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Dominican Rep. Lovely & Amazing
- Original title
- Lovely & Amazing
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 89 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Catherine Keener
Brenda Blethyn
Emily Mortimer
Jake Gyllenhaal
James Legros
Dermot Mulroney
Raven Goodwin- Kristen Dalton
- Dreya Weber
Aunjanue Ellis
Romy Rosemont- Ileen Getz
- Troy Ruptash
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy
- Synopsis
- The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism. Setting the tone of vanity and insecurity, Jane is undergoing cosmetic surgery to alter her figure, but serious complications put her health in real danger. Former homecoming queen Michelle, the eldest daughter, has one daughter of her own and an alienated, unsupportive husband. Elizabeth, the middle sister, has an acting career that is beginning to take off, but is timid and insecure, and habitually relieves her trepidation by taking in stray dogs. Only the youngest sister, Annie, an adopted African American 8-year-old, stands a chance of avoiding the family legacy of anxious self-absorption. If only her intelligence and curiosity will see her through what promises to be a confusing adolescence. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way.
- Awards
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2002: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Supporting Female (Emily Mortimer). 6 Nominations2002: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nom. for Best Supporting Actress (Mortinmer)2003: Satellite Awards: 3 Nominations including Best Screenplay2002: Satellite Awards: 3 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real: It's a rebuke to the shallow 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood.'"
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"Emerges as something rare, an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one. It earns its thesis statement through minute details and a unique grasp of a commonplace problem."
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"Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day."
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"Holofcener is honest enough to present human foibles, not just as weaknesses but as unexpected sources of humor and strength."
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"Holofcenere genuinely wants to make pictures that plug into an audience's need for intimate contemporary comedies. But she doesn't do enough to quench that thirst."
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