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
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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. Full Review |
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Offers up some zinger lines in the trenches of Sin City but fails to live up to its ingenious concept. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A very darkly humorous film. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Hopelessly uneven yet admittedly entertaining... Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1/10 |
This vulgar film, replete with vile language and graphic descriptions of sex acts, degrades our culture. Even George Carlin might find it offensive. Full Review |
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Broderick’s sunny spin on the deeply flawed Taylor is interesting but eventually defies belief. In the third act, Finding Amanda loses steam altogether. Full Review |
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Though Finding Amanda's story reaches a reasonably satisfying conclusion, the empty characters at its center make the whole thing feel like a waste. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Much 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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Tolan 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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Written with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Too much of Peter Tolan's movie takes up Taylor's self-absorption as if it's actually interesting. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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.
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This cloying comedy is barely enlivened by its talented stars who both deserve much better. Full Review |
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