When Henry says he can't throw away a towel because he's afraid it might have feelings, even Miranda July will want to throttle him.
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08/21/07
Dedication (2007)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:18
Rotten:26
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup's lack of chemistry in Dedication makes it hard to maintain interest in this confused love story.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Actor Justin Theroux (MULHOLLAND DRIVE) switches roles and takes a turn behind the camera for the twisted romantic comedy DEDICATION. Billy Crudup stars as Henry, an obsessive-compulsive author of... [More]
Starring: Mandy Moore, Billy Crudup, Tom Wilkinson, Bob Balaban
Director: Justin Theroux
Reviews for Dedication
What works about it is very good and makes us want to see what Theroux could do with a more consistent property.
08/24/07
Will help Moore get additional notice within the industry, from writers, directors and other creative types who pay attention.
09/24/07
Dedication is a loopy, semi-romantic comedy better served had it been made by Hal Hartley and released during the autumn of 1994.
10/04/07
Actor Justin Theroux makes an auspicious directorial debut with a disarmingly funny romantic comedy full of emotional life and witty filmic textures.
08/14/07
It leaves you wishing the oddball couple well.
09/25/07
Another example of David Lynch's groovy surrealist vernacular flying over the head of one of his actors.
08/20/07
The wonderful actor Theroux (David Lynch films, TV's Brothers & Sisters) makes a disappointing directing debut with a wannabe romantic comedy that proves that messed up, obnoxious guys like his writer-hero also account for messed up obnoxious films.
08/21/07
It appears that the third eye went blind when the actors needed it.
08/22/07
That's what it takes to make it through this self-consciously dark romantic comedy.
11/08/07
Crudup exhibits admirable restraint. The story would be more compelling, however, had we not seen the same thing before in As Good as It Gets.
09/20/07
Gratingly hip, joyless, small-budget Dedication is just another example of what New Yorker magazine recently identified as the 'slacker-striver' trope in today's romances.
09/20/07
This might work if there were chemistry between the stars, but eccentric Crudup and girl-next-door Moore may be the worst casting match of the year.
08/24/07
One big asset is his excellent use of music, including the child-like plaintive wailing of a group called Deerhoof. Other smart choices include songs by Cat Power and the Stokes, all expertly edited into the flow of the story.
01/24/07
Top CriticDedication is peppered with drolly passive-aggressive supporting characters and actors equipped to do them full justice.
08/23/07
What began as an oddball study of a jagged male friendship devolves into cliché and compromise.
08/24/07
Top CriticIt restores one's faith in Mandy Moore's film career.
11/07/07
almost impossible to admire as a whole.
08/26/07
A weird hybrid of hipster art-house film and chick flick in which the warring intentions and attitudes cancel each other out.
08/24/07
You can see where all this is going -- author meets illustrator, crazy person meets sane person, withholding person meets giving person -- but there isn't one interesting thing about the journey.
08/24/07
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