America's Sweethearts (2001)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 98
Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 32
Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 122,213
Movie Info
Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring Roth's longtime friend Julia Roberts. Crystal stars as Lee, a studio publicist desperately trying to keep several facts secret from reporters during a high-profile motion picture's press junket. Among the developments that Lee is trying to obscure from view: the film's eccentric director (Christopher Walken) has essentially hijacked the $87 million movie and isn't allowing
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Cast
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Julia Roberts
Kiki Harrison -
Billy Crystal
Lee Phillips -
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Gwen Harrison -
John Cusack
Eddie Thomas -
Hank Azaria
Hector -
Stanley Tucci
Dave Kingman -
Christopher Walken
Hal Weidmann -
Alan Arkin
Wellness Guide -
Seth Green
Danny Wax -
Scott Zeller
Davis -
Larry King
Himself -
Steve Pink
Limo Driver -
Rainn Wilson
Dave O'Hanlon -
Eric Balfour
Security Guard -
Marty Belafsky
Security Guard -
Keri Lynn Pratt
Leaf -
Maria Canals
Adinah -
Charley Steiner
Nevada Anchorman -
Shaun Robinson
Nevada Anchorwoman -
Jeff Michael
Network Anchor -
Siblia Vargas
Reporter -
Jane Yamamoto
Reporter On Patio -
Byron Allen
Himself -
Wendy Schenker
Maura Klein -
Jim Ferguson
Mort Josephson -
Lisa Joyner
Laura Messinger -
Patrick Stoner
Bob -
Sam Rubin
Ken -
Susan Katz
Interviewer -
Amber Barretto
Alison -
Alexander Enberg
Larry King Producer -
Sarah Loew
Larry King Producer -
Joseph Feingold
Judge -
Sherry Jennings
Bar Hostess -
Julie Sorrels
Mother -
Austin L. Sorrels
Little Boy -
Julie Wagner
Caller #1 -
Leilani Muenter
Caller #2 -
Dimitri Moraitis
Agent -
Shawn Driscoll
Sean -
Misti See
Misti -
Gail Laskowski
Gail -
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All Critics (156) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (98) | DVD (21)
The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name.
Top CriticThe premise falters along with much of the shtick.
Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous.
America's Sweethearts is a balloon, all right -- a lead one.
A boring, brain-dead flop.
Too cynically slick and emotionally shallow.
So-so sitcom-like story of estranged movie stars.
...an egregiously bland piece of work that ultimately makes certain sitcoms look deep by comparison.
Lacking originality or true wit, this mildly amusing but utterly banal comedy again demonstrates that Joe Roth is not much of a director and that Billy Crystal can do only one thing as an actor--be Billy Crystal.
Could have been more with such a great cast, but still manages to entertain.
It gets a little funnier toward the end, making up for the draggy first half . . . However, the shelf-life of this Sweetheart should be short indeed.
A loose-limbed, occasionally funny movie of many madly spinning teacups sunk by uninvested-in characters and niggling, wrongheaded details.
Inevitably there are some funny moments, and of course this is an endlessly watchable cast. But the movie is just too over-the-top.
The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.
When it peeks behind the scenes, the movie can be very, very funny.
A timely comedy that pokes fun at all things Hollywood.
Disappointment comes from the sense that the picture started off with the promise of being something different, maybe even something scathing, but then settles for something rather routine.
The fact that this movie contains some of the most annoying, mannered actors on film today and still remains painless is quite a feat.
Its potential as a spicy spoof of Hollywood's incestuous relation with the entertainment press has been Ephroned away in favor of bland romantic comedy.
The writers turn out to be brandishing butter knives instead of scalpels. ... the movie's real surprise is the feisty, vigorous turn by Zeta-Jones, who throws off zingers with grace and style.
Quando a projeção chega ao fim, a pergunta que nos surge à mente é: 'Tá, e daí?'.
There have been a lot of movies about how fake Hollywood is, but this is the fake Hollywood movie about how fake Hollywood is.
Joe Roth steps back into the director's chair after nearly a decade and AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS suffers the same diffused focus that his earlier efforts. After the tightly-paced opening, the film flounders until all the major players have been introduced.
The movie is intended as an effervescent fizz; instead, it's a fizzle. What should have been a knockout punch turns out to be more of a gentle poke in the ribs.
Audience Reviews for America's Sweethearts
Super Reviewer
Not bad but not so good either. America's Sweethearts is one of those movies where if you've seen the preview, you've seen the movie. The story was kinda dull and boring at times. Hank Azaria's accent was one the ugliest accent I've heard before, it was truly hilarious to hear him speak. The ending was good though.
America's favorite couple, in movies as well as in real life, has broken up: Gwen has fallen in love with Latin actor Hector, Eddie can't take it no more and has taken quite some time off in the lush gardens of a leading wellness guru. But there is a problem: The latest movie of Gwen & Eddie ("Time over Time") is being held hostage by its director Hal Weidmann. His only request is that it is shown to the press first, not even producer and studio boss David Kingman may take a look at it. Kingman now entrusts PR wizard Lee Philips, whom he just had fired, to organize a press junket that none of the journalists will ever forget - just to distract the press from the fact that the film itself won't be shown at all. Therefore, Lee somehow has to bring Gwen and Eddie back together, at least for that one weekend, in a lonely hotel resort in the Nevada desert. Not quite everything works out the way Lee wanted it to, since Gwen's sister and assistant Kiki also has a mind of her own.
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