RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
RT's Blu-ray HQ
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / The Man Who Copied
The Man Who Copied

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
Bookmark and Share

The Man Who Copied (2005)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
65 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:20

Rotten:11

Average Rating:6.1/10

Consensus: Though it has some nice moments, The Man Who Copied spins out of control by the second half and wears out its welcome.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some brief nudity.

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Apr 22, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: Comic strip fantasy and glum working day reality mix in this unusual Brazilian film. André (Lázaro Ramos) works making photocopies at a stationary store, shooting the breeze with his sexy co-worker... Comic strip fantasy and glum working day reality mix in this unusual Brazilian film. André (Lázaro Ramos) works making photocopies at a stationary store, shooting the breeze with his sexy co-worker Marinês (Luana Piovani) and spending his nights drawing comics and spying on neighborhood good girl Sylvia (Leandra Leal). He's too shy and poor to ask Sylvia out, until he hits on the idea of making counterfeit money with the color copier after business hours. Cardoso (Pedro Cardoso), the equally poor, would-be lover of Marinês, helps with the scam. When André realizes Sylvia's loathsome father is spying on her in the shower, he realizes he needs to rob an armored car in order to finance an escape to Rio de Janeiro for the four of them. More windfalls and weirdness develop as romance slowly blossoms between Andre and Sylvia, and Marinês and Cardoso, and blackmail, murder, and other crimes take hold. This film is definitely attention grabbing, and Ramos is great as the shy André, holding fast to audience sympathy and attention with a minimum of sympathetic characterization. Director Jorge Furtado (in his feature film debut) uses the copier motif in some interestingly post-modern ways via the art of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, the obsessions of Hitchcock (as in REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO) and scenes of childhood depicted by crude animation. He effectively portrays a rarely seen economic class strata--the minimum wage slaves who manage a decent apartment and food, but not much beyond that--then dares to push the envelope even further. [More]

Starring: Lazaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani, Pedro Cardoso

Starring: Lazaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani, Pedro Cardoso

Director: Jorge Furtado

Director: Jorge Furtado
Screenwriter: Jorge Furtado
Producer: Giba Assis Brasil, Jorge Furtado
Studio: TLA Releasing

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 5 of 6

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Aug 16, 2005

No Details Exist
 
 

Reviews for The Man Who Copied

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 >> >|
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/04/09
Deborah Young
Deborah Young
Variety
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/16/07
Jessica Winter
Jessica Winter
Time Out New York

It takes a lot of wit and heart to make an engaging and ferociously funny movie out of a dull dead end job. But Brazilian director Jorge Furtado pulls it off nicely.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
06/02/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

Ultimately produces a ragged facsimile of film noir clichés.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/26/07
Kevin Lally
Kevin Lally
Film Journal International
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
09/26/05
AV Club
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

has enough heart to make most hopeless romantics weep with joy.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
09/07/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
09/04/05
Boston Phoenix
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
07/29/05
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/09/05
Houston Chronicle
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The tone shifts from a quiet little love story to a caper film, which doesn't exactly fit together but both halves of the movie are entertaining.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
07/08/05
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

The Man Who Copied unfolds into a movie with a split personality, and the second half is no reproduction of the first.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
07/07/05
Mario Tarradell
Mario Tarradell
Dallas Morning News
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The script's shifts of tone are never smoothly melded, and the lethargic pacing drags the story out mercilessly.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/06/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

This Brazilian film starts as a quirky romantic comedy before suddenly becoming a violent crime drama. It's a radical turn, so much so that it almost goes over a cliff.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
06/30/05
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The Brazilian romantic comedy careens down such an elaborately entertaining route that I hesitate to call it a romantic comedy. It's funny all the way, but romance doesn't enter the picture until the picture is almost over.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
06/30/05
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Furtado's sense of irony is a little bit on the obvious side, but at least it strengthens the film's underlying message.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
06/28/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Even after it loses its way, the movie suggests a world where anything can happen and no one -- certainly not the girl of one's dreams -- is quite who he or she seems to be.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
06/24/05
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Though South American in origin, The Man Who Copied has a universal feel that, language notwithstanding, could be from anywhere.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
06/14/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Don't let the unwieldy title throw you - The Man Who Copied is unusual, deft and (mostly) delightful

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
06/06/05
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Remains never better than fair to middling pleasant.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
06/03/05
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 >> >|
See All

More DVDs

Close
Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
15% 15% The Ugly Truth
98% 98% Up
36% 36% G.I. Joe: The Rise of …
52% 52% The Taking of Pelham 1…
45% 45% Ice Age: Dawn of the D…

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
36% 36% Angels & Demons
68% 68% Funny People
25% 25% Four Christmases
45% 45% Shorts

More New Releases…

See All

RT On Current TV

The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current TV

DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196 | More...

Learn how you can be part of the show

More...

What’s Hot On RT

Total Recall

Total Recall

John Travolta's top reviewed movies

Disney Countdown

Disney Countdown

Look back on Disney's best animated movies!

RT's Gift Guide

RT's Gift Guide

Give the best movies, gear, and more!

What's Coming Out

What's Coming Out

Find movies for the holiday weekend!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Weekly Ketchup: Zombieland 2 in 3D?
0
  • First Look (Sort Of) at New Nightmare's Freddy Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com
24
  • First Look at Shrek Forever After Source: USA Today
48
  • Woody Harrelson Will Battle Zombies in 3-D Source: Moviehole
26
  • Natalie Portman Says Kat Denning Is in Thor Source: MTV
34
  • Disney Restructuring Has Broad Implications Source: Los Angeles Times
10
  • Joel Silver Talks Ninja Assassin, Sgt. Rock, Lobo, and More Source: Collider.com
1
  • Weekly Ketchup: Idris Elba cast in Thor, more Spider-Man 4 rumors
124
  • Idris Elba Joins Thor Source: Hollywood Reporter
112
  • Jackass 3D Coming in 2010? Source: Collider.com
32
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: New Moon Shatters Records
179
  • Total Recall: John Travolta's Best Movies
87
  • Weekly Ketchup: Idris Elba cast in Thor, more Spider-Man 4 rumors
62
  • 5 Facts About The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
58
  • Ban Them All! 10 Infamously Controversial Movies
53
  • Critics Consensus: Flee From Ninja Assassin
43
  • WB offers DVD to Blu-ray Trade-In Program
32
  • Friday Harvest: The Road, Avatar, and more!
24
  • RT's Blu-ray Picks from WB
21
  • Five Favorite Films With Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer
21
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
15
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
10
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
20
  • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
7
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
15
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
20
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
8
  • Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film
28
  • Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine; Possible Sequel
28
  • Duncan Jones talks Moon, Sam Rockwell, and Mute
14
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • The Man Who Copied at Rotten Tomatoes
  • The Man Who Copied at AskMen

Fresh Links

Featured
Wes Anderson on Fox
Wes Anderson on Fox External Link

The director talks about puppetry perfection and his film, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Animated Oscar?
Animated Oscar? External Link

Hollywood.com ponders whether or not an animated film could win Best Picture.

TIME's Holiday Movie Preview
TIME's Holiday Movie Preview External Link

Richard Corliss previews the season's best offerings and hottest tickets.

Scenic Routes
Scenic Routes External Link

The AV Club's Mike D'Angelo airs his beefs with Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.

Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Follow RT on Twitter External Link

Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.