Rotten
Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Finding Amanda
When it comes to screwing up their lives, some people don't know when to cry uncle.
2008 · 1h 36m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Peter Tolan
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Finding Amanda
Overview
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
40%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A very darkly humorous film.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
Matthew Broderick regains his cinematic stride as a morosely wise-cracking television producer on the skids, ably abetted by Maura Tierney as his much-put-upon wife and Brittany Snow as his perky prostitute niece.
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Rotten
Broderick's sunny spin on the deeply flawed Taylor is interesting but eventually defies belief. In the third act, Finding Amanda loses steam altogether.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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