Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
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79% of critics liked it
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63% of users liked it
(23,698 ratings)
Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne),… More Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne), who narrates the picture, is the daughter of divorced couple Steffi (Goldie Hawn) and Joe (Woody Allen). Since the break-up, Steffi has married Bob (Alan Alda); their children, DJ's half-sister and half-brother, are Skyler (Drew Barrymore) and Scott (Lukas Haas). Skyler is about to be married to a likeable chap named Holden (Edward Norton). However, her mother Steffi, a wealthy liberal, cultivates people as "projects." Her latest project is ex-con Charles (Tim Roth), an extremely rude and crude customer. At family gatherings, everyone politely ignores his lapses in manners and good taste until Skyler postpones her wedding to have an affair with him. In a parallel storyline, we see that DJ is convinced that her unremarried dad would find a perfect mate in Von (Julia Roberts), and she contrives an elaborate (and successful) scheme to bring them together. In a fashion typical of '30s musicals, this movie completely transcends its fluffy story, using a cavalcade of ballads to send the characters on a chaotic, romantic merry-go-round from New York to Paris. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Woody Allen
- Written By
- Woody Allen
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Dec 6, 1996 Wide
- On DVD
- Aug 17, 1999
Critic Reviews
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, Time Out
A charming, sweet-natured divertissement.
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Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Listening to the others sounding like a spouse in the shower makes one wonder: How bad could Barrymore be that she had to be dubbed?
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Much of the film's story is half-hearted, its jokes hit or miss, and what starts out feeling genial ends up unavoidably thin.
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Charles Taylor, Salon.com
For a picture that's almost a complete misfire, it's painless to sit through.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
It's a world of both serene privilege and surreal possibility, and it offers a delightful and witty compendium of the film maker's favorite things.
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Cast
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Edward Norton
as Holden
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Alan Alda
as Bob
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Woody Allen
as Joe
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Drew Barrymore
as Skylar
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Goldie Hawn
as Steffi
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Julia Roberts
as Von
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Gaby Hoffmann
as Lane
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Natalie Portman
as Laura
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Tim Roth
as Charles Ferry
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Natasha Lyonne
as DJ
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Lukas Haas
as Scott
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Robert Knepper
as Greg
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David Ogden Stiers
as Holden's Father

