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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
Reviews for Gossip
Predictable at every turn, glossy but stagy, and full of unengaging, underdeveloped characters, Gossip too is 'all just words'.
There's plenty of cynical, leering interaction between young men and women, presented with irritatingly loud background music that fails to obscure the movie's essential lack of substance.
Gossip stays in the game until the bottom of the ninth and then blows it.
Of more interest in this movie is its fabulous style, which takes precedence over niggling details like plausible storylines or characters.
With its hunks and dolls masquerading as characters, its contrived and sleazy plot twists and tawdry sex, Gossip owes less to any film genre than to TV soap operas.
It has a little more style than substance, but nevertheless Gossip is head-and-shoulders above many other college-age 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.
[The] complex seeming premise of Gossip is simple and clever in its presentation and development.
A cast of impossibly attractive actors, extravagant, fantasyland art direction and an insanely contrived plot.
Gossip is like one of those flashy, cutting-edge magazines -- it looks cool but it's no fun to read.
Gossip breaks out of the teen genre in surprising and ultimately pleasing ways .
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