Synopsis
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
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Cast
- Renée ZellwegerBarbara Novak
- Ewan McGregorCatcher Block
- Sarah PaulsonVikki Hiller
- David Hyde PiercePeter MacMannus
- Rachel DratchGladys
- Jack PlotnickMaurice
- Tony RandallTheodore Banner
- John AylwardE.G.
- Matt RossJ.B.
- Michael EnsignJ.R.
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle. - 83
Portland Oregonian
it's so much fun because, like Haynes' film, it's made by people with a genuine love for the entertainment they're bringing back to life. You'd have to be a real prude not to go for it. - 80
The A.V. Club
May register most immediately as a snappy whirl of visual gags, double entendres, overheated romance, and comically oversized living quarters, but beneath the exuberance of this fond counterfeit is a heartbeat as powerful as that of any film anchored in the present. - 60
Village Voice
Unfortunately, during the inevitable "what every woman wants" breakdown, Zellweger can't muster Doris Day's detached fume. - 60
Washington Post
It's like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch on a $60 million budget. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Zellweger is a gifted comedienne and her wonky persona sparks here and there, but the humor is so broad that the film is a poor stage for her subtle comedic skills, and she's not photographed well: her face has to be lit just so or it tends to looks strangely distorted. McGregor is terrible casting. - 50
Rolling Stone
What starts as freshly spun cotton candy ends as something pink, sticky and indigestible. You leave the theater wanting to puke it up. - 50
Salon
The fatal flaw of Down With Love... is that in mining what's kitschily amusing about those movies, it also re-creates far too faithfully everything that's unbearable about them.