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  America's Sweethearts at DVDwolf.com
America's Sweethearts sets up the basic romantic comedy in what should be a very witty and perhaps even catty setting, the press junket.
America's Sweethearts is released in a way I wish more discs were...a choice in both formats...either wide screen or DVD.
America's Sweethearts has several deleted scenes that can be watched on their own, or viewed with an introduction by Joe Roth explaining why they were cut from the film.
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 America's Sweethearts Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
Those expecting "America's Sweethearts" to be just another tired romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts ("Notting Hill" anyone?) are in for a treat.
The titular "America's Sweethearts" are husband-and-wife acting team Eddie Thomas (Cusack) and Gwen Harrison (Zeta-Jones), who have starred together in a string of hit romances with titles such as "Sasha and the Optometrist", "The Bench", and "Autumn with Greg and Peg".
"America's Sweethearts" may look like just another romantic comedy, but it isn't-- similar to "The Player" or "Bowfinger", it is also a brilliant satire on the Hollywood movie marketing machine.
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 America's Sweethearts - Moviefone
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Review of the romantic comedy, America's Sweethearts, starring Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Cusack, and Billy Crystal.
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 Review: America's Sweethearts
The previews are selling America's Sweethearts as a romantic comedy, but, while that's an admitted element of the picture's broad-based appeal, the film does much more than merely chronicle a formulaic boy-meets-girl story.
America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast.
America's Sweethearts is characterized by sharp dialogue, comedy that varies from tame to ribald (Billy Crystal's encounter with a friendly Doberman is priceless), and a romance that adds a little sugar to the otherwise salty circumstances.
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 Americas Sweethearts -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
America's Sweethearts (2001) is a Romantic Comedy, directed by Joe Roth, starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
''America's Sweetheart'' is Courtney Love's debut album as a solo artist, released on February 10, 2004 (see 2004 in music).
''Sweetheart of the Rodeo'' is an album by American country rock band The Byrds, released on July 22, 1968 (see 1968 in music).
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 Amazon.com: America's Sweethearts: DVD: Hank Azaria,Marty Belafsky,Doc Cheatham,John Cusack,Jim Ferguson,Seth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
All of which makes America's Sweethearts lightly entertaining, even though it never rises (like Roberts's earlier Notting Hill) to the level of classic romantic comedy, hampered by a script that too often substitutes easy laughs for ripe satirical invention, flashing a phony grin when it should be baring its fangs.
They were america's sweethearts, but not they've broken up.
Everything about the film is false, a false romance between "America's Sweethearts" holds a studio together, the press is invited on a junket to promote a movie that doesn't exist; indeed, part of the film's comedy and pleasure is that it rewards our most wicked suspicions about Hollywood.
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 America's Sweethearts (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their movies are almost guaranteed to be sure-fire box office bonanzas – until now that is. Just recently, Gwen has moved in with a Latin actor named Hector, bringing to an end not only the famous marriage but also the lucrative career of the once-happy couple.
To say that `America's Sweethearts' is one of the worst romantic comedies of the past several years would be to belittle it.
Considering the pedigree of so many of the people involved in its making and the expectations that inevitably go along with that pedigree, `America's Sweethearts' is one of the worst romantic comedies of any number of years.
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 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: America's Sweethearts
"America's Sweethearts" is a dull-witted, utterly slight comedy that, dare I say, is boring from one end to the other.
If "America's Sweethearts" wants to take a ruthless, sharp jab at the Hollywood industry, it is far too soft around the edges and lacks the wit needed to accomplish such a task.
She injects life into the slimmest of parts, and "America's Sweethearts" offers her her most thankless role since 1991's "Hook." While Roberts' Kiki is the sole likable presence, as she gradually learns to stand up for herself, she is underwritten and not terribly engaging.
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 America's Sweethearts (2001): Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal - PopMatters Film Review
The sweethearts of the title do not technically include Roberts, but she is the number one sweetheart (we know that without being told).
While the critically maligned Scary Movie 2 takes a similarly scattershot approach to plot, in America's Sweethearts, the pay scale is higher and the jokes are more or less on topic, that topic being the movie biz.
Of the many bad ideas in America's Sweethearts (Eddie almost falling off a roof in front of that same crowd of reporters, Eddie and Hector duking it out in a restaurant in front of that same crowd of reporters, the reporters playing themselves in front of that same crowd of reporters), this one stands out.
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 America's Sweethearts : film review
America's Sweethearts is a breezy comedy that gets a lot of mileage out of its top-flight ensemble cast.
At first, trying to maintain the peace between Gwen and Eddie seems to be the biggest hurdle facing Kiki and Lee as the couple, deemed "America's Sweethearts" by the public and the press, really can't stand to be around each other.
If there is one thing about America's Sweethearts that can't be contested, it is the appealing ensemble cast.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: America's Sweethearts (xhtml)
"America's Sweethearts" recycles "Singin' in the Rain" but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical, which is still the best comedy ever made about Hollywood.
But "Singin' in the Rain" unreeled with effortless grace, and "America's Sweethearts" lacks inner confidence that it knows what it is and where it's going.
We get the idea behind what he's trying to do, but "America's Sweethearts" never lets him do it.
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 America's Sweethearts (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tagline: America's hottest couple has just broken up...it will take more than special effects to get them back together.
Plot Outline: A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for America's Sweethearts (2001)
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 Reviews - Americas Sweethearts
Unfortunately there's no love lost between these "Sweethearts", after nine hit movies together and a calamitous 18-month separation prompted by Gwen's affair with her Spanish co-star, Hector (Hank Azaria).
'America's Sweethearts' is a biting satire of the whole movie industry and of press junkets in particular.
Director Joe Roth has been a studio boss himself, having run both Fox and Disney, and he brings to this film an inside knowledge of just the sort of things that we all thought went on (but were afraid to believe).
www.unreel.co.uk /reviews/a/Americas_Sweethearts/index.cfm   (484 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts
It never is as funny or as clever as it wants to be, leaving the viewer with a half-hearted romantic comedy and/or satire of movie junkets.
America's Sweetheart's is just not funny or engaging enough to hold one's attention for the duration.
America's sweethearts are Gwen Harrison and Eddie Thomas, a superstar married couple.
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 The Billings Outpost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When I sat down to watch "America's Sweethearts" I was confused.
"America's Sweethearts" isn't only the first film from that studio but also the first film Roth has directed in 11 years.
Remember, Julia, for several years audiences forgot how lovable you are because you decided to venture away from the type of roles that made you famous.
www.billingsnews.com /story?storyid=495&issue=29   (501 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts : filmcritic.com Movie Review
America's Sweethearts is the opposite of reality, a train wreck that tries to sell Julia as a scruffy also-ran, presumably because she wears horn-rimmed glasses and used to be overweight (uh-huh).
Aside from a scant few zingers (Yeah, SeƱor Winces rules!), America's Sweethearts' jokes aren't funny, its pace is choppy, and the whole affair comes off as a vanity project -- not for headlining star Julia Roberts -- but for Billy Crystal to deliver a bunch of lame punch lines that he wrote himself.
I could drone on about how America's Sweethearts will only appeal to the mouth-breathing morons who talk on their cell phones during the movies, but that would get old.
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 SPLICEDwire | "America's Sweethearts" review (2001) Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, ...
May seem all the more contrived on the small screen & the what laughs there are will be diminished with an audience to laugh with you.
But the industry insider comedy in "America's Sweethearts" is painted with such broad strokes that none of it feels like more than a gentle ribbing.
Eddie mistakes Kiki for Gwen at a distance and declares "That's the woman I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life with." It's just this kind of stereotypical storytelling that turns "America's Sweethearts" into exactly the kind of movie that it's trying to mock with its behind-the-scenes nudge-nudge, wink-wink routine.
www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/amsweethearts.html   (653 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts Movie Review (2001) from Channel 4 Film
However, much as punters like Julia Roberts, Zeta-Jones, Cusack and co, they might not be quite so fascinated by an hour and a half of Hollywood in-jokes as Crystal, and director Roth, seem to imagine.
Gwen (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (Cusack) are 'America's Sweethearts'.
But after a string of smash movies and a marriage, the couple have split - her into the arms of her lover (Azaria), he to a nervous breakdown.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100426   (271 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts
America's Sweethearts indepth, exclusive coverage of the NFL Playoffs kicks off today with the Kansas City Chiefs visiting the Indiapolis Colts, followed by the Dallas Cowboys at the Seattle Seahawks.
Something is horribly wrong with the America's Sweethearts Myspace page.
Also, you can see the original (and very crudely assembled) America's Sweethearts (circa August 2005) comic here.
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 thebluefish.org.uk - americas sweethearts celebrity revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the surface America's Sweethearts is one of those films I might be ashamed to have seen.
To the public she is a sweetheart, media luvvy but beneath the tv image she is selfish and unlikeable, and very sucessful.
If it be true that the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart then in America's Sweethearts the proverb is personified.
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 Top Box Office Movies - America's Sweethearts
In one of this summer's most anticipated comedies, 'America's Sweethearts' takes us inside a veritable Hollywood break-up set against the backdrop of the most important element in a film's promotion - the press junket.
This is where reviewers gather together to screen a film before its' initial release, and then get to interview the actors as they numblessly sit through countless, pointless interviews repeating the same answers to the same questions over and over.
Even though 'America's Sweethearts' offers some funny moments, it leaves the viewer with bad after taste.
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 Moviehole.net - America's Sweethearts
Penned by Billy Crystal and directed by Joe Roth, "America's Sweethearts" attempts to spoof the film industry, in particular power couples.
The 'Sweethearts' are former on and off-screen couple, Eddie Thomas (John Cusack) and Gwen Harrison (Catherine Zeta-Jones), whose passionate love affair has since crumbled and left is a impending divorce settlement to be.
When their latest film is no where near finished (thanks to it's Kubrick-like director, played by Christopher Walken) a press-junket is held to cover up for the fact that they won't have a movie to show anyone yet - but they will be reuniting Thomas and Harrison for the event.
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 America's Sweethearts. Hollywood Jesus Visual Reviews
At first it seems her biggest challenge is to keep the peace between Eddie and Gwen and their public image intact, but soon Kiki is faced with a more personal concern as her longtime friendship with Eddie begins to take a romantic turn.
America's Sweethearts derives its inspiration from the 1952 movie musical "Singing in the Rain." In many respects this remake lacks the conviction, charm, and comedy of the original.
It is I. His assignment is to give the public the perception that Gwen and Eddie, America's favorite sweetheart team, are back together again.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /americas_sweethearts.htm   (1170 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts (2001) movie review
There was certainly enough talent attached to this project; John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal and a strong supporting cast and crew.
This movie is about a weekend press junket for a bad film in which the two biggest stars in the movies have to be civil to each other.
You never really buy Roberts' character Kiki, she needs to do more than wear a fat suit in some flashback scenes for us to believe that she is supposed to be a shy wallflower with self-esteem problems -- or someone whose movie star sister can take total advantage of.
www.popentertainment.com /americassweethearts.htm   (326 words)

  
 America's Sweethearts - Rotten Tomatoes
Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy.
You have to suffer through the de facto Miss America, Julia Roberts, pretending as though she's blending in with the furniture.
America's Sweethearts recycles Singin' in the Rain but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/americas_sweethearts   (822 words)

  
 americas sweethearts 2001 movie review by Jim Eadon
America's Sweethearts is a gutless satire of Hollywood.
For America's Sweethearts to be a Hollywood satire is ironic, for this bland movie itself represents much of what is wrong with Hollywood.
And Julia Roberts was terrible, but I don't care fir her anyway, don't know why.
www.eadon.com /movies/americassweet.php   (247 words)

  
 Americas Sweethearts - Days in the fabulous life of Lewe
I saw a total of three movies in the last 4 weeks, two of those are oldies, like Americas Sweethearts and just one is in fact one of those precious Oscar Nominees.
I saw it about 2 weeks ago, my girlfriend was looking for a funny movie to watch and so in the end we chose to watch this one.
There is one very special reason why Americas Sweethearts works out so well for me, John Cusack.
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 America's Sweethearts Film Review
While his portrayal of the unctuous publicity agent Lee Phillips is consistently amusing, his reunion with writing partner Peter Tolan fails to yield the same hilarious results as their previous collaboration, Analyze This.
America's Sweethearts takes a great cast, a good premise and a promising opening and then sadly wastes them all as it degenerates into a nonsensical farce.
During the course of their nine films together, the married couple of Gwen Harrison (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie Thomas (Cusack) has firmly established itself as America's sweethearts.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/americas_sweethearts.html   (634 words)

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