Synopsis
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
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Cast
- Jeff BridgesAndy
- Lauren GrahamPeggy
- Ted DansonMoose
- Tim Blake NelsonBarney
- Joe PantolianoSome Idiot
- Patrick FugitEmmett
- William FichtnerOtis
- John HawkesMoe
- Glenne HeadlyHelen
- Jeanne TripplehornThelma
Recommendations
- 75
Rolling Stone
You'll notice that the actors are way overqualified for this nonsense. But the kick they get out of one another is what pulls you in. Traeger's script does more than strain credulity, it administers multiple fractures. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film clicks briefly when capturing the silliness of XXX concerns, especially in script-development scenes. But whatever hilarity might have prevailed on the set doesn't translate to the screen. Intrusive music and last-act contrivances do nothing to lift the flat tone or allow the film to earn its intended emotional payoff. - 50
L.A. Weekly
The Amateurs is nothing if not easy to watch. Yet, as a writer, Traeger is consternatingly adolescent and glib. - 33
Portland Oregonian
All this star power goes for naught in Traeger's film, which tries to blend bucolic sweetness with juvenile let's-make-a-porno jokes. - 30
Los Angeles Times
There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part. - 25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A sleazy, uninspired, pathetically unfunny sex farce.
