This charmless ensemble comedy starts out amiably enough, but quickly succumbs to the triple handicap of poor direction, a badly written script and some alarmingly excessive performances.
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08/03/09
Friends and Lovers (1999)
8
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:1
Rotten:12
Average Rating:2.3/10
Synopsis: An ensemble dramedy in which several twenty/thirty-somethings go on a ski trip, and fumble and bumble their way through sexual encounters and pseudo-intellectual conversations.
Starring: Robert Downey, Claudia Schiffer, Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci
Director: George Haas
Reviews for Friends and Lovers
1 - 14 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Downey at least seems to be having fun, but the rest of the cast runs the gamut from bland (Eastwood, León) to downright awful (Schiffer, Baldwin).
08/03/09
Writer-director George Haas' debut feature offers nothing as it strains to be funny and provocative.
03/26/09
Top CriticAt least Alison Eastwood and Suzanne Cryer are good at getting naked.
12/06/05
No review available.
08/22/05
No review available.
01/29/05
The gags and situations are but repetitions and variations on dull, ribaldly worn and reject elementary Farrelly Brothers scribing.
02/27/01
While Stephen Baldwin as headliner is hardly comforting, nuanced performances by Alison Eastwood, Suzanne Cryer, and George Newbern make this watchable at least.
01/01/00
[An] early contender for most inept comedy and worst film of the year.
01/01/00
A movie that operates on a level of such staggering ineptitude that its very existence is offensive.
01/01/00
There is no structure or dramatic tension to the film, which is just a bunch of aimless scenes of people exchanging witless, pseudo-hip dialogue.
01/01/00
A cold, stupid bore about people with no goodness, just geniality; no inner life, just impulses.
01/01/00
This movie is not merely bad, but incompetent. I get tapes in the mail from 10th graders that are better made than this.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn inept farce with the mentality of a tittering 15-year-old boy peering under the bedcovers with a flashlight.
01/01/00
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