Winter Break
Winter Break
R | 22 March 2003 (USA)
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Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its absolute fullest out in this spectacular mountain town.

Reviews
Michael Ledo

Matt (Milo Ventimiglia) has a $179,000 in student loans @ 7.92% and has limited opportunities on Wall Street due to the current layoff. He decides to spend some time in Aspen, Colorado because he doesn't have any money. He gets a job as a kid's ski instructor and meets Michelle (Maggie Lawson) the girl of his dreams and one with a boyfriend in New York, Anne Faris in a minor role.The film is a comedy romance and was light on both. It s not a teen sex romp either in spite of the girl in the red hot bra on the DVD cover, that is not in the film. There is no real sex or nudity. It is just implied. 2 F-bombs, but there is some PG-13 style sex talk. A very watered down film no matter what you seek...unless it is a watered down romance....you know the one where the guy at the end returns to the girl to confess his undying love. Please, take your own life if you thought that was a plot spoiler.Available on a DVD 12 pack "Top of the Class."

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Woodyanders

Matt Raymand (a solid and likable performance by Milo Ventimiglia) has trouble finding a good job after graduating from college. Matt decides to spend the winter in Aspen, Colorado with his college buddies. While in Aspen Matt meets and falls in love with the sweet Michelle Casper (an appealing portrayal by Maggie Lawson). This in turn forces Matt to choose between money and a career or following what his heart tells him to do. Writer/director Marvi Banack relates the enjoyably breezy story at a swift pace and maintains an amiable easygoing tone throughout. The engaging main characters display a winningly loose and natural chemistry. The central romance is handled in a smart and straightforward manner without ever degenerating into sappy mush. Moreover, there's a real good-natured sensibility at work in this picture which gives it a substantial dose of sunny charm. It's also acted with considerable zest by a personable cast: Eddie Kaye Thomas as hapless doofus Peter Rothner, Eddie Mills as smooth ladies man Carter Boyd, Justin Ulrich as rowdy party animal Tyler Woods, Rachel Wilson as the brash Kirsten Benston, George Lazenby as friendly old-timer Campbell Grady, and Victor Alfieri as arrogant jerk Vito Ubrissio. The bouncy soundtrack and cool rocking score by Michael Stearns and Christopher Hoag keep things bubbling along. George Mooradian's slick cinematography provides an attractive sparkling look. A pleasant romp.

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Amy Adler

Matt has a Wall Street job waiting for him. This is a good thing because he has a quarter of a million dollars of school debt to begin paying off. Unfortunately, the company merges with another one and, before he even gets to start, Matt is let loose. His college roommates are going to go to Aspen for a year of skiing, low paying jobs, goofing off, and scouting women. Matt, in his despair, decides to join them. It is there that he meets the beautiful Michelle, a young ski instructor. But, horrors! She has a bonafide Wall Street boyfriend and only wants to be pals with Matt. Will Matt be able to find a new path, in life and in love? This is not a bad movie. The principal actors are not picture postcard pretty and that makes them more interesting. The script is typical male humor, mostly, but has some intelligent moments. The Aspen setting is, naturally, quite lovely, a true bonus for all viewers. If you like a storyline of romance and finding oneself among newly graduated college students, you will like this movie. It has a boys will be boys undertow, but hits all the right marks when push comes to shove.

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sdrake1

This movie is one of the most awful I've ever seen. Not only is the dialogue awful, it never ends. You'll think it's ending, but it's not. How long is it, 140, 160 minutes? I don't even know. I do know that I'll never watch it again. It's like someone took a romantic comedy, took out the comedy, then decided to downplay the romance, leaving us with the pile of crap that managed to make its way to the screen. But don't take my word for it, find out for yourself how terrible this film is.

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