Catch and Release
Catch and Release
PG-13 | 20 October 2006 (USA)
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For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

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Gordon-11

This film tells the story of a woman whose fiance died before the wedding. She and the fiance's three best friends grief in different ways.It is a film that sits between a romantic comedy and a drama. It is likable, and the drama elements are not too depressing. The film actually keeps a light hearted atmosphere, despite the circumstances.

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SnoopyStyle

This movie starts with the funeral of Gray (Jennifer Garner)'s fiancé Grady. His friend Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) has sex with a server. Dennis (Sam Jaeger) is insanely responsible and his other friend Sam (Kevin Smith) is having his own difficulties. But Fritz is hiding a secret. Grady has been sending $3000 a month to a woman (Juliette Lewis) in LA.For a movie starting from a funeral, this has a lot of light hearted humor. Most of that is due to Kevin Smith's work. Writer/director Susannah Grant has put on a complicated heart warming struggle. It's not an easy subject to go from a depressed angry place. Jennifer Garner makes those parts work. The movie struggles when it gets to more traditional rom-com space. Overall there are enough interesting moments and Kevin Smith cracking jokes to make this a good movie.

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copperncherrio

Essentially, it's Jennifer Garner mourning the death of her fiancée… during her grieving process she finds out that her fiancée has a child as well as a secret bank account that she didn't know about. She deals with the information while meeting her fiancée best friend, who knows about his dead friend's secret child.It's a bit predictable and a typical plot, but I can't say that it wasn't enjoyable. I must say at certain points of the movie it was like… really? Did we really need this side plot? It just makes the main character look like a douche and is just an excuse to transition from scene to another. URGH.You get what you expect: minimal feelings with a good supporting cast. Best watched near the fireplace while snowing outside, this movie is just a simple watch. There's not a lot of emotions to it or surprises, but it goes at a familiar pace.

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MartianOctocretr5

Film is a schizophrenic hodge-podge of elements from chick flick sentimentality and a frat beer drinking party sideshow. The attempt to mix the two is handled with little cohesion, and never seals the deal for either audience (and certainly falls short of appealing to both, which is what it seems to want).We meet a grieving woman (Jennifer Garner) who was engaged, but her fiancé dies just before the wedding. That would seem to be an emotional story of healing and moving on, right? Wrong. At the funeral, we meet his idiot friends (Kevin Smith and two other jokers, all who turn in rotten performances). What one of them is doing at the funeral home is appalling; to put it bluntly, the guy is a jerk. OK, so it's supposed to be a sophomoric comedy? Wrong again.Grit your teeth, there's still more clichéd characters coming. Enter the blonde bimbo, and her weird kid. A lot of the plot revolves around these two. She mumbles about yoga; the kid just stands around robotically throwing CD's on the floor. Real cute; I wanted to throw a ten ton crate of CD's on his head. Anyway, these two have a secret that drives the plot along. Presence of kid = suspicion. If you catch my drift.People do stuff that doesn't add up. There's a romance that has as much chemistry as two patches of dead seaweed. The attraction makes no sense, either, in light of earlier events in the story. Most characters suddenly change in odd ways, rather than evolve logically. Random sight gags evoke no laughs. The kid continues to be obnoxious.Nobody in the cast except for Garner makes any effort; they just don't seem to care. Even Ben-Jen's work here is not quite up to par, in light of her proved potential in other roles.The ending is ridiculous (and about as likely as the odds of winning a 50 million dollar lottery). It's like somebody tagged it on, because they didn't know how to close out the thing. The movie never does figure out which genre(s) it wants to be, either.

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