... this is basically just a sitcom.
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05/17/04
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Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:28
Rotten:57
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
Theatrical Release:May 14, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $11,827,301
Synopsis: Things are looking bleak for Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY and BOOTY CALL). His company is firing people left and right and his heartless fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) has just taken... [More]
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Esposito
Director: Daniel Taplitz
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Reviews for Breakin' All the Rules
Top CriticBreakin' transcends cliches thanks to Jamie Foxx's irreverence and charm
05/17/04
Laden with misunderstandings, contrived situations, and terrible characterizations. Even Foxx's charisma can't save this one.
05/17/04
Foxx , Union, Chestnut and MacNicol deserve to be A-list stars much more than any Tom (Cruise), Dick (Gere) or Halle (Berry).
05/17/04
A black-cast romantic comedy that derives its humor from character and plot development rather than from cliched notions of race-based uproariousness...
05/17/04
Foxx and friends are broken by this laughless comedy
05/16/04
How is Breakin' All the Rules different from all the countless other romantic comedies specializing in misunderstandings and mistaken identities? It isn't.
05/15/04
A leaden daisy-chain of mistaken identity that holds the interest of the characters much longer than it does the audience's in watching it or mine in explaining it.
05/15/04
You wouldn't think a movie with this much plot could be this dull, but you'd be wrong.
05/15/04
Movie, we need to talk. I don't think it's working out. I'll just tell you straight -- I've been seeing other movies.
05/14/04
Foxx’s latest film lives up to its title by deconstructing sex comedies and bringing a much needed dose of intelligence to a typically slow-witted genre.
05/14/04
No movie this stupid should need a plot synopsis this complicated.
05/14/04
Top CriticA movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters, including a leading man viewers can never really warm up to.
05/14/04
A cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce.
05/14/04
Top CriticIf the movie were 10 minutes longer, the mix-ups might grind viewers down, but director Daniel Taplitz knows how to juggle the subplots he's given.
05/14/04
Top CriticTV-trained writer-director Daniel Taplitz displays little imagination and almost no sense of comic timing.
05/14/04
In many ways a throwback to the era of Doris Day and Jack Lemmon movies.
05/14/04
Like a too-precisely choreographed dance, it feels lifeless.
05/14/04
Writer and director Daniel Taplitz piles on the convolutions in an overripe comedy of sitcom stock characters and bad jokes.
05/14/04
Top CriticThis is a romantic comedy with heart (broken and otherwise), and in the end, that's all that matters.
05/14/04
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