Jennifer Garner may possess the hardest working eyebrows in show business, but Kevin Smith gets the acting kudos in this bittersweet romance.
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01/25/07
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Catch and Release (2007)
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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:28
Rotten:102
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: A romantic dramedy with boring, stock characters and contrived situations.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: , Death, Romance, Theatrical Release, Weddings
Theatrical Release:2007-Winter
Box Office: $15,269,668
Synopsis: Screenwriter Susannah Grant makes her directorial debut in this tale of love, loss, and finding new love. Gray Wheeler's (Jennifer Garner) wedding day is not going as planned. Instead of walking... [More]
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Smith
Director: Susannah Grant
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Reviews for Catch and Release
By the conclusion of the film, Catch and Release transformed itself from a risk-taking romantic comedy with a darkly humorous lining into a stereotypically syrupy outing...
02/28/08
For the most part, Catch And Release is involving and occasionally endearing.
01/26/07
A big-hearted light-headed story that isn't as deep as it wants to be, but still manages to entertain.
01/26/07
Even with Smith involved, Catch and Release isn't the sort of film a guy would generally go to see alone, but it does make for a decent date movie. She'll enjoy the romantic elements and he'll likely find it unobjectionably entertaining.
06/25/07
...nothing particularly noteworthy or innovative...
06/04/07
A film that focus on real-life possibilities and whose characters traverse the highs and lows of their lives. The perfect Valentine Date Movie.
01/26/07
The multiple story threads make it a little unfocused from a thematic standpoint, but it's a generally well-executed lark, neither too serious nor too silly for its subject matter.
05/07/07
Much, much better than it has any right to be.
02/03/07
If anyone could make death a delight, it's Jennifer Garner.
01/26/07
A well-acted, truthfully written film -- there's just too much of it (about 20 minutes too much).
02/03/07
Catch and Release seems both too long (at nearly two hours) and too short (with under-developed plot lines). Still, you may enjoy Gray and Sam, and even Fritz, enough to stay involved.
01/26/07
Writer-director Susannah Grant, of Erin Brockovich fame, mixes in the funny with the sappy. All in all, a good date movie with a nice twist -- even if you saw it coming.
01/26/07
...A likable romantic comedy that delivers enough laughs and star appeal to fare reasonably well in the date-movie department, even if it doesn't entirely live up to its ambitions.
10/23/06
Garner and [writer/director] Grant work hard to push the picture into unexplored territory, and the cringe-worthy moments are easy to overlook.
01/26/07
Top Critic...the rare chick flick that defines its heroine on her own terms, not in terms of the husband or boyfriend she wants or has.
01/25/07
Neither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, Catch and Release, the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant, is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable charm.
01/26/07
[Garner] is moving up the likeability ladder to Sandra Bullock/Julia Roberts levels.
02/21/07
Viewers may find its mix of pathos and humor loose and lumpy, but then isn't that how life is?
01/25/07
[B]eautifully crafted... creates an aching loveliness of psychic empty space...
01/25/07
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