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America's Sweethearts
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Special Features

 

  • 5 deleted scenes
  • Filmographies
  • Trailer
  • Interactive menu
  • Scene selection

Review

 

A comedy about celebrity, family and other forms of insanity.

Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are America's Sweethearts, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy.

A messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current affair, a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria). When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status and the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film's press junket. Julia Roberts costars as Kiki, Gwen's personal assistant and sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister. Once overweight and severely self-conscious, Kiki's life revolves around her sister's ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors, eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo), maniacal studio heads, and gossip-starved press who will do anything, or anyone, for the next big story.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on America's Sweethearts: 2 out of 5 stars

Average rating (1 review)

Customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars Cute yet highly predictable

DiamondsAreForever | 17/04/2008 | See all DiamondsAreForever's reviews (391) »

At first glance, this seems like your average rom com. Its mildly funny in some places, doesn't require much thinking and has a few decent actors thrown in for good measure. The script is laughable (but not in the way it was meant) and Julia Roberts is so unconvincing as the celebrities ugly ducking assistant. Juvenile gags and horrible miscasting. What should have been a brilliant film with very talented actors (Roberts, Zeta-Jones, Cusak & Crystal) turns out to be one of the least funny and heartwarming rom cams of the past decade. Give this one a miss, folks!

Technical Details

 

Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Seth Green, Alan Arkin, Larry King & Ann Cusack

Joe Roth

12 years and over

2001

Widescreen 2.40:1

English ; Spanish - Dolby Digital (5.1)

English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Hindi ; Spanish

1 hour 39 minutes (approx) (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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