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10/18/08
Finding Amanda (2008)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:17
Rotten:23
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Despite a charming turn by Matthew Broderick, Finding Amanda is too flimsily executed to succeed as a dark comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jun 27, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $31,340
Synopsis: From director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me, comes Finding Amanda, a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical comedy about the compulsions we can’t shake, and the... [More]
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow, Maura Tierney, Peter Facinelli
Director: Peter Tolan
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Reviews for Finding Amanda
The familiar premise here has sharp fangs, unsparing wit and a knockout performance by Brittany Snow as the round-heeled 20-year-old.
06/27/08
Finding Amanda has its wispy charms, including a funny scene when the ecstasy Taylor pops begins to kick in, and later when he encounters a pimp with showbiz aspirations.
06/26/08
Amanda is a generously funny, sharp-edged comedy with unusual promise, and to watch it grow a conscience when clearly the film needed more generous helpings of acid is one of the year's great mysteries.
06/26/08
Hopelessly uneven yet admittedly entertaining...
10/06/08
A fun look at Vegas that imbues the seediness of the setting with a sense of innocence and warmth that might take some by surprise.
06/24/08
By keeping the tone light and the players human (Steve Coogan has a nice turn as a greasy casino host), and never, ever romanticizing the addict, Finding Amanda comes by its heartbreak honestly.
06/26/08
A breakthrough for Brittany Snow who shows she can do much more than horrible remakes and teen comedies...
06/20/08
Writer-director Peter Tolan has glibness down pat, but can't quite wring the intended pathos from his characters' desperate lives. He does, however, give Broderick his best part since Election.
06/27/08
Spot-on casting of Brittany Snow in the title role makes the fun movie with a serious turn both entertaining and credible.
06/10/08
A very darkly humorous film.
10/18/08
Top CriticMuch of Finding Amanda doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at its best the still-boyish Broderick suggests his most famous character, Ferris Bueller, going through a midlife crisis.
06/27/08
Top CriticIt's amusing but facile, reasonably clever but hopelessly glib.
06/26/08
Doesn't have a nuance in it, but it's pretty consistently amusing in its latter-day Woody Allen way. For most of the way, its morals are happily, believably wrong, but all bad things must come to an end.
06/27/08
Matthew Broderick regains his cinematic stride as a morosely wise-cracking television producer on the skids, ably abetted by Maura Tierney as his much-put-upon wife and Brittany Snow as his perky prostitute niece.
10/18/08
Set mostly in Las Vegas, Finding Amanda offers a vision of confused Americans losing their already shaky bearings in the world’s gaudiest honky-tonk.
06/27/08
Top CriticThe interplay between Broderick and Snow ultimately make Finding Amanda more enjoyable than it should be.
06/26/08
Amanda can never find a tone. It opens with a scene-reading (Taylor is a writer on a hacky TV show) that produces yawns, where our lead character is the only one that laughs. It's prophetic.
06/27/08
The film's tone shifts jarringly from superficial broad comedy to something far darker. And the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold scenario is as old as the profession itself.
06/26/08
Too much of Peter Tolan's movie takes up Taylor's self-absorption as if it's actually interesting.
06/27/08
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