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CONSENSUS
With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
CAST & CREW
Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs
Directed by Fisher Stevens
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SYNOPSIS
Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sexual images and language
RUNTIME
90 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 27, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Classics
GENRE
Comedies, Romance, Infidelity, Marriage, New York City, Love Affairs, Sex, Dating
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Just a Kiss Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "I’d have to say the star and director are the big problems here."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "Whether Kiss is a future cult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question, but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"Stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people. But it is set in a world that is very, very far from the one most of us inhabit."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths. Marisa Tomei is good, but Just A Kiss is just a mess."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Witty and often surprising, a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"It's an old story, but a lively script, sharp acting and partially animated interludes make Just a Kiss seem minty fresh."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Puts on airs of a Hal Hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going."
-- Karina Montgomery, CINERINA
"None of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life, unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"Fun, flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment."
-- Shirley Sealy, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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"A lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable, but also unlistenable."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"The movie is a mess from start to finish."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look, director Fisher Stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in Waking Life water colors."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"It just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on (or be entertained by)."
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Breen's script has deadpan wit, though it becomes a little labored as it goes along."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"An imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Just a Kiss is a just a waste."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers? Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Uncertain in tone... a garbled exercise in sexual politics, a junior varsity Short Cuts by way of Very Bad Things."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
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ROTTEN 14%
Avg. Rating: 4/10 |
"You're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"It's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except, maybe, that it looks neat."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"For the most part Stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A small independent film suffering from a severe case of Hollywood-itis."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Talkiness isn't necessarily bad, but the dialogue frequently misses the mark."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"What elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander, some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"Stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"[Stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
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