A lot like Tammy Faye Bakker; you just know it has good intentions, but it ends up as a smeary facsimile of what it wants to be.
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04/23/04
Made-Up (2004)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:13
Rotten:19
Average Rating:5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When Elizabeth gave up her acting career to become a wife and mother, it was a liberating choice. She let her hair go gray, stopped worrying about every extra pound, and laughed when her teenage... [More]
Starring: Brooke Adams, Lynne Adams, Gary Sinise, Eva Amurri
Director: Tony Shalhoub
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03/27/04
Delivers billboard-sized messages about preconceptions of beauty and youth..., before the whole thing goes off the rails into a forced and humorless farce.
03/26/04
Salvaged by one meta-read that carries some weight as Shalhoub, an Arab-American of Lebanese descent, directs a film about the ills of stereotyping based on appearance.
03/25/04
This tiresome movie feels too flimsy for the waters beyond the film festival circuit.
03/24/04
It's a family affair that unfortunately looks too much like a feature-length home movie.
03/21/04
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03/16/04
It wants, as Kate says about her documentary, to be a 'seminal work on beauty and aging.' But it wears like a gauzy romantic comedy.
03/12/04
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02/17/04
Droll... but too psychologically fuzzy to engender more than of-the-moment laughs, Made-Up ping-pongs from cultural satire to wan proclamations of 'sisterhood.'
02/09/04
Resorts to tired shtick and soap-opera-level tensions to drive its points home with all the subtlety of a brick flung through a window.
02/06/04
The film wants to satirize both our fixation on appearances and reality filmmaking, but its strained humor and litany of cliches add little to either topic.
02/06/04
If Made-Up sounds all over the place, it is. And we don't suggest you follow.
02/06/04
A comedy with lots going on and with considerable depth and complexity.
02/05/04
Top CriticIt's hard to resist this family affair.
02/05/04
Voice-overs and commentaries are piled on top of contrived intimate moments until, despite some easygoing performances, the movie -- the actual movie -- is a blur of undercooked motivations and halfhearted improv.
02/05/04
The few meaningful moments occasionally generated are all but engulfed by fussy, meaningless distraction and wandering trivialities
02/01/04
A fun, irresistibly charming movie.
01/31/04
Made-Up is a funny film that catches the different shades of beauty in the lives of a small cross-cut of women.
01/30/04
The rest of the cast spend so much time trying to avoid tripping over each other and the electric wires strewn all over the carpets that the suspension of disbelief becomes an increasingly strenuous chore.
01/29/04
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