Four boring characters, a painfully unfunny road trip and drama that's not quite as convincing as a daytime soap opera add up to a wretched time in this redneck romantic comedy.
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10/18/08
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:5
Rotten:32
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: The humor is on the level of a corny sitcom, and the tone is condescending.
Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton, Natasha Richardson, Charlize Theron, and Patrick Swayze star in this redneck road trip comedy that is a twisted mixture of the 1969 wife-swapping classic BOB & CAROL & TED &... [More]
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Charlize Theron, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson
Director: Jordan Brady
Reviews for Waking Up in Reno
Top CriticLike Pabst Blue Ribbon, which the characters drink by the case, this bubba comedy about cheating spouses is good for a cheap buzz.
05/15/09
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04/29/09
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11/13/07
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10/06/05
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07/21/05
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03/10/05
A lot of weirdness from otherwise good actors.
02/10/05
A bushel of yokel gags and labored boudoir misunderstandings ... culminating with a tipping-the-bellhop gag that first appeared in cave paintings.
01/21/05
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11/24/04
...it's hard to imagine what these four stars saw in the script...
07/27/03
I can't begin to tell you how tedious, how resolutely unamusing, how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is, and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents...
05/03/03
Everyone's to blame here.
03/28/03
It won't harm anyone, but neither can I think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it. After all, it'll probably be in video stores by Christmas, and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies.
11/12/02
The whole damn thing is ripe for the Jerry Springer crowd. It's all pretty cynical and condescending, too.
11/03/02
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11/02/02
Brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors ... by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable.
10/31/02
It would be disingenuous to call Reno a great film, but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex. This is a movie that is what it is: a pleasant distraction, a Friday night diversion, an excuse to eat popcorn.
10/29/02
I like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material, but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort.
10/29/02
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