Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Shaking the Tree is an ensemble dramedy about four male friends living in Chicago, pushing 30, who help each other through a series of crises. Barry (Arye Gross) is a real estate salesman and a huge White Sox fan who's nervous about his impending wedding to Michelle (Christina Haag). When he presses her about her sexual past, he finds out she once slept with one of his pals. Duke (Steven Wilde, who co-wrote the script with director Duane B. Clark) was forced to give up boxing due to an injury,
Jun 1, 1991 Wide
Apr 23, 1992
Academy Entertainment
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)
If you've nothing else to do, it goes down easily, but don't expect much more.
The characters and their problems are both so cliched that it makes you wonder if the filmmakers had ever seen a movie before; didn't they realize how stunningly unoriginal, how worn out and overused, this material was?
That Clark's movie isn't livelier, spunkier and more original is truly a shame because the players are all so enjoyable.
A few cliched scenes grate, but one looks forward to seeing what Clark will do next; he shows a welcome determination to make films that illuminate out lives.
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