Kline alone provides the film with any of its non-musical energy
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07/01/04
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De-Lovely (2004)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:74
Rotten:77
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Musical numbers save movie from cliches.
Theatrical Release:Jul 2, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $13,148,028
Synopsis: Directed by Irwin Winkler, DE-LOVELY depicts the life of the great American composer Cole Porter (Kevin Kline). Despite his sexual preference for men, Porter found inspiration and virtually... [More]
Starring: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Keith Allen
Director: Irwin Winkler
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Reviews for De-Lovely
De-Lovely is Di-Sapointing.
07/01/04
You have the creepy sense of watching adult children (with the singular exception of Mr. Kline, who can surmount any disaster) dressed up in period costume at a school pageant.
07/01/04
Top CriticA refreshing change from Hollywood's typical wages-of-sin sermon.
07/01/04
Top CriticLike a Porter song, De-Lovely has melancholy, wit and style to burn.
07/01/04
Top CriticThe kind of escapist entertainment that has one hunting for an escape route.
07/01/04
Top CriticSeeing fresh, not necessarily traditional renditions of 30 classic Porter tunes done by the likes of Costello, Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, Lemar, Natalie Cole and Robbie Williams was a real treat.
07/01/04
Remarkably touching and engrossing.
07/01/04
Kline is charming and captivating. He is one of the most underrated actors in the business today
07/01/04
A captivating musical.
07/01/04
Alanis Moresette in a sailor suit singing 'Anything Goes?' Jeez! It works, though.
07/01/04
Successfully intimate, underwhelming (for the most part) musically, at times as difficult as their relationship, the film also has a very sweet sense to it.
06/30/04
As a bio-pic, De-Lovely is pretty standard, run-of-the-mill stuff. However, as a 'best hits' collection of Cole Porter's music, it is unparalleled.
06/30/04
Top CriticIt's hard not be entertained by two dozen of Cole's best, sung winningly, if not always brilliantly, by a company that includes Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and (the best, fittingly) Natalie Cole.
06/30/04
Top CriticDirector Irwin Winkler and screenwriter Jay Cocks know that Porter's songs are his story, and so they take care to weave his tunes seamlessly into their movie's structure.
06/30/04
If you're a Cole Porter fan you might like the songs in De-Lovely, but as a portrait of an unusual marriage it's de-lumbering, de-liberate and de-cidedly flat.
06/30/04
An imaginative, deconstructionist, celebratory musical biography woven together from elements of theater, meta-cinema, chamber drama and Porter's own MGM musicals.
06/30/04
A sterilization of a complicated man's life for non-entertainment purposes.
06/30/04
Something dishy and rare: a biopic about a happy, and even enchanted, man.
06/30/04
Top CriticThe musical interludes, albeit entertaining, yank the viewer out of the early 20th century. Had the film stayed in its own time, it would have been more de-lovely.
06/30/04
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