Waiting for Forever (2010)
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6% of critics liked it
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43% of users liked it
(13,011 ratings)
Who decides what is normal? A unique love story about friendship and a view of the world from different perspectives, WAITING FOR FOREVER explores the connections people make in the face of life's changes. Best friends while they were growing up, Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge)… More Who decides what is normal? A unique love story about friendship and a view of the world from different perspectives, WAITING FOR FOREVER explores the connections people make in the face of life's changes. Best friends while they were growing up, Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge) lost touch a long time ago-as far as she knows. To Will, Emma never stopped being the most important person in his life. Believing them to be forever linked, he goes wherever she goes. Will doesn't have a home, a car, or a "real" job. He survives on his talent as a juggler and entertainer-talents honed through years of showing off for Emma. When her father gets sick, Emma returns to their hometown, trying to leave behind her complicated love life and failing career as a TV actress. As its characters face love, death and their own preconceptions, -- (C) Freestyle Releasing
- Directed By
- James Keach
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- In Theaters
- Feb 4, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- Freestyle Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
"Waiting for Forever" evidently is an attempt to portray love as purest when expressed by those who are most innocent, untainted by the ugliness of the real world. But it misses the mark completely, coming off instead as creepy.
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
A drippy romance that makes Nicholas Sparks look like Leo Tolstoy.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
With "Waiting for Forever," an insipid contemporary fairy tale about a lovestruck young vagabond shadowing a childhood sweetheart he can't bring himself to approach, we get stalking, juggling and cancer. Happy Valentine's Day!
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
More often than not, I felt suffocated by the gaseous sentimentality and lightheadedness of a story that drops in subplots that it can't begin to develop.
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Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Director James Keach's movie is so annoyingly dipsy-doodle that TV veteran Bilson, trying hard to look haunted and angsty, is boxed in.
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Cast
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Rachel Bilson
as Emma
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Tom Sturridge
as Will
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Blythe Danner
as Miranda
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Richard Jenkins
as Richard
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Scott Mechlowicz
as Jim
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Nikki Blonsky
as Dolores
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Jaime King
as Susan
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Matthew Davis
as Aaron
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Richard Gant
as Albert
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Roz Ryan
as Dorothy
- Nelson Franklin
- Riley Smith
- Matt Davis
- Michelle Mechlowicz
