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...acting in “A Lot Like Love” is a lot like crappy. Peet seems to be uncomfortable that she is in this movie. Valiantly, she tries to save it, but she can’t turn lead into gold...
Because, despite his traipsing about with Demi Moore to Kabbalah Temples, and pulling horrible, ill-conceived tricks on celebrities, Ashton Kutcher is a nerdy romantic. He hulks awkwardly. His facial expressions are spastic and he looks positively lumpish on screen. Amanda Peet looks embarrassed most of the time she is on screen with him—and she’s had to work with Mathew Perry (twice!). And, unfortunately, “A Lot Like Love” has a screen play riddled with so many clichés that it desperately needs all consuming chemistry from its leads...
...that eventually flowers into an all-consuming, mutually caring love (which has never happened to me in college, but hey, this is the movies). On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver (Ashton Kutcher), a jobless college graduate with an unflattering bowl haircut, meets Emily (Amanda Peet) who is wearing combat boots. It seems to be a match made in heaven. Or at least an army surplus store. And, lo and behold, they end up having sex in the airport bathroom...
...former class hero, who is black. A triangle ensues. But all is not as it seems. LaBute usually shows the impossibility of men connecting with women; here he shows the implacability of racism that lurks in the heart of even nice guys. Ben Stiller, Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Peet star in George C. Wolfe's crackling off-Broadway production of a daring playwright's best play. --By Richard Zoglin
Ferrell takes on the Woodiest character of all as leading-man Hobie—another failed actor married to an over-controlling producer (Amanda Peet)—but his performance is unconvincing...