| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS (2001) |
| Director | Joe Roth |
| Writer | Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan |
| Lead Actor | Julia Roberts |
| Cast | Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal |
| Genre | Comedy, Romance |
| Release Date | July 20, 2001 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 42m (102 min) |
| Budget | $46 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 5.7/10 |
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AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS
Odd things are happening since movie exhibitors earlier this year gave in to pressure to enforce the ban on under 17s at R-rated movies. Since most producers really want and need younger teens in the audience, a lot of R-rated flicks have been tamed down just enough to qualify as PG 13. Net effect Many PG-13’s are edgy (America’s Sweethearts and The Animal). The R-rated films that remain (American Pie 2) are even raunchier than usual.
What happens in marginal PG-13 films too often is that the moral spirit is still shaggy but the offense is less direct lots of sex talk and taunting, anatomy and toilet jokes.
It’s pathetic in Sweethearts, which offers a nice cast including Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal and Catherine Zeta-Jones. They desperately search for laughs in a hopeful spoof of contemporary Hollywood shallowness and ego. A bad sign is director Joe Roth, the former Disney chief who for two decades has had a mostly anti-Midas touch (everything turns to trash).
Crystal has to bear some hubris as coauthor with Peter Tolan (a writer for TV’s Larry Sanders Show). Crystal, the most likable male character, is a duplicitous PR flack assigned to run a press junket for a new movie at a posh desert hotel near Las Vegas. He must stall reporters until the film is delivered by its eccentric director (Christopher Walken).
Cusack and Zeta Jones are the battling stars whose marriage has collapsed. Roberts is the spoiled superstar’s mousy but lovable subservient sister who loses 60 pounds to become a (shock) smashing beauty. The whole tasteless farce waits for Walken’s film, which (alas) is worse than all that went before. Falls with a thud of disappointment.
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