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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:2
Rotten:6
Average Rating:3.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 87 mins
Theatrical Release:Apr 11, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Freddie Prinze Jr. returns to the romantic comedy genre that made him famous with this sweet film about love between opposites. Jack (Prinze) is a New York businessman who finds his dull life... [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Taryn Manning, Kelly Rowan, Peter Stebbings
Director: Vanessa Parise
There's an overwhelming and quite repellent amount of gloss applied to the finished product, yet underneath it all are many scenes of honest emotional confession, distributed through wonderful atypical performances.
...ultimately establishes itself as an affable endeavor that benefits substantially from the charismatic work of its two leads.
Written, directed, acted-in and produced by Parise, she's proven her creds as a one-woman employment agent. But, by now, she should be picking up that directing is a weak spot.
Considering the talent assembled, the only audience draw here is the prospect of getting out of the rain.
Achieves the holy trinity of painful earnestness, combining cute animals, sick teenagers and an idealistic belief in love and goodness that's actually deceptively judgmental.
Parise no doubt intends the pic's attention to the disease -- plus animal adoption and fair trade coffee -- to be socially enlightening, but it feels suspiciously like sympathy-mongering.
Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind.
Top CriticMore farce might have served the film well; as Parise draws from a playbook of medical melodrama and romantic-comedies clichés, her moral about living outside the box becomes harder and harder to swallow.
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