If I Were You (2013)
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 7
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Madelyn Reid (Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden) accidentally learns of her husband's infidelity when she saves his sexy young mistress (Talk to Her's Leonor Watling) from a bungled suicide attempt. When her unsuspecting young rival suggests the two new "best friends" take each other's advice - on everything - Madelyn sees an opportunity to seize the upper hand. But the plan backfires when Lucy, an aspiring actress, insists Madelyn keep her end of the bargain - and orders her to star as
Mar 15, 2012 Limited
May 7, 2013
$9.2k
Paragraph Pictures
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (9)
"If I Were You'' has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging.
Top CriticHarden is a wonderful actress but struggles to find the complexity in so strained a situation.
Buried in the bloat of Joan Carr-Wiggin's interminable "If I Were You" are the seeds of what might have been a lean, snappy farce about duplicitous, adulterous games.
Bloody awful.
The people responsible for a hapless load of bunk called If I Were You can only be described as delusional. They think they have made an actual movie, when nothing in it qualifies.
A screwball comedy for Canadians-not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get.
An odd little duck of a film [that] kicks around enjoyably for a while in the same sandbox as some of Woody Allen's mid-career farces, before eventually pivoting and skipping off into less rewarding territory.
A strangled endeavor that's 30 minutes too long and short-sheeted in the laugh department. Perhaps it was a blast to make, but to sit through the feature requires an extraordinary amount of patience.
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