Synopsis
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
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Cast
- David DuchovnyGus
- Nicky KattHitler
- Catherine KeenerLee
- Mary McCormackLinda
- David Hyde PierceCarl
- Julia RobertsFrancesca / Catherine
- Blair UnderwoodCalvin / Nicholas
- Brad PittBrad Pitt / Himself
- Enrico ColantoniArty / Ed
- Erika AlexanderLucy
Recommendations
- 70
L.A. Weekly
The movie remains fragmented, elliptical and overplotted to the point of being hard to track. Still, it's worth hanging in for the finish, a birthday party for Gus (David Duchovny), the producer of the film and the one person they're all linked to. Then Soderbergh pulls off a delicious trick, a gesture of pure, tender, unabashed movie love that makes up for everything. - 67
Portland Oregonian
Feels like a tonic for its makers, a means of clearing the palate after a series of rich meals. For viewers who appreciate risks, it should be just as refreshing. - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Keener makes this sometimes inert but always intimate tale of love and ambition burst with dynamic energy. Keener doesn't just have attitude, she has maditude. - 63
Chicago Tribune
It's a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it, offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern L.A.'s show-biz and media subcultures. But it doesn't leave you with much. - 63
Miami Herald
It's the summer's most avant-garde experiment, and those who hate it (and there will be plenty) will complain the movie doesn't have a point. Then again, neither did Seinfeld, and look how that turned out. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Far from a great film, but it certainly stretches the envelope. - 50
New York Post
You can't get much more perverse than asking Julia Roberts to wear fright wigs, do her own frumpy makeup and costumes -- and then shoot her scenes in eyeball-gougingly ugly digital video. - 38
Charlotte Observer
You could dismiss it, as I do, as an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle.
