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NUMBERS
Box Office: $553,102
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CONSENSUS
Muddled and lacking the political context of the original, Swept Away offers further proof that Madonna can't act.
CAST & CREW
Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood
Directed by Guy Ritchie
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SYNOPSIS
MADONNA and ADRIANO GIANNINI star in director/screenwriter GUY RITCHIE'S contemporary adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 romantic comedy "Swept Away," a story of love, sex, drugs and too much money -- all set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean island paradise. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language and some sexuality/nudity
RUNTIME
89 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 11, 2002
Video: Feb 11, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Comedy, Romance, Remake, Romantic Comedy, Affairs, Sex, Sadomasochism (S&m), Islands
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Swept Away Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "After seeing SWEPT AWAY, I feel sorry for Madonna."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"We hate [Madonna] within the film's first five minutes, and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"This remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since John and Bo Derek made the ridiculous Bolero."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"The best that can be said about the work here of Scottish director Ritchie ... is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head, but he knows how to pose Madonna."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Not just unlikable. Disturbing. Disgusting. Without any redeeming value whatsoever."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"It feels like a community theater production of a great Broadway play: Even at its best, it will never hold a candle to the original."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"As an actress, Madonna is one helluva singer. As the Mediterranean sparkles, 'Swept Away' sinks."
-- Susan Granger, REC.ARTS.MOVIES.REVIEWS
"What an embarrassment."
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Writer-director Ritchie reduces Wertmuller's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"This is for the most part a useless movie, even with a great director at the helm."
-- Eric Lurio, GREENWICH VILLAGE GAZETTE
"On top of a foundering performance, [Madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag."
-- Paul Malcolm, L.A. WEEKLY
"The only thing “swept away” is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time."
-- Nell Minow, MOVIE MOM
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"Glazed with a tawdry B-movie scum."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"Festers in just such a dungpile that you’d swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"This isn't even Madonna's Swept Away. This is her Blue Lagoon."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"When cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy Giannini, Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted, from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact Amber is such a joke."
-- Evan Henerson, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Madonna has made herself over so often now, there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like Michael Jackson's nose."
-- Brandon Judell, POPCORNQ
"What is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy, an inkling of genuine wit, and anything resembling acting."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Staggeringly dreadful romance."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Ritchie's film is easier to swallow than Wertmuller's polemical allegory, but it's self-defeatingly decorous."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Deserving of its critical backlash and more."
-- Clint Morris, MOVIEHOLE
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ROTTEN 16%
Avg. Rating: 3.5/10 |
"New ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Like life on the island, the movie grows boring despite the scenery."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"A better title, for all concerned, might be Swept Under the Rug."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Neither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment. Still, it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"It's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie."
-- Randy Cordova, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"This rough trade Punch-and-Judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
 "Sound the trumpets: For the first time since Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna doesn't suck as an actress."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"What Madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately, it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing, sometimes all at once."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Is it a comedy? A drama? A romance? A cartoon?"
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"The histrionic muse still eludes Madonna and, playing a charmless witch, she is merely a charmless witch."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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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 "Swept Away" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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