Lost and Found (1999)

13% of critics liked it
(52 reviews)
30% of users liked it
(8,904 ratings)

Dylan Ramsey is an ordinary guy with a fine life. He's got a great Los Angeles apartment (even with the elderly neighbors' ongoing strip poker game) and a new restaurant about to open. Things are looking good. "Good-looking" is one way to describe Dylan's new next-door neighbor, Lila Dubois, but… More Dylan Ramsey is an ordinary guy with a fine life. He's got a great Los Angeles apartment (even with the elderly neighbors' ongoing strip poker game) and a new restaurant about to open. Things are looking good. "Good-looking" is one way to describe Dylan's new next-door neighbor, Lila Dubois, but that would be like calling the Eiffel Tower "a nice building." Both are tall, stunning, extremely French...and somewhat out of Dylan's reach. But he's determined to get Lila's attention. Unfortunately for Dylan, Lila is focused on three things: re-starting her career as a professional cellist in her newly adopted city; staying away from her dashing and pushy ex-boyfriend, René; and creating a safe home for the new love in her life, Jack. Jack's short, a little hairy, but in general, good-looking...for a cairn terrier. Despite Dylan's attempts to insert himself in Lila's life, he can't get anything more out of her than a neighborly "thank you" -- even after returning Jack following another of the pooch's attempts at running away. So Dylan does what any man desperately in love with the woman of his dreams would do -- kidnaps Jack, volunteers to help his distraught owner with the search and plans to produce the lost doggie in time to reap the gratitude (and a date?) from Lila. But then things start to misfire, thanks in part to the jealous René, a missing anniversary ring, Neil Diamond, pink dessert swans and surly loan officers.

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By: Jeff Pollack
Written By: J.B. Cook, Marc Meeks, David Spade
Genres: Animation, Romance, Comedy, Special Interest

In Theaters: Apr 23, 1999 Wide
On DVD: Oct 5, 1999
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
A mundane sitcom with feature pretensions, the kind where the comic 'situation' is simply a coat-rack for hanging a rag-tag assortment of inflated sight gags and telegraphed punch lines.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Spade serves as both star and co-writer of this lame, crass romantic comedy. Most of the jokes he's written fall flat, and his delivery isn't much better.
Eric Harrison, Los Angeles Times
Nothing but a cynical, astonishingly inept attempt to copy Mary's formula.
Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz
Spade's wise-ass persona grows tiresome fast.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
It would be difficult to imagine material more wrong for Spade than Lost & Found.
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Lost & Found is such a low-class, low-laughs rip-off that it makes "Mary" resemble a Noel Coward comedy of manners!
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
A love story, but Spade is way too smug to appear the slightest bit sincere in his scenes with Marceau for it to work at all on that level.
Steve Tilley, Jam! Movies
It's only intermittently funny.
Tom Meek, Film Threat
Spade is uncomfortably awkward as a romantic lead -- he's better employed in supporting comic roles.
Kristan Ginther, Boxoffice Magazine
The toilet humor and There's Something About Mary dog joke retreads lead Lost astray.
Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Funny for 15 minutes and then fades into mean-spirited cruelty and stupidity.
James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
anyone who went to the movies last summer will recognize 'Lost' for what it is: a diluted variation on 'There's Something About Mary.'
Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve
Eminently watchable and enjoyable.

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Featured Audience Ratings

Lucas M

A few good gags and entertaining, don't change how the film is, cliche and silly.
Ken S

David Spades least irritating performance
Leigh R

Funny!
Sunil J

One of the only times David Spade has ever amused me. I genuinely liked him in this.
Leo L

Great!