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'Til There Was You (1997)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:2

Rotten:25

Average Rating:4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Two young, upwardly mobile Angelenos lead separate lives destined to intersect--he's a standoffish architect and pathological liar looking out for number one, and she's a wistful, incurably... Two young, upwardly mobile Angelenos lead separate lives destined to intersect--he's a standoffish architect and pathological liar looking out for number one, and she's a wistful, incurably romantic ghost writer looking for Mr. Right. She loves her ornate Gothic apartment building; he's been hired to raze it and replace it with postmoderny angular condos. The two stumble through a maze of near-misses and contrived coincidences on the rocky road to romance. A first feature for director Winant, formerly a producer for TV's "My So-Called Life"; that show's creator, Winnie Holzman, penned. [More]

Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston

Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olin, Craig Bierko, Nina Foch, Alice Drummond, Christine Ebersole, Michael Tucker, Steve Antin, Patrick Malahide, Kasi Lemmons, Kale Browne, Karen Allen

Director: Scott Winant

Director: Scott Winant
Composer: Miles Goodman, Terence Blanchard
Producer: Penney Finkelman Cox, Tom Rosenberg, Alan Poul, Sigurjon Sighvatsson
Screenwriter: Winnie Holzman

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Reviews for 'Til There Was You

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A big waste of time.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Guy MacPherson
Guy MacPherson
Apollo Guide

No review available.

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

This film is as messy as its lead character Gwen's (Tripplehorn) personal life.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Alison Macor
Alison Macor
Austin Chronicle

No review available.

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11/08/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

Bad romantic comedies with sappy characters aren't always without merit, since we cynics can at least use them to further our conviction that love isn't worth the trouble. But this bad romantic comedy is merely bad.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
09/05/09
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
Boston Phoenix

With its clotted script, art direction that's all splash and no style, and dialogue that's too nakedly calculated to facilitate identification), this tedious and confused movie points several characters in obvious directions.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/28/09
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

Here is the most tiresome and affected movie in many a moon, a 114-minute demonstration of the Idiot Plot, in which everything could be solved with a few well-chosen words that are never spoken.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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01/01/00
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

No review available.

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08/17/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

This is a fluffy, delightful romantic comedy in the same vein as Sleepless in Seattle.

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04/17/02
Leslie Rigoulot
Leslie Rigoulot
Film Scouts

When you combine the film's tedious length with questionable casting decisions (Parker disappoints, and Jennifer Aniston plays a surgeon(!?)) you get a fine mess that eventually redeems itself... just not all the way.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

With dialog like this why did the producers go forward with this project? The movie needs a rewrite and a new director.

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01/01/00
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Tripplehorn and McDermott are likable enough in their roles, but Holzman's precious, overwritten script gives them few genuinely honest moments.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/14/01
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
Los Angeles Times
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The end credits couldn't have come any sooner

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09/20/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Winnie Holzman's screenplay is uneven.

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01/01/00
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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No review available.

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01/30/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

The film's real irony is that Gwen and Nick are so annoying that they deserve each other.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

pure plastic, flat and transparent. All involved were all too obviously aiming for another ``Sleepless In Seattle,'' but what they've produced is a cinematic siesta.

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01/01/00
James Sanford
James Sanford
rec.arts.movies.reviews

The fatal flaw comes with the casting of the romantic leads, and for once the problem isn't that they don't belong together. You're just not likely to care one way or the other.

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01/01/00
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
rec.arts.movies.reviews

The payoff, such as it is, is distressingly anticlimactic, and results in frustration.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
 
 
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