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The Romantics
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Oscar® winner Anna Paquin and Katie Holmes lead an all-star cast in The Romantics: a generational “dramedy” about friendship, rivalry and loyalty. Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor (Holmes) and the groom (Duhamel) share a passionate history, and the bride (Paquin) isn’t the only one who’s wondering if it’s all in the past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics proves that nothing complicates friendship like love.
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The Romantics sets up a delicious premise, a reunion for a wedding of two of a group of college friends, now making their way in their late 20s. In the vein of movies like The Big Chill, Peter's Friends, and Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Romantics has friends who may not exactly be friends, marriages that may not exactly be happy, and longing passions that may not exactly be secret. The all-star cast includes Katie Holmes (who gives a real leading-actress performance here, behind her sleek glamour), Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody, Dianna Agron, and Candice Bergen. Paquin is the blushing (and insecure) bride, Holmes her maid of honor, and Duhamel the groom-to-be who had a long romantic past with Holmes's character. Is that passion truly behind them? The groom's wedding weekend might not be the best time to find out, but that's what makes The Romantics compulsively watchable.
Indie writer and director Galt Niederhoffer wrote the book The Romantics and then adapted it for the screen and directed. The acting is natural, and the setting--a sumptuous estate on beachy Long Island--inviting and real. The Romantics asks age-old questions of what does it mean to be a couple, what do words like "connection" and "commitment" mean, and is our first love really love--or does our memory play tricks on us? The DVD includes a making-of featurette that is almost as entertaining as The Romantics itself. If it looks like a grand old time was being had by the cast at the mansion, the cast members happily insist that was true. A toast to the bride and groom! --A.T. Hurley
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : s_medPG13 PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.56 Ounces
- Item model number : PARD193154D
- Director : Galt Niederhoffer
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 35 minutes
- Release date : February 8, 2011
- Actors : Josh Duhamel, Katie Holmes
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Studio : Paramount
- ASIN : B004EYT590
- Number of discs : 1
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Not funny. Not romantic. It was like watching 8 or so millenial trainwrecks get drunk and/or high while they either mess up thier relationship or try to figure out why they are in thier relationship or try to 'discover' who they are. Man - it was painful to watch. Then it just ends! What? So you are left with 3-4 plot lines just out there with no finish.
Drivel.
I wouldn't agree with the one star reviews, nor with the five star. Hence the half way house. Here's why:
The film is about people who have absolutely no sense of self, and thus cannot have this thing called self-integrity. There is not an ounce of integrity in the words or actions. It isn't romantic, it's ridiculous. However real life can be like this, people can be this lost and pointless. So its true to life for those whose lives are without any awareness, integrity, honesty, maturity or authenticity. So is it creatively inspired for the film's script, conversational exchanges, emotional displays, infidelity and relationships to be as pointless and without awareness as the characters themselves? Maybe. If the director and author of the tome the film is based on, intended it. If they didn't it's comical that it's all pointless and not even the director or author or scriptwriters had enough awareness to intend the lack of intention the characters evoke. Soooo here's a question. Do you want to spend some time that is unintended and creates the same premise as a cat or dog chasing it's own tail, not knowing the tail is attached to it's own body? Then this film is for you. Or if you know clueless people, point them to it, maybe starring at their own lack of direction in an hour and a half length film will set them straight. Hence three stars, just as undecided and unclear as the film. Lol neither bad, nor good, neither here nor there. What now?
