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10/11/02
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Just a Kiss (2002)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:11
Rotten:49
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
Theatrical Release:Sep 27, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack,... [More]
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard
Director: Fisher Stevens
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Reviews for Just a Kiss
Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people. But it is set in a world that is very, very far from the one most of us inhabit.
10/10/02
Just a Kiss is a just a waste.
10/09/02
I’d have to say the star and director are the big problems here.
10/08/02
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10/05/02
So pretentious and off-putting, that even without annoying gimmicks and misplaced humor it would be hard to find it anything but irritating.
10/04/02
Can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality.
10/04/02
Clumsily written and numbly performed comedy of yammers.
10/04/02
When the film isn't uncomfortably contrived it's just downright offensive.
10/04/02
A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander, some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story.
10/04/02
Top CriticIt's an old story, but a lively script, sharp acting and partially animated interludes make Just a Kiss seem minty fresh.
10/04/02
Puts on airs of a Hal Hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself.
10/04/02
Aggressively unfunny, with jokes about suicide attempts and fatal airplane crashes.
10/04/02
Top CriticBreen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting.
10/04/02
None of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life, unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter.
10/04/02
[Stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits.
10/04/02
Talkiness isn't necessarily bad, but the dialogue frequently misses the mark.
10/04/02
Top CriticThis one makes Friends look like high art.
10/04/02
Top CriticIt's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate.
10/04/02
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