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Box Office: $4,186,931
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CONSENSUS
The bitingly truthful Lovely & Amazing is a smart and perceptive female character study.
CAST & CREW
Catherine Keener, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brenda Blethyn
Directed by Nicole Holofcener
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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 "Walking and Talking." more...
MPAA RATING
R, language and nudity
RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 28, 2002
Video: Nov 26, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Lions Gate Films
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Family Interaction, Families, Women
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Lovely & Amazing Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "The performances are an absolute joy."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The characters are complex and quirky, but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "By the end of it all I sort of loved the people onscreen, even though I could not stand them. Perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter. It's not an easy one to review."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"While it may not add up to the sum of its parts, Holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded, and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often."
-- Jeffrey Wachs, REEL.COM
"Brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy, which makes its message resonate."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Part of the long, noble tradition (at least since the '90s) of talky, ensemble-driven American indies."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"Like coming into a long-running, well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"'Lovely and Amazing,' unhappily, is neither...excessively strained and contrived."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Beautifully acted, smart and funny. It steers clear of being a maudlin soap opera normally found on Lifetime."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"A tonic to the stereotypical 'chick flick.'"
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"Any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"A lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family."
-- Ed Scheid, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A brutal and funny work. Nicole Holofcenter, the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully."
-- Nathaniel Rogers, FILM EXPERIENCE
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"Amazing? Not quite. But this film sure is lovely."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Everyone’s insecure in Lovely and Amazing, a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers, daughters and their relationships."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film? I don't think so. Nothing wrong with performances here, but the whiney characters bugged me."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Emerges as something rare, an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one."
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
"Holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out, in all its strange quirks."
-- Lisa Stokes, ORLANDO WEEKLY
""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"
-- Steven Snyder, ZERTINET MOVIES
"Holofcener sees all of her characters as loving and amazing and she spreads the love to each."
-- Vanessa Sibbald, ZAP2IT.COM
"This humorous probe into the lives of four members of an unusual family hits all the right body spots."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Another one of those estrogen overdose movies like "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," except that the writing, acting and character development are a lot better."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Family portrait of need, neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
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"Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Performances are potent, and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"With a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film, Lovely & Amazing involves us because it is so incisive, so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Feels untidily honest."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"It looks closely, insightfully at fragile, complex relationships."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"The auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"In their love for each other and their ability to move on, the women are, in a way, lovely and amazing."
-- Rasmi Simhan, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing, from her own screenplay, jumps to the head of the class of women’s films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"It's amazingly perceptive in its subtle, supportive but unsentimental look at the Marks family."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"I don't think this movie loves women at all."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"Like a skillful fisher, the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* 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 "Lovely & Amazing" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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