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Release Date: 04 February, 2003 Retail Price: $27.96 OUR Price: $23.77 You SAVE: $4.19! Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
America's Sweethearts Reviews
Charming
"America's Sweethearts" is co-written by Billy Crystal and manages to explore the whole celebrity-couple hypocrisy. Even though this movie was made in 2001, that hypocrisy is still very much around. Look around;
Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes, Jennifer Aniston-Vince Vaughan, and Nicole Kidman-Keith Urban, just to name a few, are all products of the media's attention. This movie is cheesy, stupid, and pokes fun at what's going on and is really, truly funny. Billy Crystal plays a veteran press agent named Lee, who has just been fired by his boss Dave Kingman (Stanley Tucci, 'The Devil Wears Prada'). As he's leaving, Dave invites him into the screening room to see the final movie starring celebrity couple Gwen Harrison (Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Supporting Actress 'Chicago') and Eddie Thomas (John Cusack, 'The Ice Harvest'). They were america's sweethearts, but not they've broken up. As they sit down to watch the movie, they discover that the film has been taken hostage by it's crazed director Hal Weiddman (the wonderful Christopher Walken) and will not be shown until the press junket. In order to distract the press, Lee has to make sure he can get Gwen and Eddie back together...Or at least, make it look like they have. Lee enlists the help of Gwen's sister/personal assistant Kiki (Oscar winner Julia Roberts, Best Actress 'Erin Brockovich'), who secretly harbors a crush on Eddie. While the film does follow the basic romantic-comedy formula, it works and it is funny. Hank Azaria ('Along Came Polly' & 'The Simpsons) turns up playing Gwen's spanish boyfriend and is of course, hilarious. Walken is perfect as the crazed director and Cusack, Zeta-Jones, Roberts, & Crystal are all so likeable...This movie is kind of hard to resist.
GRADE: A-
Enchanting!
It is no surprise why Billy Crystal is one of America's Sweethearts, because we in America just love him. I really wish that this movie could have had a little less of Julia Roberts and John Cusack, and a little more of Billy's shenanigans like he does so delightfully during the Oscars. Maybe he could have sung a few songs about Catherine Zeta Jones (and even made silly references to how old her husband--Michael Douglas--is), and done a snappy little dance. That would have made this movie slightly more enjoyable.
But even though they didn't do that, I would pay money to see Julia Roberts fall in love with anything--even a plate of yams--because she is just so down-to-earth. In real life I just know she's like any other normal person, because that's what she says to the paparazzi all the time. This is clearly the role that everyone will remember her for.
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