Sunday, August 27, 2023

America's Sweethearts

America's Sweethearts
Columbia etc.
July 20, 2001
Romcom
DVD
C+

I saw this at the time and thought it was all right.  This time, I was most struck by the following:
  • It's so weird to have the Internet a non-factor in publicity
  • The "Hector" stuff is pretty racist
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones is easily the best part of the movie
  • Billy Crystal co-wrote a script where his character is in a lust-hate relationship with a dog, that parallels the title characters'.
Anyway, it's still watchable but yeah, mostly as a period piece.  Joe Roth directed, five years before Freedomland.

This is on a Julia Roberts "Triple" pack, but I've already rejected Mona Lisa Smile.

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