IMDb plot summary: A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.
Directed by Joe Roth. Starring Julia Roberts, John Cusack, and Billy Crystal.
America's Sweethearts is a movie about movie stars -- two rom com celebrities who are married in real life, only to have a dramatic public breakup. Now this couple, played by John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones, are reuniting for their press junket for the final movie they made together. Their agent, played by Billy Crystal, and the sister/personal assistant of Zeta-Jones, played by Julia Roberts, try to keep everything running smoothly. This movie teeters just on the edge of being a classic romantic comedy with all the needed laughs and charms to get it there... but it always falls just slightly short. Our characters are a bit too mean, the jokes are a bit too on-the-nose, the romantic moments a bit too unearned. There are some good witty lines but they seem inorganic. I really hoped the characters would gel into place for me by the end, but they don't. Most of it isn't *bad*, just slightly off, and seeing how close it came to being good is maybe more frustrating than if it had been bad. This is maybe one to reconsider in a few years -- if I begin with a negative mental picture of the movie, maybe I'll be more pleasantly surprised by the moments that *do* work.
How it entered my Flickchart:
America's Sweethearts > Dodsworth
America's Sweethearts < Safe
America's Sweethearts < Stargate (1994)
America's Sweethearts < Footlight Parade
America's Sweethearts < Father of the Bride Part II
America's Sweethearts > Mank
America's Sweethearts < The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
America's Sweethearts > Deceiver
America's Sweethearts > Metropolis
America's Sweethearts < The Mummy (1999)
America's Sweethearts < Summer of Soul
America's Sweethearts > We Need to Talk About Kevin
Final spot: #1902 out of 3979, or 52%.
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