The script here is not funny, while the cast -- though star-studded -- is perfunctory.
America's Sweethearts (2001)
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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:45
Rotten:97
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a... Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current affair, a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria). When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status and the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film's press junket. Julia Roberts costars as Kiki, Gwen's personal assistant and sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister. Once overweight and severely self-conscious, Kiki's life revolves around her sister's ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity, penned cleverly with cynical insider wit by Crystal and Peter Tolan. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars and gaggles of press together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors, eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo), maniacal studio heads, and gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story. [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Seth Green
Director: Joe Roth
Director: Joe Roth
Screenwriter: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan, Donna Roth
Producer: Susan Arnold, Billy Crystal
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Reviews for America's Sweethearts
Inevitably there are some funny moments, and of course this is an endlessly watchable cast. But the movie is just too over-the-top.
The film does indeed deliver the laughs, and I suppose we can't ask much more than that in these mediocre summer months.
Wide parched vistas of monotony separate scrabbly oases of amusement and the payoff for a gag almost never matches the time devoted to its setup.
Lo adorable de su elenco, lo divertido de su trama y su atractivo reparto, la hacen sumamente disfrutable
A film that manages the frustrating feat of being pleasant and misguided at the same time.
One of the most caustic and hilarious looks behind the scenes of movie-making since Bowfinger.
Disappointingly pedestrian for a movie with such ripe and easy targets for much sharper satire.
A terrific romantic comedy about narcissism, insincerity, lunacy and glamour.
The movie is often chaotic and sometimes so silly and broad it borders on slapstick, but mostly it's just dumb fun.
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