America's Sweethearts (2001)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 103m
Director: Joe Roth
Cast: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin
Synopsis:
The last film collaboration of a movie star couple is the cause for a press junket of unprecedented phoneyness, the débâcle of the pair's tattered romance being compounded by the fact that the director is holding the finished movie hostage.
Review:
Film comedy by numbers (My Best Friend's Wedding by way of Miss Congeniality), complete with the expected penis gags and racial stereotyping, and just an undertow of subversiveness provided by Walken's longhaired revolutionary/film director. Crystal writes himself many of the best lines and Tucci is wasted as usual; meanwhile the stars struggle manfully with the obligatory feelgood message about honesty, achieved mainly through the caricature of selfishness that is Zeta-Jones's pampered movie star. By the end, with the preservation of Crystal's nice-guy image and the last-minute rehabilitation of Zeta-Jones, this attack on the self-obsessiveness of Hollywood showbiz rings decidedly hollow.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 103m
Director: Joe Roth
Cast: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin
Synopsis:
The last film collaboration of a movie star couple is the cause for a press junket of unprecedented phoneyness, the débâcle of the pair's tattered romance being compounded by the fact that the director is holding the finished movie hostage.
Review:
Film comedy by numbers (My Best Friend's Wedding by way of Miss Congeniality), complete with the expected penis gags and racial stereotyping, and just an undertow of subversiveness provided by Walken's longhaired revolutionary/film director. Crystal writes himself many of the best lines and Tucci is wasted as usual; meanwhile the stars struggle manfully with the obligatory feelgood message about honesty, achieved mainly through the caricature of selfishness that is Zeta-Jones's pampered movie star. By the end, with the preservation of Crystal's nice-guy image and the last-minute rehabilitation of Zeta-Jones, this attack on the self-obsessiveness of Hollywood showbiz rings decidedly hollow.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 103m
Director: Joe Roth
Cast: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin
Synopsis:
The last film collaboration of a movie star couple is the cause for a press junket of unprecedented phoneyness, the débâcle of the pair's tattered romance being compounded by the fact that the director is holding the finished movie hostage.
Review:
Film comedy by numbers (My Best Friend's Wedding by way of Miss Congeniality), complete with the expected penis gags and racial stereotyping, and just an undertow of subversiveness provided by Walken's longhaired revolutionary/film director. Crystal writes himself many of the best lines and Tucci is wasted as usual; meanwhile the stars struggle manfully with the obligatory feelgood message about honesty, achieved mainly through the caricature of selfishness that is Zeta-Jones's pampered movie star. By the end, with the preservation of Crystal's nice-guy image and the last-minute rehabilitation of Zeta-Jones, this attack on the self-obsessiveness of Hollywood showbiz rings decidedly hollow.