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04/23/09
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
Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack.
12/09/08
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10/18/08
Offers up some zinger lines in the trenches of Sin City but fails to live up to its ingenious concept.
10/18/08
A very darkly humorous film.
10/18/08
Top CriticMatthew 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
Top CriticHopelessly uneven yet admittedly entertaining...
10/06/08
This unromantic comedy is something less than a sure bet. For some reason, you get the impression that it doesn't live up to the promise of its premise.
07/04/08
This vulgar film, replete with vile language and graphic descriptions of sex acts, degrades our culture. Even George Carlin might find it offensive.
07/03/08
Broderick’s sunny spin on the deeply flawed Taylor is interesting but eventually defies belief. In the third act, Finding Amanda loses steam altogether.
06/30/08
Top CriticThough Finding Amanda's story reaches a reasonably satisfying conclusion, the empty characters at its center make the whole thing feel like a waste.
06/29/08
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
Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person.
06/27/08
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 CriticTolan writes regularly for smart shows like Rescue Me, but his best instincts deserted him when he set his sights on the big screen for the first time.
06/27/08
Top CriticWritten with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess.
06/27/08
Top CriticWriter-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
Too much of Peter Tolan's movie takes up Taylor's self-absorption as if it's actually interesting.
06/27/08
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 CriticThis cloying comedy is barely enlivened by its talented stars who both deserve much better.
06/27/08
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