Rotten
The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly
America's Sweethearts
Hollywood's hottest couple just split up. It'll take more than special effects to reunite them.
2001 · 1h 42m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Joe Roth
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America's Sweethearts
Overview
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
Director and cast
- Joe Roth Director
- Julia Roberts as Kathleen "Kiki" Harrison
- Billy Crystal as Lee Phillips
- John Cusack as Eddie Thomas
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Gwen Harrison
- Hank Azaria as Hector Gorgonzolas
- Stanley Tucci as Dave Kingman
- Christopher Walken as Hal Weidmann
- Alan Arkin Cast
- Seth Green Cast
- Scot Zeller Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
The premise falters along with much of the shtick.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
America's Sweethearts is a balloon, all right -- a lead one.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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