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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
For Kiki (Julia Roberts), being the personal assistant to beautiful megastar Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) isn't easy. In fact, it's nearly impossible since the man of her dreams is Eddie (John Cusack), Gwen's estranged husband. Kiki is given the monumental task of helping Gwen and Eddie make it through a press junket organized by publicity exec Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal). But at this junket, that's all going to change.
" ...caustic and hilarious..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"Fun, funny and filled with laughs." David Sheehan, CBS-TV Los Angeles
" Catherine Zeta-Jones is gorgeously bitchy." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...well cast, with an excellent premise and wicked sense of humor..." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"A slam dunk for Julia Roberts." Desson Howe, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current affair, a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria). When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status and the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film's press junket. Julia Roberts costars as Kiki, Gwen's personal assistant and sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister. Once overweight and severely self-conscious, Kiki's life revolves around her sister's ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity, penned cleverly with cynical insider wit by Crystal and Peter Tolan. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars and gaggles of press together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors, eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo), maniacal studio heads, and gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Filmographies | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Subtitles: English, French | | Deleted Scenes With Director's Introduction | | Theatrical Trailers | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Widescreen & Standard Versions | | Audio: English 2-Channel Dolby Surround, 5.1 Dolby Digital; French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 7/19/2005 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 06393 | | UPC: 00043396063938 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Catherine Zeta-Jones is gorgeously bitchy..." 08/16/2001 p.111-14Los Angeles Times
"...There's a lot to like about AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS....It's well cast, with an excellent premise and a wicked sense of humor..." 07/20/2001 p.1 Sight and Sound
"...[Roth] exercises skilled control here, keeping the pace brisk and unforced..." 11/01/2001 p.38 |
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