Product Description

For kiki being the personal assistant to beautiful megastar gwen isnt easy. In fact its nearly impossible since the man of her dreams is eddie. Gwens estranged husband. Kiki is given the monumental task of helping gwen and eddie make it through a press junket organized by publicity exec lee phillips. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 07/19/2005 Starring: Julia Roberts Catherine Zeta-jones Run time: 103 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Joe Roth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11369 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2001-10-30
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Amazon.com
America's Sweethearts is just the kind of romantic froth that makes for pleasant viewing on a lazy, rainy day. While Julia Roberts, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones offer high-wattage marquee value, costar and cowriter Billy Crystal reworks Singin' in the Rain for latter-day Hollywood, where estranged superstars Gwen (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (Cusack) reluctantly promote their latest movie by pretending their messily disputed relationship is still going strong. The studio chief (Stanley Tucci) is desperate for a hit, so he hires a seasoned publicist (Crystal) to orchestrate a press junket that will cast everyone in a profitable light. The catch: The director (Christopher Walken) has abducted his own film in an act of artistic extortion, and Gwen's sister and longtime assistant Kiki (Roberts) is the true object of Eddie's desire.

Chaos ensues at the luxury hotel where the junket is scheduled, and America's Sweethearts pokes easy fun at the cynical machinery that keeps Hollywood running. Quotable quips are delivered in abundance, and while Zeta-Jones is readily convincing as a bitchy narcissist, Roberts effortlessly steals the show with her trademark charms. All of which makes America's Sweethearts lightly entertaining, even though it never rises (like Roberts's earlier Notting Hill) to the level of classic romantic comedy, hampered by a script that too often substitutes easy laughs for ripe satirical invention, flashing a phony grin when it should be baring its fangs. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Though set in the present, this movie-industry farce, written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan and directed by Joe Roth, comes off as a lamely nostalgic attempt at screwball comedy. It's puckish and remote: the filmmakers, lacking the heart to confront the Hollywood of today, never achieve any kind of vital satirical tone. John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones play a married couple who have starred in picture after picture together but have fallen out of love. Julia Roberts is a Cinderella figure who loses weight and blooms after years of servitude. As ersatz as the role is, Roberts fires up that smile and becomes the best thing in the movie. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Far Below It's Cast
Shallow. That pretty much sums up this film which is neither heartwarming nor sweet and derives most of it's humor from crude jokes and sophomoric antics.

Awesome Actors
Casting was wonderful with Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta Jones, Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria, Seth Green, Christopher Walken and many more big name actors. They gave an awesome performance. Each of the actors did there part with realism. One would believe that this is truly how actors lives are and all about press junkets. Seth Green was a great choice for comic relief. A must for all movie collectors!

under-rated
This movie was hilarious and under-rated. Zeta-Jones does a great job playing a total self-absorbed actress witch willing to do anything to salvage her movie career, Roberts is under-stated (nice for a change), and Cusak is nice to look at, and always does a great job acting ("High Fidelity" being best of his yet). Other cast members are equally hilarious. I think this movie is definitely worth a watch for mindless fun.