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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] for sexual content, language and some drug use

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... 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 down the aisle in her wedding gown, she is at the funeral of her fiancé, Grady, following his accidental death on a trip meant to be his bachelor party. To make ends meet, Gray puts her things in storage and moves in with Grady's roommates, levelheaded and attentive Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and quirky yet lovable Sam (Kevin Smith). With childhood friend Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) in from L.A. and crashing on the couch, it's a full house. Inhabiting Grady's old room, Gray soon learns that her fiancé had been keeping some big secrets from her and may not have been the man she thought he was. Perhaps more importantly, she discovers some surprising things about herself, and her ability to heal and love again. Each of the characters in this film has to find a way to survive the devastating loss of a man who held them all together. Garner effectively conveys Gray's heartbreak and confusion without going over the top. As Fritz, Olyphant pulls off the role of the mystery man who is always charming but often misunderstood. Jaeger is earnest and heartfelt as Grady's roommate and business partner. But Smith is the scene-stealer here, with deadpan delivery and great timing as a Celestial Seasonings employee spouting philosophical quotes from the herbal tea company's packaging. Juliette Lewis appears as a sexy, slightly flaky, Californian massage therapist who is also a skeleton in Grady's closet. [More]

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Smith

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Smith, Sonja Bennett, Yorgo Constantine, Sam Jaeger, Fiona Shaw

Director: Susannah Grant

Director: Susannah Grant
Producer: Jenno Topping
Composer: BT, Tommy Stinson
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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The poor man's Julia Roberts, Garner boasts a similar coltish, awkward physicality and vaguely aquatic mouth... just none of the Movie-Star charisma.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
01/30/07
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

Catch and Release is another middle-of-the-road romantic dramedy, neither offensively bad nor terribly inspiring either, despite its best efforts.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
01/30/07
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

It's an orgy of product placement that gives You've Got Mail a run for the money.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
01/30/07
Pete Vonder Haar
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat

If you're looking for a predictable but inoffensive film, "Catch and Release" is about as middle-of-the-road as you can get.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
01/29/07
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

The star of TV's Alias, Garner would have been wise to use a false name.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
01/29/07
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

We left this giggling over all of the bad fishing jokes we could use in our review of the film, which is telling... it's certainly not the catch of the day.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
01/29/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

The predictable concept strains credulity. Throw it back!

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
01/29/07
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
www.susangranger.com

Romantic comedies lately are surpassing the threshold of good taste, with death brought into the equation more often. Though Susannah Grant showed some insight into the plight of troubled women through her scripts for "Erin Brockovich" and "In Her Shoes,"

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
01/29/07
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

The sense of New Age romantic serendipity and Zen whimsy writer/director Grant strives to invoke in 'Catch and Release' just doesn't register.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/29/07
John P. McCarthy
John P. McCarthy
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Why Jennifer Garner was eager to play the lead in this film is anybody's guess.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/29/07
Shirley Sealy
Shirley Sealy
Film Journal International

Complete misfire.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
01/27/07
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

The floundering Catch and Release is not a keeper.

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
01/27/07
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

A strange fish of a film, Susannah Grant's directorial debut Catch and Release glitters and reeks.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/27/07
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

If anyone could make death a delight, it's Jennifer Garner.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment Comment
01/26/07
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

The kind of movie that just can't seem to have enough annoying self-absorbed people around to rattle on about their life woes. Catch this release at your own peril.

Full Review Source: Maxim | comment Comment
01/26/07
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Maxim

It's such a bland example of its genre, it may as well have been titled A Romantic Drama Starring Jennifer Garner.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
01/26/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Premiere Magazine

Unable to work as a comedy, romance or drama, this film isn't to catch or release. Best to just let this one swim on by.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
01/26/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

The film suffers from a style that settles for pleasant or touching at the cost of spontaneous or impassioned. Too bad, because Ms. Garner is a genuinely pleasing presence.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
01/26/07
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Given the film's complicated and ambitious opening, it's that more disappointing when it settles into the rut of 'happily ever after' cliches.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/26/07
Angel Cohn
Angel Cohn
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Were it not for [Kevin] Smith's mildly amusing antics, it might have been necessary to attach a warning to the movie about the dangers of watching it whilst operating heavy machinery.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
01/26/07
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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