Rotten
The movie is merely a joke-stoked soap opera; its bare-bones plot leaves the characters unrealized and the situations undefined.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Something Borrowed
It's a thin line between love and friendship.
2011 · 1h 52m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Luke Greenfield
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Something Borrowed
Overview
Though Rachel is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy. Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan, Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.
Director and cast
- Luke Greenfield Director
- Ginnifer Goodwin as Rachel
- Kate Hudson as Darcy
- Colin Egglesfield as Dex
- John Krasinski as Ethan
- Steve Howey as Marcus
- Ashley Williams as Claire
- Geoff Pierson as Dexter Thaler Sr.
- Jill Eikenberry as Bridget Thaler
- Jonathan Epstein as Professor Zigman
- Leia Thompson as Bridal Consultant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
15%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The film seems to think that we will find something entertaining about Darcy just because she's played by Kate Hudson. It's hard to imagine a worse miscalculation.
Eric D. Snider, Film.com
Rotten
"Inept and implausible in almost every way, Something Borrowed is the smug rom-com answer to the Apatowian man-child comedy."
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
The movie strains far too hard to make what Rachel and Dex have done all right, as if their guilty anguish - and the movie's saccharine score - frees us to root for them.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten
In Something Borrowed, Kate Hudson looks exhausted, as if she is as tired of wading through another one of her feckless duds as we are of watching them.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
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