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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:5
Rotten:58
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: The rapid fire dialogue and witticisms comes off only as a contrived gimmick.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Thomas Cavanagh) are inseparable. They live together, take ballroom dancing classes, and jog in the park together. They'd make a very attractive couple were it not... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh, Saffron Burrows, Sissy Spacek
Director: Sue Kramer
Despite being bogged down by several distracting, extended dance numbers, this zany farce has just enough momentum and surprises along the way to hold one's interest for the duration. But it'll help immeasurably if you're a devotee of daytime soap operas.
Much too eager to please rather than dealing with the messier issues around sexual identity.
The camera never strays far from Graham, who, decked out in well-fitted outfits that make the most of her anything-but-boyish figure, sweetly leavens her heroine's ditzy sexual confusion without trivializing or overly normalizing it.
Top CriticGraham easily roller-skates off with this showcase-driven role.
Some unlikely scenes but it kept me entertained enough to make it enjoyable.
Dull, contrived, obvious, and at 96 minutes, seemingly endless.
Sue Kramer is clearly out to shake up the boring old boy-meets-girl formula, but her movie is so filled with preposterous coincidence and ridiculous clunky plot machinations that it's impossible to ignore them and focus on the equally contrived story.
The movie’s light, airy tone comes to a screeching halt in certain scenes that are excessively sentimental, melodramatic and preachy.
Heather Graham's nonstop perky chattering is more annoying than cute in [this] uneven, unrealistic romantic comedy about a rather bizarre love triangle.
Nearly every scene of this movie rings hollow, mainly because we can never really believe that what we're seeing up on the screen could truly happen.
Top CriticWhile the light and whimsical comic timing of the leads carry the film far, even they cannot blind us to Gray Matters' many shortcomings.
This movie falls into the gray area between good and just okay.
Gray's matters are pretty mundane, to tell you the truth
Sitcommy, forced and forgettable.
Gray Matters feels dated: Gray's self-identity confusion is less "adorable" than annoying, and both she and Charlie appear exceptionally clueless about what's going on.
...an amiable misfire.
Gray's identity issues -- presumably the movie's main focus -- share time with too many subsidiary scenes that seem (rightly or wrongly) to have been written for as many actor-friends of the filmmakers as possible.
Gray Matters is as unhinged as its characters.
Never have I ever wanted to climb into the screen and kill every single character as much as I did with this movie.
A frantically overwrought [Heather] Graham does herself no favors here. She has talent, but as long as she keeps stumbling through clumsy comedies like this one, it hardly matters.
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