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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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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Empire Magazine
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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
N/R

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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Full Review Source: UK Critic | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

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.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

The movie feels longer than its 90 minutes.

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01/01/00
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press

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

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
At the Movies

Gossip isn't really worth talking about.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/01/00
Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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
N/R

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01/01/00
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Blunt Review

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.

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01/01/00
Loren King
Loren King
Boston Globe

It has a little more style than substance, but nevertheless Gossip is head-and-shoulders above many other college-age movies.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Mike Kerrigan
Mike Kerrigan
Boxoffice Magazine

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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01/01/00
Monica Eng
Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune

[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

A cast of impossibly attractive actors, extravagant, fantasyland art direction and an insanely contrived plot.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Citysearch

An engrossing tale adapted into a taut screenplay.

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01/01/00
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Gossip is like one of those flashy, cutting-edge magazines -- it looks cool but it's no fun to read.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Tom Maurstad
Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
10/30/01
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Wanna hear a juicy rumor? Here's a good one: Gossip stinks.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Gossip breaks out of the teen genre in surprising and ultimately pleasing ways .

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
 
 
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