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Color
:
Color (DeLuxe)
Genre
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Comedy / Romance
MPAA
:
Rated PG-13 for sexual humor and dialogue.
Runtime
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101 min
Awards
:
2 nominations
Overwiew :Aaaah... it's New York City in 1962, and love is blooming between a journalist (McGregor) and a feminist advice author (Zellweger), who's falling head over heels despite her beau's playboy lifestyle. Office / Pianist / 1960s / Split Screen / Helicopter
Starring :Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Sarah Paulson, David Hyde Pierce, Rachel Dratch, Jack Plotnick, Tony Randall, John Aylward, Warren Munson, Matthew Brandon Ross, Michael Ensign, Timothy Omundson, Jeri Ryan, Ivana Milicevic, Melissa George, Dorie Barton, Laura Kightlinger, Chris Parnell, Robert Katims, Florence Stanley, John Christopher Storey, Peter Spruyt, Turtle, Lynn Collins, David Doty, Jude Ciccolella, Juliette Jeffers, Will Jordan, Brad Hanson, Zachary Quinto, Beth LaMure, Christine Cronenweth, Megan Denton, Melanie Lewis, Sybil Azur, Joanna Collins, Sandra McCoy, Sarah Christine Smith, Norman Fessler, Matt Adler, Maggie Baird, John Cappelletti, Robert Clotworthy, Kat Cressida, Holly Dorff, Terri Douglas, Jessica Gee, John Gidcomb, Bridget Hoffman, Matthew Labyorteaux, Luisa Leschin, Hope Levy, Jessie S. Marion, Caitlin McKenna, Scott Menville, Tony Pope, Jill Remez, Clay Savage, Ron Snow, Steve Staley, Laura Summer, Mark Sussman, Vivien Latham
Producers :
Paddy Cullen, Arnon Milchan, Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
Writers :
Dennis Drake, Eve Ahlert
Critic Reviews
Grade
USA Today - Claudia Puig : ...a ball of fluff that draws smiles, a chortle or two, but not many belly laughs. more...
C+
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...a good-natured but fairly clumsy and increasingly tedious lampoon. more...
C+
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle : ...a very smart, very shrewd movie... more...
A  
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : Down With Love is all surface, and its mocking tone grows grating. more...
C  
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : ...light, funny, and clever. more...
B  
New York Times - A.O. Scott : ...for the most part, intelligent and amusing... more...
B-
New York Post - Megan Lehmann : ...an entertaining diversion that unfortunately fails to fully live up to its promise. more...
B-
Los Angeles Times - Manohla Dargis : ...you have to wonder what he (director Payton Reed) and the screenwriters, Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, thought they were parodying. more...
C-
Hollywood Reporter - Frank Scheck : ...never really decides whether it wants to be an all-out parody or an affectionate recreation. more...
C  
filmcritic.com - Kevin Smokler : It’s very funny, even sweet at times, but not a drag-my-boyfriend-to-it kinda movie... more...
B  
E! Online - ...go for the clothes, and stay for the cotton-candy silliness. : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,88097,00.html more...
Cincinnati Enquirer - Margaret A. McGurk : OK, cute has its place in movies, but sometimes you just gotta say, enough already. more...
C+
Chicago Tribune - Michael Wilmington : ...seems more like an extended TV sketch with a bad case of the cutes. more...
C  
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : Down With Love is no better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think. more...
B  
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