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Lovely and Amazing |  | Director: Nicole Holofcener
Actors: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Troy Ruptash, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D8152D
ISBN: 158817655X
UPC: 031398815228
EAN: 9781588176554
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: November 26, 2002
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/25/2004 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R
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I didn't want this movie to end. Lovely & Amazing centers around two sisters--Michelle (Catherine Keener), a would-be artist, and Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), a fledgling actress. Both are grappling with their mother's (Brenda Blethyn) going in for liposuction, the erratic behavior of their adopted sister (Raven Goodwin), and the flounderings of their love lives. Because her husband is having an affair, Michelle has a fling with a 17-year-old (Jake Gyllenhaal); meanwhile, Elizabeth breaks up with her sincere boyfriend (James LeGros) and falls into bed with a glib movie star (Dermot Mulroney). But no plot description will capture the exquisite pleasures of this movie; Lovely and Amazing is a superb kaleidoscope of moments, each new fragment shifting the whole into a new delightful pattern. The entire cast is outstanding; the script and direction of Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking) are subtle, funny, and sharply observed. --Bret Fetzer
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 Heartkindness paid nothing September 27, 2009
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
It is a story of going-liposuction mother and grandmother having an eight old daughter of Afro-American background adopted to entertain herself as two biological daughters (an artist turned film technician in a shop run by seventeen year old sex-sick school pupil and an actress uncomfortable in shooting sex-scenes with strangers) struggle with their personal and financial situations.
At the end of the day the actress is paid for her heartkindness (to stray animals at least) with a dog disfigures her main asset her face is.
One reason to watch it: Brenda Blethyn April 13, 2009
Cynthia (Los Angeles, CA)
Brenda Blethyn is in this movie. She's one of my favorite actresses and has been since `Secrets and Lies'. Here she's, are you ready for it, quirky! And has two quirky adult daughters and adopted a third daughter who might out do them all in the quirky department. These people are sad but it's hard not to like them. I didn't understand the inclusion of pedophilia in such a comic movie. It barely works in serious movies as `Little Children' and `Notes on Scandal'. The light treatment of it bothered me. By the end there did seem to be some emotional growth for all the characters as they rushed off to get mom from the hospital where she'd undergone liposuction. Sheesh. It's not a bad movie but it's hard to understand why it was made. Even the title highlights some of the frothy dialog.
 Maybe She Was A Good Swimmer August 21, 2008
Jeff Miller (toronto, canada)
It drives me mad to read reviews posted about this beautiful film that describe it as a chick-flick or a women's film or the most stomach-churning of them all, L.A.'s version of Sex and the City. Unbelievably narrow and blind to the universal (but uncomfortable) truths about all of us, men and women, that run through this remarkably written and performed film. Lovely and Amazing is one of my favourite films of the last 10 years because the writer and director, Nicole Holofcener is one of the very rare American directors who actually makes films about who we are and why we behave the way we do. In my opinion, she seems intensely interested in examining how human beings interact with each other and the oftentimes uncomfortable, awkward and disheartening compromises each one of us makes every day just to keep going. This has nothing to do with one gender or the other. There is nothing in Elizabeth's (Emily Mortimer's character) narcissism and self-absorption that doesn't ring true for myself and 90% of my friends (again - men and women) who are actors, writers, artists struggling to make a name for themselves. Catherine Keener's character, Michelle, and her sense of being lost and rudderless in the world seemingly filled with others her age who are focussed and achieving so much of what they always wanted, unfortunately reminds me of myself and my inability sometimes to deal with the real world. The way the Marks' daughters relate (and don't relate) to each other and their mother is so sensitively and realistically done I can only marvel at Holofcener's courage to put the truth right up there on the screen. Near the end of the film is a scene in a McDonald's (brilliant choice) between Catherine Keener and Raven Goodwin's characters - sisters who have never really understood each other. Their tenuous connection during this scene and the heartbreaking realization of Annie Marks (Goodwin) that her real mother may have been more than just one unpleasant thing - a drug addict - that she may have been a good swimmer - something Annie so very much wants to be, makes this scene one that I go back to in my mind almost every day. This scene is a revelation because it is so exquisitely written and played and because it speaks to every single one of us watching who has ever, for the sake of making ourselves feel better about who we are, described someone else as one thing - Oh, He's an actor; Oh, She's an alcoholic; Oh, He's old; Oh, She's a college dropout; Oh, He's a bitch. Yes. Sure. Maybe he/she is. But maybe she's a good swimmer.
As well.
Bravo to Nicole Holofcener. I eagerly await her 2009 project.
A womens' movie for men August 4, 2008
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Hey, I liked this chick flick because the acting is great, the script is intelligent and the plot makes sense. The soundtrack is good. It may feature some Hollywood actors like a young Jake Gyllenhall, but the ambience is completely indie and that's a great thing in a small movie. This is better than most blockbusters. It will make you relate to the human condition.
Life in La La Land May 16, 2007
R. Swanson (New Mexico)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
There are some good things in this film. No 1 is the performance of Catherine Keener, who has the ability to make even the most odious of characters likable. ('loved her in Being John Malkovich) The next best thing is the performance of Raven Goodwin, who makes every scene she's in a delight. (Whoever did her hair in the last scenes should have won an Oscar.) Next: the always adorable Jake Gyllenhaal, playing a nerdy 17 who falls for the Keener character. (Whoever did his hair, though, should be fired...it's sooo black and shiney!) Next: a small part by Dermot Mulroney, resembling a young Sylvester Stallone--very cute.
The dialogue is smart. I found the pacing quick and it held my interest. The other actors are good enough. There are some worthy ideas introduced. I loved the scene with Gyllenhal and Keener in the car and later, the one with Keener and Goodwin in MacDonalds.
On the negative side: gee--these women are so damned spoiled, self centered and highly unrealistic! We're supposed to care about them but they make it hard! The Emiy Mortimer character is about as sexy or interesting as a dishrag, and has the same amount of presence. Who could imagine her succeeding as an actress? She should definitely get a job in an animal shelter. The Keener character has delusions of grandeur, trying to peddle off her childish crafts as "art" at ridiculous prices. When she got a job at the one-hour photo, it was the best thing she ever did, (after giving birth.) However these girls didn't stand a chance, with the mothering given them by the smart talking (supposedly) mom who doesn't have a good word to say about any men, but wants the plastic surgeon to like her. The answer to her problems is liposuction.
I suppose this will amuse or touch people who can identify with these people more than I could. It seems like there's a lot of talent here that could better be used on something a little more weighty.
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