A misguided clunker that borders on being offensive.
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09/19/04
De-Lovely (2004)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:74
Rotten:77
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Musical numbers save movie from cliches.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Directed by Irwin Winkler, DE-LOVELY depicts the life of the great American composer Cole Porter (Kevin Kline). Despite his sexual preference for men, Porter found inspiration and virtually... [More]
Starring: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Keith Allen
Director: Irwin Winkler
Reviews for De-Lovely
It's very, very bad, and not even in a nice, campy Showgirls way.
10/06/04
There are enough glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled.
09/14/04
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10/06/04
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04/01/06
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06/24/06
Top CriticThe Porter’s sexless marriage means the film is sexless.
06/23/04
It's afraid to move too far one way or the other. For a movie about the man who wrote "Let's Misbehave," there's an awful lot of behaving going on here.
07/02/04
The kind of escapist entertainment that has one hunting for an escape route.
07/01/04
Successfully intimate, underwhelming (for the most part) musically, at times as difficult as their relationship, the film also has a very sweet sense to it.
06/30/04
An innovative biopic, an irresistible musical (featuring some of today's top artists covering Porter standards) and a surprisingly touching heterosexual love story -- even though it doesn't shy away one inch from its hero's rampant bisexuality.
07/01/04
All dressed up with nowhere to go.
06/23/04
Functions beautifully from the context in which many of his songs are presented.
07/19/04
It is stiff, lifeless and incomprehensibly dull.
07/23/04
Porter's lyrics and melodies still sparkle with the brilliance of bubbling champagne, but this movie biography is about as effervescent as swamp gas.
07/23/04
As a bio-pic, De-Lovely is pretty standard, run-of-the-mill stuff. However, as a 'best hits' collection of Cole Porter's music, it is unparalleled.
06/30/04
An imaginative, deconstructionist, celebratory musical biography woven together from elements of theater, meta-cinema, chamber drama and Porter's own MGM musicals.
06/30/04
De-Lovely is a work of art, in the medium of film, with an almost dreamlike vision, as if we've fallen into a portal through the floodlights...READ ON->
06/23/04
Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying.
07/16/04
I don't know what I was more bothered by, his smirk or his strut
07/05/04
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