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NUMBERS
Box Office: $75,180
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CONSENSUS
Contains some funny moments, but it's still a very lightweight comedy.
CAST & CREW
Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell
Directed by Anthony Russo, Joseph Russo
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SYNOPSIS
It’s the perfect setup… the biggest payoff… the cleanest getaway. It’s the best job you’ve ever heard of. It’s a masterpiece… It’s your Bellini. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language
RUNTIME
86 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 4, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies, Heists, America
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Welcome to Collinwood Site
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 "Feels slight, as if it were an extended short, albeit one made by the smartest kids in class."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
 "It's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since Christopher Walken kinda romanced Cyndi Lauper in The Opportunists."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"While locals will get a kick out of spotting Cleveland sites, the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning Coen brothers envious."
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Despite some comic sparks, Welcome to Collinwood never catches fire."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"A zippy, enormously entertaining heist movie that, with a kind heart at its core, encompasses the styles of yesterday, today, and if we're lucky, maybe even tomorrow."
-- Norm Schrager, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Enjoyably dumb, sweet, and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky, steal a glimpse."
-- Nev Pierce, BBCI FILMS
"It doesn't quite work, but there's enough here to make us look forward to the Russos' next offering."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
"After all the big build-up, the payoff for the audience, as well as the characters, is messy, murky, unsatisfying."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"Like these Russo guys lookin’ for their Mamet instead found their Sturges."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"The off-center humor is a constant, and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery."
-- Harry Haun, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"[A] warm and hugely enjoyable romp."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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"Has a shambling charm...a cheerfully inconsequential diversion."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea."
-- Nicholas Schager, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"This goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring"
-- Frank Ochieng, THEWORLDJOURNAL.COM
"It's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date, but when it comes out on video, it's well worth a rental."
-- Eric Lurio, GREENWICH VILLAGE GAZETTE
"You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Light, cute and forgettable."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"It's often faintly amusing, but the problems of the characters never become important to us, and the story never takes hold."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Droll caper-comedy remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" that's a sly, amusing, laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "Bellini" begins to look like a "real Kaputschnik.""
-- Susan Granger, REC.ARTS.MOVIES.REVIEWS
"You can tell almost immediately that Welcome to Collinwood isn't going to jell."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
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ROTTEN 48%
Avg. Rating: 6.2/10 |
"It's supposed to be a humorous, all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois, tossing around obscure expressions like Bellini and Mullinski, that the compact 86 minutes breezes by."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"A few hours after you've seen it, you forget you've been to the movies."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"The picture runs a mere 84 minutes, but it's no glance. It's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written, beautifully read and, finally, deeply humanizing."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Can't kick about the assembled talent and the Russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers. Still, this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"An enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The doofus-on- the-loose banter of Welcome to Collinwood has a cocky, after-hours loopiness to it. And as with most late-night bull sessions, eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can’t-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Sometimes this modest little number clicks, and sometimes it doesn't."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"This one is a few bits funnier than Malle's dud, if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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