Matthew Broderick, Maura Tierney, Brittany Snow

A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.

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30% liked it

1,559 ratings

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43% liked it

40 critics

R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Peter Tolan

Release Date: April 1, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008

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  • August 25, 2009
    Hilarious and awkward. My kind of funny...
  • July 9, 2008
    This film works so wonderfully every bit of it is successful. First of the script is alive with punchy witty quips especially from Broderick. Broderick is fantastic in his best role since Election, it's also quite similar in tone. Snow is also incredible in probably her best role...( read more) to date. Her Amanda is not the average miserable prostitute. She's happy in her profession, enjoys the life she leads and so forth. She's so damn cute as well and the chemistry she shares with her Uncle is spot on with the correct amount of uncomfortable anter and genuine affection. The film is a morality tale but one that gets the chaarcters to judge themselves rather than manipulate us into how we shoul feel. Steve Coogan also has time to pop in for some hilarious banter with Broderick. Smart, enjoyable and certainly moving.
  • December 4, 2008
    Crazy funny! Here's an interesting movie with a bit of a twist. Matthew Broderick stars.
  • October 3, 2009
    02/10/09
    "When it comes to screwing up their lives, some people don't know when to cry uncle."
  • October 2, 2009
    I hate movie titles that begin with gerunds. CHASING AMY, FINDING FORRESTER, FEELING MINNESOTA, etc. ad infinitum--a by-product of the depressingly lame 1990s.
  • September 19, 2009
    The cast isn't bad and this has some good moments, but basically this is a mediocre sitcom episode stretched to an hour and a half. Broderick, Snow, and Tierney aren't bad but they can't save the script.
  • August 31, 2009
    This was much better than I expected. Funny in a dark way and quite moving as well.
  • August 20, 2009
    do yourself a favor: do not waste your time watching this movie.
  • August 12, 2009
    Jedva sam ga uspila pratit, nije me uopce zainteresirao i jedva sam docekala kraj.
  • June 17, 2009
    Didn't really go anywhere.

Critic Reviews


June 27, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person. full review

June 27, 2008
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com

This cloying comedy is barely enlivened by its talented stars who both deserve much better. full review

June 27, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A peculiar film, which is really two films fighting to occupy the same space. full review

June 26, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

It can be done -- there are rich, sordid black comedies out there -- but Tolan doesn't quite pull it off. full review

June 26, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today

The film's tone shifts jarringly from superficial broad comedy to something far darker. And the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold scenario is as old as the profession itself. full review

June 22, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

A clumsy mash of Leaving Las Vegas and Hardcore. full review

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