Jackie & Ryan2015
Jackie & Ryan (2015)
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Cast
as Ryan Brenner
as Jackie Laurel
as Virginia
as Miriam
as Cowboy's Brother
as Lia
as Kid
as Store Clerk
as Matt Ridenour
as Tweed Cap
as Old Lady
as Anne Liechty-Old Lady
as Festival Vendor
as Music Store Mom
as Clerk
as Sofie
as Sofie
as Coffee Shop Manager
as Coffee Shop Manager
as Girl on the Bike
as Woman in the Party
as Wes
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Critic Reviews for Jackie & Ryan
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (8)
The film feels like an uncomfortable hodgepodge of styles and tones - gritty and realistic when it's following Ryan, awkwardly staged when it's following Jackie.
If a film based on author Nicholas Sparks' work is like an over-produced power ballad with a 128-piece orchestra, writer/director Ami Canaan Mann's "Jackie & Ryan" is the non-ironic acoustic guitar cover of the same tune.
"Jackie & Ryan" may prove too low-key and deliberately paced for less patient viewers, but distinct pleasures are to be had from this compactly shot film's easy rhythms, affecting tone and nicely modulated performances.
You anticipate a cheap, sentimental ending. But it is not to be, and the movie is much the better for it.
The section of the movie that should offer a climactic rush, however fleeting, feels instead more like falling action, or even a postscript.
Jackie & Ryan is a sort of low-rent Nicholas Sparks romance that, for want of a better way to put it, never generates any sparks of its own.
Audience Reviews for Jackie & Ryan
I watched a little off this, but it is painfully slow and drags. Dull more than bad. I turned it off after 40 minutes. Updated 30/4/18 - on a bit of a Katherine Heigl kick and decided to rewatch this. Still extremely slow, especially the opening scenes, but I liked it better on a second watch. Definitely more slice of life than amazing story, but it is nice and I liked the ending.
Super Reviewer
That was a good movie. I liked it. I enjoyed it. It was a good relaxing movie, you know? Fun to watch... It has a good ending. Katherine Heigl was good in it. - She did a good job.
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Jackie & Ryan Quotes
| Ryan Brenner: | Where am I gonna go? How am I gonna get there? |