ThiefHott Too much of everything

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

dansview I like to have someone to root for,even in a romantic comedy. For the first half of this picture, I didn't have that. The woman was a player, the men were either obnoxious idiots, or disengaged losers, and there was little character development to most of them.That's why I clicked out of netflix at the halfway point. But I wound up giving it another chance the next day and watched the second half. OK, it redeemed itself. Just barely, but I'll give it some credit.I liked the concept: Four grown buddies who bond over rowing on the Delware River and find both love and themselves.Philadelphia looked absolutely great, if that's where it was actually filmed.There were some questionable morality issues, but they resolved themselves for the most part by the end.Sean Astin was his usual self. Not much of a stretch there. If you like his general routine, you will like him here. (Carefree, blue collar, slovenly, short guy) Gabrielle Anwar is about 7 years past her prime beauty era from Scent of a Woman and For Love or Money. Now she is also speaking in a British accent, which I think is her normal voice. (she played Americans in those other two films) In this film, she is at times wiry, and shows her age in terms of forehead wrinkles and some anguished facial expressions toward the end. Nevertheless, she is appealing, and you can understand why the guys like her.I liked the last scene very much. Without spoiling it, you see that the men have found their piece of the happiness pie.

elshikh4 Everything was on the top, except the script; so welcome to the movies' kiss of death ! The sensitive directing, the witty acting, the smooth cinematography, the romantic editing, and the cute music, all of that with all the bona fides in the world couldn't save this movie, or any movie, from fallen dawn on its face without a solid script.Simply, let's review the situation. A girl that slept with nearly 3 guys together in the same time and in the name of friendship ! Well.. That's the definition of a whore in at least my dictionary. Then, it was this girl's trick to rectify 4 men she knows, what a way to do it ?? And let alone the very obvious wink to us about very certain one of them as the real dad, lover, and the real deal altogether, since he was the only one who became ready to marry (boring naive scenes about that with his psychiatrist!), and the one without something compensatory to fill its life, even the one she was pulling his tie on the door of the operation's room, so after all, this script managed well to be not only provocative when it comes to its idea, a bit fabricated as a romantic comedy, but also the worst of all : predictable ! Therefore, the video's title : Daddy Who? Would be silly question already since the first act ! Compared to that, else matters can be slight : the rich guy loves his secretary just like that ! The girlfriend of the professor forgave him easily at the end.. I think that's ordinary as it was (Frederic Golchan)'s first screenplay, who's originally a producer, and his first as a director too. It was his first and last attempt, in both writing and directing, yet. And it wasn't bad at all. It was kind of favorable.Actually, it got some wonderful time, delicate feel, and refreshing images. For little instance look at Kimberly's intro moving on wheels floating like a fantasy. In so many moments it reminded me of the 1960s' polished romantic comedies, especially one named (Boys' Night Out - 1962). The 4 guys were fine, maybe too fine here in specific. (Gabrielle Anwar) whom I was obsessed about when I was about 20-year-old (after passionate love story with Meg Ryan!) deals with the matter perfectly; she's a very good actress, truly spontaneous, and magically attractive that the major studios in Hollywood must miss. At the start I thought of modern (Audrey Hepburn) but she turned out to be wholly another flavor. A great deal of the movie's romantic sense relied on the chemistry between her and the 4 actors. If only with another script ! I pity that all of the movie's clear cleverness had been founded on a shaky ground. So it looked eventually like the tower of Pisa in Italy; lovely but leaning.

George Parker "Kimberly" tells of an SWF (Anwar) who is recruited as a coxswain by a four man rowing team. This simple minded story follows the four relationships which ensue. Fraught with inferiority in all aspects, "Kimberly" is a waste of time for all but the most diehard romantic comedy junkies. The script is unimaginative, the screen play amateurish, and the only believable actor is Anwar with the rest mechanically going through one silly scenario after another. Contrived, predictable, naive, silly, etc. In a word, just plain lame.

patdukfan Well, ever since I read about the making of this movie all the way back in the fall of 1998, I've been anxiously awaiting to see this film on the big screen. Being a huge Patty Duke fan and someone who really respects the work of her son, Sean Astin, I couldn't wait to see it. The fact that it's filmed here in Philly helped me want to really see it too.When I got to meet Ms. Duke while she was filming her Patty Duke reunion tv movie up in Montreal in 12/98, I asked her about this film. She said it was an odd little film, that her son Sean was in. She just had a cameo in it, as the doctor who delivers the baby towards the end of the film, and if you blinked, you'd miss her. She also said that her son called her up begging her to do it because the person originally hired for the part had to bail out at the last minute and they were stuck, and had to shoot it in a few days. Before Sean could go any further, Patty said to him "Honey, now, let's get to the important part: what are they gonna be paying me?!"She said of her one day on the set that Sean, being the ever so protective son, made everyone stop cursing around the set. Patty then turned to Sean and asked "Does this mean I have to stop cursing too??".With a great cast including, Sean, Molly Ringwald, Chris Rydell, the ever so handsome Scott Lewis, and Gabrielle Anwar as the title charecter, you can't go wrong, even if it's only on a measly two million dollar budget. Let's just say that you can't tell while watching that it was so low budget.The only problem I had with it was that it was way too obvious to me who, out of the four men, the father was, since he was presented in a different way than the others a little later in the film.Laine Kazan is hysterical as Rydell's shrink and of course Patty Duke is brilliant in her 4 minute role as Doctor Feinstenberger (love that name!)All and all---a beatiful ensemble piece with great direction and an eloquent score!