Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 30
Contains some funny moments, but it's still a very lightweight comedy.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 13
Contains some funny moments, but it's still a very lightweight comedy.
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A group of likable losers try to pull of what by their standards seems like a major heist in this offbeat crime comedy, loosely based on the classic Italian caper comedy I Soliti Ignoti. A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common -- they need money, and aren't especially fussy about how they get it. Riley (William H. Macy) is a guy whose wife has been sent to jail, leaving him to look after their baby, when she's unable to pay a fine. Pero
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Luis Guzman
Cosimo -
Michael Jeter
Toto -
Patricia Clarkson
Rosalind -
Andrew Davoli
Basil -
Isaiah Washington
Leon -
William H. Macy
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Sam Rockwell
Pero -
Gabrielle Union
Michelle -
Jennifer Esposito
Carmela -
George Clooney
Jerzy
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All Critics (84) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (30) | DVD (21)
It's a bellini.
Top CriticIt doesn't quite work, but there's enough here to make us look forward to the Russos' next offering.
Collinwood seems like a series of sketches, with caricatures instead of characters.
The picture runs a mere 84 minutes, but it's no glance. It's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written, beautifully read and, finally, deeply humanizing.
The actual heist is the high point, just as in the Italian film, and so raffish and disorganized was the gang that I can see how someone might enjoy this movie, coming to it for the first time.
An infectious caper flick.
An occasionally amusing but completely disposable comedy of errors that's not nearly as funny as it thinks it is.
Collinwood is certainly one dimensional, but it's a nice dimension. Pleasant. Smile-inducing. Fun.
The film looks and sounds bright and bouncy, and it's full of reliable old comic devices like characters absurdly repeating themselves and asking incredulous questions.
Enjoyably dumb, sweet, and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky, steal a glimpse.
It's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since Christopher Walken kinda romanced Cyndi Lauper in The Opportunists.
Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny.
The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea.
You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time.
Amusing but otherwise forgettable...having a good time took precedent over making anything more than a insubstantial romp designed to entertain (the cast).
It's often faintly amusing, but the problems of the characters never become important to us, and the story never takes hold.
An entertaining diversion.
The entire point of a shaggy dog story, of course, is that it goes nowhere, and this is classic nowheresville in every sense.
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