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02/09/06
Touch of Pink (2004)
37 %
Reviews Counted: 59 Fresh: 22 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus:
Kyle MacLachlan does a very good imitation Cary Grant in this forced and contrived tale.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: Jimi Mistry (THE GURU, EAST IS EAST) stars in this charming and surprisingly poignant romantic comedy, which is driven by the humor that infuses the multifaceted cultural divide between the young and old, Indian and Western, gay and straight--not to mention real and imaginary, alive and... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Suleka Mathew, Kristen Holden-Ried
Reviews
Top Critic
Rashid struggles with tone and pacing ... but his characters are so vivid and the romance so sweet that we forgive him.
10/28/04
A mildly amusing gay comedy, with the only novel point of Cary Grant serving as a spiritual mentor; the rest is formula.
07/26/05
...more self-congratulatory than genuinely edgy, and the best reason to see it is MacLachlan's tidy impersonation.
01/29/05
[It's] a blend of trite plot points and obnoxious characters, held together by the notion that you should be watching something else instead.
01/12/05
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10/29/04
Top Critic
A cute, ineffectual film that breaks absolutely no new ground but enjoys itself as it skips down the familiar paths.
10/19/04
Kyle MacLachlan's robust impersonation of Cary Grant is good for a laugh, but its overuse is just one of the crimes against this joyless cross-cultural gay romance.
10/08/04
There are two crucial bits of miscasting, one bad, one good, both distracting.
09/30/04
A gay romantic comedy so coyly inoffensive that it becomes offensive in its inoffensiveness.
09/10/04
An uncomfortable jumble of Harvey, Bend It Like Beckham and The Birdcage.
09/03/04
Much of the problem with Touch of Pink rests with Mistry, whose nice guy appeal registers even less than it did in his previous starring vehicles, The Guru and The Mystic Masseur.
09/03/04
While MacLachlan captures Grant's regal confidence, his overenunciation and hammy gestures lean more into caricature than imitation.
09/02/04
MacLachlan's strong jaw line and his valiant attempt to act so very Cary aren't enough to save this film.
08/13/04
As much as it aspires to mimic the charm of old Cary Grant pictures, Touch of Pink is hardly worthy of comparison to even the least of Grant's films.
08/13/04
The movie pretty much collapses upon the fulcrum of Kyle MacLachlan's Cary Grant.
08/13/04
A harmless, lightweight romantic comedy that does everything that you expect it to.
08/12/04
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