Remember the romantic sparks between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman? In Runaway Bride it's more like a damp fizzle.
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04/07/01
Runaway Bride (1999)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:37
Rotten:45
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Cliche story with lack of chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Ike Graham (Richard Gere) is a New York newspaper columnist with a problem - his deadline is an hour away, his ex-wife is his boss and his writer's block is working overtime. Retreating to his... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo
Director: Garry Marshall
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Marshall is too much of a softie; he meanders around the story, milking it for both sentiment and comedy and often tripping over himself in the process.
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Top CriticThis glossy comedy's romantic heat never rises above an amiable simmer - but it's funny and charming nonetheless.
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Top CriticIt isn't that Runaway Bride is a horrible movie, it's that I've already seen a slightly different version of it done dozens of times before.
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Runaway Bride works its way into some genuinely compelling emotional territory that Pretty Woman didn't dare acknowledge.
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A dull, lifeless stinkbomb that plays like a 2 hour commercial for itself, hoping that the Gere-Roberts-Marshall combination is enough to warrant viewers' money. It isn't.
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Roberts is entirely at home in the movie, and her frisky reflexes emerge liberated.
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Runaway Bride is a shamelessly manipulative, slick, shallow, contrived piece of old-fashioned, pre-tested, star-driven Hollywood claptrap, and very welcome it is.
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That charming thing only works if the story is good.
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Unfolds predictably and satisfyingly.
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