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NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,341,151
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CONSENSUS
Though predictable and sometimes overly sentimental, Evelyn still manages to be heartwarming.
CAST & CREW
Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies
Directed by Bruce Beresford
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SYNOPSIS
Pierce Brosnan stars as Desmond Doyle, an Irishman whose troubles mount after his philandering wife runs away with another man. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, thematic material and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 34 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 13, 2002
Video: Apr 15, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, Romance, Family Film, Ireland, 1950s
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Evelyn Site
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 "The production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as Bond in Die Another Day."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"One of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart. It really is a shame that more won’t get an opportunity to embrace small, sweet 'Evelyn.'"
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
 "Brosnan's finest non-Bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"In a season of strenuously ambitious art, the laid-back modesty and accessible charm of Evelyn is a welcome relief."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"A formula family tearjerker told with a heavy Irish brogue...accentuating, rather than muting, the plot's saccharine thrust."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Manipulative claptrap, a period-piece movie-of-the-week, plain old blarney... take your pick. All three descriptions suit Evelyn, a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Enjoy it for what it is; you can hate yourself later."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"As saccharine movies go, this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"Like Brosnan’s performance, Evelyn comes from the heart."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"An unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Corny, schmaltzy and predictable, but still manages to be kind of heartwarming, nonetheless. It's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain. At all."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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"The story is naturally poignant, but first-time screenwriter Paul Pender overloads it with sugary bits of business."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"The film is one of the year’s best."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"The movie has a script (by Paul Pender) made of wood, and it’s relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"One of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you, with every scene, that it could never really have happened this way."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Since this film is based on an injustice that really happened and changed Ireland's law that separates children from their parents, it's wonderful to see that the good guys defeated the meanies in the end."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"The film’s lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the TV movie-esque, affected child acting to the dullest Irish pub scenes ever filmed."
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings."
-- Chuck Rudolph, SLANT MAGAZINE
"A conventional, but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in Ireland over a man's right to raise his own children."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story, but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention."
-- Josh Ralske, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
"It's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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FRESH 81%
Avg. Rating: 6.5/10 |
"Evelyn may be a weightless picture, but it's hardly torture to sit through."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"The film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"If the real-life story is genuinely inspirational, the movie stirs us as well."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Intelligent and moving."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Despite a story predictable enough to make The Sound of Music play like a nail-biting thriller, its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"So verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-TV movie."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, and Alan Bates play Desmond's legal eagles, and when joined by Brosnan, the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty Irish settings is a pleasant enough thing, 'tis."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"This is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It's traditional moviemaking all the way, but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Evelyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning, heartwarming yarn."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"I'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than Evelyn this year."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Evelyn" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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