Everyone’s insecure in Lovely and Amazing, a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers, daughters and their relationships.
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11/16/02
Lovely & Amazing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:113
Fresh:96
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: The bitingly truthful Lovely & Amazing is a smart and perceptive female character study.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $4,186,931
Synopsis: Academy-Award nominated actresses Catherine Keener ("Being John Malkovich") and Brenda Blethyn ("Secrets & Lies") star in Nicole Holofcener's follow-up feature to her critically acclaimed debut... [More]
Starring: Catherine Keener, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Reviews for Lovely & Amazing
Top CriticSeldom do movies create focus through spontaneity, but Lovely & Amazing feeds on surprise
08/02/09
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04/29/09
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08/07/08
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07/14/07
Has a lovely feel, interactions that are real & unafraid to broach life's insecurities -- ie: personal appearance from hair to body fat. However, doesn't add up to amazing.
04/23/07
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12/30/06
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02/09/06
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10/07/04
Captures the body-image insecurities of women while delving more than skin-deep into her characters' psyches.
06/25/04
As in Walking and Talking, her comic lament on the evils that brides do to their maids of honor, [Nicole] Holofcener strikes a careful balance between distaff divertissement and stark, semiautobiographical realism.
05/19/04
Not long enough to be a ‘message movie’, but insightful enough to hold our attention while exploring the lives of these characters.
03/02/04
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01/12/04
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
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05/13/03
After this, you'd like to think that the studios might let Holofcener turn her attention to a few more US TV shows. They need talents like her.
03/26/03
A refreshing reminder that not every movie about women must be a hollow, empty, self-indulgent 'chick flick.'
01/28/03
"Lovely and Amazing is a story about real people. These people are insecure about their lives. They aren’t convinced that there’s some inner beauty about them. They see themselves as I suspect most people do, mostly for the flaws. However, these are still
01/10/03
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01/10/03
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