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Just a Kiss (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 59 Fresh: 11  Rotten:48 Average Rating: 4/10
 
Consensus: With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
 

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Runtime: 90 mins

Synopsis: Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still... Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still rolling, are some of the most dramatic in the film simply because of the near total use of brightly colored, graffiti-like animation. After those first sequences, the animation is used only for emphasis on certain details, or to depict fantasies, and the film takes on a more traditional style. JUST A KISS follows a group of friends--couples Dag (Ron Eldard) and Hallie (Kyra Sedgewick), Pete (Patrick Breen) and Rebecca (Marley Shelton), Andre (Taye Diggs) and Colleen (Sarita Choudhury), and the one black sheep, Paula (Marisa Tomei); as they learn the hard way that a kiss is never just a kiss. The film's themes of constant, inevitable infidelity and constant, inevitable sex are played out so obviously that the result is hilarious, cruel, and poignant. In addition, the imagination behind some of the gags in the film is nothing short of brilliant. JUST A KISS is a must-see comedy that will keep audience members smirking long after the movie ends. This film screened in May 2001 as part of the Gen Art Film Festival in New York City. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton

Director: Fisher Stevens
Screenwriter: Patrick Breen
Producer: Matthew Rowland

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 3, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

Interactive Features:

  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Selection

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Michael Dequina
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2/5

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Christopher Null
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Emanuel Levy
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06/01/05
Michael Szymanski
International Press Academy
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Most of the actors struggle with the clunky dialogue and often look almost as uncomfortable delivering it as you’ll feel sitting there watching them do so.

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09/24/03
Rachel Sanders
Apollo Guide
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01/31/03
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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A near-laughless comedy.

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12/13/02
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News
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1.5/4

What a mess.

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11/14/02
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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C-

Winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults.

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10/26/02
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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0/4

A lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable, but also unlistenable.

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10/25/02
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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3/5

Breen's script has deadpan wit, though it becomes a little labored as it goes along.

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10/21/02
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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1.5/5

Can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers? Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde.

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10/21/02
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly
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3/5

Occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going.

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10/18/02
Karina Montgomery
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The rather unlikable, unsympathetic characters make what is less than 90 minutes seem much, much longer.

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10/18/02
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except, maybe, that it looks neat.

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10/18/02
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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An imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie.

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10/18/02
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
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C

Overembellished to distraction.

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10/17/02
Tom Sime
Dallas Morning News
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3/4

For the most part Stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.

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10/17/02
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
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10/11/02
Arizona Republic
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2/5

Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people. But it is set in a world that is very, very far from the one most of us inhabit.

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10/10/02
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
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