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America's Sweethearts, 2001

Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal

Directed by: Joe Roth

Written by: Billy Crystal

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 102 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:5.7

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The mood of America's Sweethearts is clever, feel good, and humorous. The plot centers around the desire for fame, filmmaking, and showbiz. It features a comedy of errors and silly humor. America's Sweethearts is a comedy and romance movie. Stylistically, it is a film in a film and features an all-star cast. In approach, it is realistic. America's Sweethearts takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The setting is Hollywood. It happens in contemporary times. America's Sweethearts is especially suggested for a date night.

Summary of America's Sweethearts

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. But 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, penned cleverly with cynical insider wit by Crystal and Peter Tolan. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars and gaggles of press 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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	17 July 2001
Runtime:	102 min

Cast and Crew See all

Julia Roberts

as Kathleen "Kiki" Harrison

John Cusack

as Eddie Thomas

Catherine Zeta-Jones

as Gwen Harrison

Billy Crystal

as Lee Phillips

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Chicago Tribune

All these good actors and all Crystal's sass and witty candor can't bring back the heyday of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Or even, most of the time, their off-days. Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

USA Today

This movie is a cookie. A slightly stale generic-brand cookie. Full Review

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by: Susan Wloszczyna

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Even though this film seems to be just another Julia Roberts date movie, it also provides a humorous commentary on what really goes on in Hollywood. This is to Tinseltown what "Analyze This" was to the mafia. Not surprising coming from Billy... Read and rate it

16.March.2009
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by: joosetin
joosetin rated this movie0/10

all star cast...

a movie with a lot of excellent actors. Julia Roberts as the unpopular sister of the great actress Gwen Harrison (Cathrine Zeta-Jones) and John Cusack as Gwen's boyfriend. there is a big thing going between all three of them. their relaions have a... Read and rate it

05.September.2008
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by: rose
rose rated this movie8/10Great

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