It's a pleasure to see [Clayburgh] back in full force, having aged beautifully, and in a role that serves as such a neat bookend to An Unmarried Woman.
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07/18/02
Never Again (2002)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:19
Rotten:41
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: The performances are excellent, but much of the story rings false.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Like WHEN HARRY MET SALLY for fiftysomethings living in a world that feels like THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, NEVER AGAIN is a candid, lighthearted film that looks at the emotional and sexual lives... [More]
Starring: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Reviews for Never Again
I doubt if the solution to the movie industry's ludicrous ageism is showing 50-year-olds acting like randy 20-year-olds.
07/18/02
The characters are a major pain in the ass, to each other and to us.
07/17/02
Thumbs up.
07/15/02
Schaeffer isn't in this film, which may be why it works as well as it does.
07/15/02
Now all we need is a flick about elderly queers in heat. No, The Dresser doesn't count.
07/13/02
Jeffrey Tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy.
07/13/02
Never Again tries and fails to be Before Sunrise for the middle age set, but the talky script just isn't strong enough.
07/12/02
Schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies, and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character.
07/12/02
Please, someone, stop Eric Schaeffer before he makes another film.
07/12/02
Never Again doesn't quite rise above the conventions it attempts to deconstruct, but at its center are two gifted actors who are more than willing to take chances.
07/12/02
Though the characters are sometimes forced into madcap situations for the sake of adding yuks, the film works best when the protagonists are just being themselves
07/12/02
Schaeffer successfully teams Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburgh in a middle-aged romance between a pair of wary divorces, only to shoot them down with some of the most tasteless dialogue ever spoken in a mainstream movie.
07/12/02
Top CriticSchaeffer should take the advice of his own movie's title the next time he thinks about coercing some poor actress into making a fool of herself.
07/12/02
With a tone as variable as the cinematography, Schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs, and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm.
07/11/02
As conceived by Mr. Schaeffer, Christopher and Grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible task of making them jell.
07/11/02
Top CriticSchaefer's...determination to inject farcical raunch...drowns out the promise of the romantic angle.
07/11/02
"Never Again" is a feel-good romance for real people. If you want a smart, mature romantic comedy, this is the one to see.
07/11/02
A very funny romantic comedy about two skittish New York middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles.
07/11/02
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