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Gossip (2000)

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Reviews Counted:65

Fresh:18

Rotten:47

Average Rating:4.4/10

Consensus: Gossip drags on far beyond its entertainment value.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: An intriguing drama that uses for its premise the potentially damaging concept of spreading rumors. On a college campus, three friends decide to do a group assignment on the effects of GOSSIP. They... An intriguing drama that uses for its premise the potentially damaging concept of spreading rumors. On a college campus, three friends decide to do a group assignment on the effects of GOSSIP. They choose an unsuspecting couple, who are notorious for being sexually abstinent. Subtly, word leaks out that the boyfriend raped his girlfriend one drunken night after she had passed out. Before they know it, the campus is in a frenzy and the students have to come to terms with their actions, but by that point, it might already be too late. [More]

Starring: James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson

Starring: James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson, Marisa Coughlan, Joshua Jackson, Eric Bogosian, Sharon Lawrence, Edward James Olmos, Debrah Farentino

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Screenwriter: Gregory Poirier, Theresa Rebeck
Producer: Robert Newmyer, Jeffrey Silver
Composer: Graeme Revell

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Predictable at every turn, glossy but stagy, and full of unengaging, underdeveloped characters, Gossip too is 'all just words'.

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
12/02/02
Edward Lawrenson
Edward Lawrenson
Sight and Sound

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Poorly executed morality tale that borders on the absurd.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

It's entertaining in a trashy sort of way.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/01/00
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Of more interest in this movie is its fabulous style, which takes precedence over niggling details like plausible storylines or characters.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

An inane bore.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Pretty full of itself and doesn't try very hard to follow through on its potential, blatantly opting for style over substance.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

A rather overstated, illogical Generation Y thriller.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Philip Booth
Philip Booth
Orlando Weekly

Yes, this is a pretty good one.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

A modern day morality play about the harm that can come to those who are the targets of this kind of rancor.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
03/13/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Gossip suits its title. It's exaggerated, untrustworthy and annoyingly hard to ignore.

Full Review Source: Newhouse News Service | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Campbell
Bob Campbell
Newhouse News Service

Insufferable (and interminable) in-joke of a roundelay.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
10/20/02
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

The movie's problems begin at the beginning.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Caitlin Cleary
Caitlin Cleary
Seattle Times

[The] complex seeming premise of Gossip is simple and clever in its presentation and development.

Full Review Source: CinemaSense.Com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Cornell & Petricelli
Cornell & Petricelli
CinemaSense.Com

Its jagged and cynical undertone is a cut above typically banal teen fare.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Gossip stays in the game until the bottom of the ninth and then blows it.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
At the Movies

The pseudo-philosophical questions posed here are merely excuses to get a bunch of attractive young people to engage in sex, violence and the mass consumption of alcohol.

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Monica Eng
Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune

Gossip is mostly hot air.

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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
 
 
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