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Amy's O

Amy's O

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Skip this one - it makes bad TV look good
Review: Occasionally funny - very occasionally - overall Amy's O is one big fat flop. Her parents, while played for comedy, are in fact emotionally abusive. They don't appear to have any interest in Amy as their daughter. They see her simply as the potential breeder of their grandchildren. Her publicist is controlling, manipulative, and that is when she isn't completely out of line. (Amy fires her about half way through the film. One wonders why it takes that long.) Her "friends" are a mockery of the idea of friendship, since they do not appear to be capable of accepting her as she is. As for the relationship that is at the core of this movie, the premise is that a bimbo-a-week guy could at the drop of a hat turn into Mr. Sensitivity if only he met the right girl.

There is also a shtick with a Catholic priest, that is so contrived, so stupid, so out of touch with what Catholic priests do that it is hard to conceive that anyone ever thought it was amusing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: GOOD MOVIE
Review: This little film kicks the [...] of the over budgeted Hollywood stuff. (I hope to do the same with my comedies, if I can get some money.) It's no way as good as the classic Woody Allen. The word to describe this movie is INTERESTING, and the price is right. Very nice commentary track. Get it!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: horrendous film
Review: this movie is awful. it starts out seemingly ok, and then becomes tiresomely cliched and extremely boring. this is not an original film at all--did i say 'i love you' too soon? why won't he call the next day?--has been done to death. a far superior film in a similar vein is 'kissing jessica stein,' which i highly recommend.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Terrible--don't waste your money
Review: THis movie is still playing as I am writing this but I feel so strongly that I can't even wait until it is over...
This movie is so clearly trying to be Sex and the City and/or Bridget Jones' Diary but its characters are neither attractive nor endearing; they are rather annoying and overconfident. I actually want the main character to fail. The "love interest" is an unattractive and undeveloped character.
...this "film" is TERRIBLE and tries to sell a paper thin plot with a few well timed shocking sexual dialogues and scenes.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Horrible
Review: This movie was horrible. Full of cliches, bad motivation, unreal situations, and grinding dialogue. I almost always watch an entire movie - I just couldn't with this one. I stopped at about the 40 minute mark. Truly a ego trip for the director,writer, and lead actress (one and the same).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Well Crafted Tale of Successful Neurotic Girl Meets Boy
Review: This snappy little indie romance will delight you.

Clever and smart. Witty humor abounds as Amy's inner dialogue is shared with the audience. Perfectly cast, Nick Chinlund is the handsome foil to the independent and feminist values that Amy clings to.

This is the kind of romantic comedy that the major studios SHOULD be making, but aren't. Amy's O doesn't disappoint!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Woody Allen as a young woman!
Review: Writer/director/actress Julie Davis is Amy Mandrell, a 29-year-old author of a best-selling book "Why Love Doesn't Work". Women everywhere are loving it, and Amy is doing the talk-show circuit. She's pretty, single and rich, but not happy. For free therapy, she goes to confession, even though she is Jewish.

She does an interview with a Howard Stern-like shock jock and he asks her out. This could be very bad for her career. But it also forces Amy to examine the fact that she has just written an entire book on relationships and espoused a whole philosophy on the subject with hardly any experience (she only had one weekend-long affair in her entire 29 years.)

An aside: It is also annoying to see Amy drive around alone in a massive SUV. But her publicist drives her and drops her off at a meeting.

This is funny, witty, well-acted and directed, and it will make you think about your own experiences with love and if you too are being a hypocrite about it.


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