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11/13/07
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
11 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 4 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 3.5/10
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The humor is on the level of a corny sitcom, and the tone is condescending.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton, Natasha Richardson, Charlize Theron, and Patrick Swayze star in this redneck road trip comedy that is a twisted mixture of the 1969 wife-swapping classic BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE and 1997's VEGAS VACATION. Lonnie Earl (Thornton) is a self-centered Little Rock, Arkansas... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Charlize Theron, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson, Brent Briscoe
Director: Jordan Brady
Screenwriter: Brent Briscoe, Mark Fauser
Producer: Ben Myron, Robert Salerno, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Dwight Yoakam
Composer: Marty Stuart
Screenwriter: Brent Briscoe, Mark Fauser
Producer: Ben Myron, Robert Salerno, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Dwight Yoakam
Composer: Marty Stuart
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07/21/05
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A bushel of yokel gags and labored boudoir misunderstandings ... culminating with a tipping-the-bellhop gag that first appeared in cave paintings.
01/21/05
I can't begin to tell you how tedious, how resolutely unamusing, how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is, and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents...
05/03/03
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03/10/03
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11/16/02
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11/16/02
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It won't harm anyone, but neither can I think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it. After all, it'll probably be in video stores by Christmas, and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies.
11/12/02
The whole damn thing is ripe for the Jerry Springer crowd. It's all pretty cynical and condescending, too.
11/03/02
Brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors ... by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable.
10/31/02
It would be disingenuous to call Reno a great film, but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex. This is a movie that is what it is: a pleasant distraction, a Friday night diversion, an excuse to eat popcorn.
10/29/02
I like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material, but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort.
10/29/02
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