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Small-town gossip and a battle of the sexes should really add up to more than Something to Talk About, especially with this much talent before the camera.
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The humanity is spread around with a quirky, generous hand, reason enough to distinguish this quiet, low-tech comedy in a season of big-bang juvenilia. Feb 15, 2018 | Full Review…
The humanity is spread around with a quirky, generous hand, reason enough to distinguish this quiet, low-tech comedy in a season of big-bang juvenilia.
David Ansen
Something to Talk About is at its best when Khouri's juicy script is adroitly mixing comedy and pathos. Feb 13, 2001 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Something to Talk About is at its best when Khouri's juicy script is adroitly mixing comedy and pathos.
Kenneth Turan
Something to Talk About never goes bad, though it does get corny in places, and it hits a couple of dull patches near the finish. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Something to Talk About never goes bad, though it does get corny in places, and it hits a couple of dull patches near the finish.
Mick LaSalle
Everything about Something to Talk About feels off by a few beats. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/4
Everything about Something to Talk About feels off by a few beats.
Mike Clark
In [Khouri's] zeal to portray a world full of male scum, she creates a morally mismatched, pandering scenario. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
In [Khouri's] zeal to portray a world full of male scum, she creates a morally mismatched, pandering scenario.
Desson Thomson
Something to Talk About is weary -- every ounce of energy and originality has long since been wrung out of this formula, and the 'twist' of having the leads already married doesn't do much to spice up things. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Something to Talk About is weary -- every ounce of energy and originality has long since been wrung out of this formula, and the 'twist' of having the leads already married doesn't do much to spice up things.
James Berardinelli
A few stray moments of wit mired amidst a low-key and sleep-inducing presentation. Apr 3, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
A few stray moments of wit mired amidst a low-key and sleep-inducing presentation.
Scott Weinberg
Dull, dumb and listless. Jan 9, 2004 | Rating: 1/5
Dull, dumb and listless.
Randy Shulman
Horrible "romantic comedy." Great message for the ladies: Forgive your cheating husband because that's the best you can do. Jul 14, 2003 | Rating: 0/5
Horrible "romantic comedy." Great message for the ladies: Forgive your cheating husband because that's the best you can do.
Fred Topel
Focuses on the personal renewal of a woman after the break-up of her marriage. Aug 29, 2002 | Full Review…
Focuses on the personal renewal of a woman after the break-up of her marriage.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
The script by Callie Khouri is somewhat disjointed in structure. Jun 5, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The script by Callie Khouri is somewhat disjointed in structure.
Dwayne E. Leslie
An especially painful letdown Jul 8, 2001 | Rating: 2/5
An especially painful letdown
Christopher Null
Quite a downer of a movie for a 90's Julia Roberts! It's not awful, and generally I like small town settings and I'm not someone who thinks movies need to be "nice" either, as that's not how life is. I don't know why I really couldn't take to this that much. The cast are good (well, aside from the daughter. Geez. I actually wondered if she was meant to be special needs in her earlier scenes, but , no, just bad acting it seems).
Super Reviewer
Adorable movie. Lots of good acting. The relationship between Roberts' and Sedgwick's characters reminded me of my sister and I's.
Clever and excellent characterisations elevate the familiar story of how Julia Roberts's life is thrown into turmoil when she discovers that husband Dennis Quaid has been cheating on her. Director Lasse Hallstrom did a good job with this drama movie. He certainly seemed fascinated in making a movie which shows how dysfunctional a family really can be, and on more than one level in this film. Roberts and Kyra Sedgwick are perfect choices of casting as sisters because they look like they could actually be related - imagine they are separated at birth.
Good cast. Movie about a woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her. She goes home to her parents to re-evaluate her life.
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