Feeling Minnesota

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Feeling Minnesota

R

1996

1h 35m

Comedy

Drama

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Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

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Critics Consensus

Clumsily derivative, shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast, Feeling Minnesota sets out for romantic comedy and gets irrevocably lost along the way.

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Anne Billson

Daily Telegraph (UK)

11/27/2017

Steven Baigelman, who wrote and directed, aims for offbeat, flippant Tarantino-esque lowlife kicks but misses the mark on every count, having no feel for characters, plot, action or dialogue.

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Adam Mars-Jones

Independent (UK)

11/14/2017

Keanu Reeves does his usual impression of a man trying to get to grips with some really difficult arithmetic. Like him, the movie is dim-witted, bland to the taste and, all in all, rather a waste of space.

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Emanuel Levy

Variety

07/01/2006

1/4

Everything in and about Baigelman's debut is irritatingly derivative: second-hand plot, small-time characters, limited and movieish vision, and bad performances for Reeves and Diaz.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

01/06/2006

3/5

Caffeinated Clint

Moviehole

11/18/2003

1/5

Might help you get to sleep at night?

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

10/10/2003

1/5

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jul 22

Funny in 1 hour and 35 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $3,100,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Selle O

01/11/2025

This was a fun movie. I enjoyed it. The acting was good. Both Keanu and Vincent were great with the physical comedy. Keanu & Cameron have great chemistry. Wish Keanu would take on more romantic lead roles. He's good at it.

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07/09/2021

Pretty underrated movie, reminds me of Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary. The comedy is pretty subdued, so maybe it's easy to misread the tone of the flick. I think both d'Onofrio and Reeves excel at physical comedy here, and Diaz isn't nearly as bad as some of the other critiques seem to suggest. If you generally enjoy a melancholic Midwestern milieu, somewhat quirky comedy and an unlikely love story of some ordinary, perhaps downtrodden, people, this is the movie for you. As a cherry on top in this grunge romance, an appearance from Courtney Love just gives the film that extra hint of self-irony.

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09/04/2020

I loved this movie!!! I remember seeing in it 96 and then didn't see anything about it till a year ago.

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jona i

06/10/2020

So clumsy that it takes a long time to figure out there is even a plot afoot; and still, it meanders incessantly. Small-time, stupid characters.

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04/24/2019

Feeling Minnesota is such a dumb movie. I wonder how many people have watched just because it's Keanu. It's the lamest movie ever.

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Synopsis

Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

Director: Steven Baigelman
Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
Screenwriter: Steven Baigelman
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Production Co: Fine Line Features, Jersey Films
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 13, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.1M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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