Rotten
At bottom, what we've got here is a movie about a boy who meets a girl, loses her and tries to find a way to get her back. Which returns us to the original question: Can romance be reduced to scientific formula?
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Dopamine
Love. Real or Just a Chemical Reaction?
2003 · 1h 19m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Mark Decena
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Dopamine
Overview
Rand is a computer animator, who has created an artificial intelligence creature designed to interact with children and teach them responsibility. When his prototype is forced into practice at a school, Rand encounters Sarah, a teacher he was inexplicably drawn to, at his favorite bar one fateful evening. Sparks fly between them, but fundamental differences in their approaches to love and relationships slow them down to a halt.
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Rotten
Mostly a drab affair, unfolding in restaurants, office cubicles and anonymous apartments, in which characters talk endlessly about relationships in ways that suggest they think they're being intelligent.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
An amiably slight independent film that probably should have gone directly to the Sundance Channel.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten
... a near miss ...
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
While there's nothing terribly wrong with it, there's not much that's memorable either.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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