The Bellas were one big happy family. Then Renata met Sam...
The Bellas were one big happy family. Then Renata met Sam...
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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1991
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Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, especially her beloved father Joe, leaving Renata trapped in the middle.
This rather overbearing romantic comedy is by no means a disaster.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
Ethnic romances from Abie's Irish Rose to Moonstruck have traveled similar ground, but few have handled the role of family in a marriage more poignantly than Once Around.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
fresh:
The first movie in a long time to leave me speechless.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
There is no there there, just the dead red glow of the beckoning Exit light.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
On the whole Once Around is strangely enervating, proof that family problems -- even those of fictional families -- are often best kept behind closed doors.