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Cast
- Matthew McConaugheyEd 'Eddie' Pekurny
- Woody HarrelsonRay Pekurny
- Sally KirklandJeanette
- Jenna ElfmanShari
- Martin LandauAl
- Ellen DeGeneresCynthia Topping
- Rob ReinerMr. Whitaker
- Dennis HopperHenry 'Hank' Pekurny
- Elizabeth HurleyJill
- Adam GoldbergJohn
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The results are comical and unexpected -- and just a bit eerie. - 70
The New Republic
The screenplay, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, based on a French film, has enough sharp gags and plot twists to sustain it, with an ending that manages to be nice. - 70
Newsweek
Ron Howard's version is--no surprise--a funny, audience-friendly entertainment that's ultimately less scathing satire than conventional Hollywood romantic comedy outfitted in trendy new clothes. - 70
The New York Times
With down-to-earth comic instincts, it simply invests its story with a loud ring of truth. - 50
Salon
Bleach out the colors, backdate the wardrobes, insert Gary Cooper and Rosalind Russell and you've got one of Frank Capra's lesser films. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Neither a revelation nor a total wash, EDtv is instead solid comic filmmaking. I just can't help but think it could have been so much more. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The laserdisc of media movies - it plays fine, but it's clunky and cumbersome. - 40
Slate
Howard and his writers are so in love with their own hip self-consciousness that it's a wonder they don't feature film critics discussing their movie.
