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Plot: 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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MCT:July 1, 2008Creator Peter Tolan really miscasts Broderick and Snow in this, a comedy about an off-the-wagon gambler and his hooker niece who face their vices in Las Vegas. A waste of two talents.
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MCT:July 1, 2008Disappointed in this movie because I thought it would be good since Matthew Broderick & Brittany Snow were in it. She just seemed a force for this character & he just wasn't all that funny.
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MCT:June 30, 2008It was a wierd little movie for sure had some funny parts and then some just disturbing and the people were all just messed up but that made the movie
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MCT:June 23, 2008A comedy with some laughs about harder subjects that I felt were treated lightly. I got the point just felt it came across weak. Sexy, but not enough. It wasn't that any of the performances were necessarily bad, it was just that it just that there were no hot chicks which seemed central to the story, no thrill, the suspense was frustrating waiting for it to make it's point, no killer music. I don't blame the acting on this one.
PS: I figured out, it is deceptive marketing. It is not about the "Finding" and it is not about "Amanda". The movie should be called "The Story of Taylor Peters: Finding Amanda" and the poster should have Matthew Broderick in the foreground and Brittany Snow in the background. -
MCT:June 19, 2008
Now let's talk about this other little movie I saw one night. It's not necessarily a bad movie, but I can't seem to figure out why I didn't completely like it. Finding Amanda was this little film I got to see the same time I saw a brilliant film called In Bruges and maybe that?s one of the reasons I didn't like it that much. This movie's coming to theaters on June 27th (I don't know how the heck it can stand to Wall E or Wanted), but I got to see it ahead of time and I'm glad to tell you if it's worth it. And the truth is, I don't know.
We got Matthew Broderick and Brittany Snow, who play and uncle and a niece, both with major problems. While Broderick's character is trying to find his niece (Snow) in Vegas to try and get her to rehab, we wonder who needs rehab more. Taylor Peters (Broderick) is a television writer and has a drug, drinking and major gambling problem that leads him to losing his wife (for the whole movie, no redemption whatsoever) and going on a search for his prostitute niece for redemption. Brittany Snow plays that prostitute Amanda who tries to keep her life together and does a real crappy job at it. You'd think that they'd learn something from each others experiences while bonding and helping each other out, but they just get into more trouble that causes something unfortunate. The characters end up being very unlikable.
I guess that aspect of Finding Amanda really hurts it in the end. You are routing for these characters to get better and you want to love the relationship the uncle and the niece have, the actions they do make it incredibly difficult. There's really no shot at redemption for anyone here, at least nothing's shown. Perhaps Broderick's character learned a bit from the niece's actions, but in the end, he's still very screwed up. It all begins with promise but the payoff just isn't enough. Here we have Brittany Snow, a very cute girl who you want to love and route for, but the film makes it so flippin hard that even her looks can't save it. Besides those two characters mentioned, no one else it likeable either. They're all such jerks or they aren't charming and everyone's mean to eachother. It's also weird watching the guy who did the voice for Simba in the Lion King, swearing like Bruce Willis in a Die Hard flick. Yet there were a few little things that didn't make this movie horrible.
It's a comedy, a mixed one at that but brings us a few laughs here and there. Writer/director Peter Tolan has worked on many successful comedy shows and movies like Home Improvement and Analyze This, but also a lot of failures like Stealing Harvard and Guess Who, this guy's had a long but rocky career. Finding Amanda marks his debut as a film director and can I say he has the potential to be something good, but he gives us such a mixed bag we don't know completely what to think of it. I hated the characters and the overall execution, but there's plenty of smart humor and some form of heart that'll take a lot for people to find. Some people have been liking this one a lot actually, but mostly for the humor which I guess was the main point of this. And I'm not saying the performances are bad, but even if a bad guy is played right you can like the bad guy in some way. You should really like the good guys don't you think?
So, I guess Finding Amanda isn?t a bad film, but it isn?t a good one either. Most people may like for its humor, but when you look beyond that, there?s really nothing. That?s a real shame because I like Brittany Snow and Broderick?s okay, but after this movie, I?m never gonna look at Ferris Bueller's Day Off quite the same, the guy swearing that much just really messed up my original image on the guy. Maybe you should go check out this movie when it comes out, at least after Wall E and Wanted are checked off on your ?want to see? list.
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