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America's Sweethearts is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Joe Roth and written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan. It stars Julia Roberts, Crystal, John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones, with Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Seth Green, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken in smaller roles.

America's Sweethearts
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joe Roth
Written by	Billy Crystal Peter Tolan
Produced by	Susan Arnold Billy Crystal Donna Arkoff Roth
Starring	Julia Roberts Billy Crystal Catherine Zeta-Jones John Cusack Hank Azaria Stanley Tucci Christopher Walken Seth Green
Cinematography	Phedon Papamichael Jr.
Edited by	Stephen A. Rotter
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios Face Productions Roth-Arnold Productions Shoelace Productions
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	July 20, 2001 (2001-07-20)
Running time	103 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$46 million[2]
Box office	$138.3 million[3]

Plot

Film publicist Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) is promoting Time Over Time, a movie featuring beloved husband-and-wife stars Gwen Harrison (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie Thomas (John Cusack), who have made countless popular films together. However, the eccentric director Hal Weidmann (Christopher Walken) won't let anyone see the film until its premiere at a press junket, complicating Lee's job. And worse yet: Gwen and Eddie, once dubbed “America's Sweethearts”, have an ugly breakup.

Gwen's films without Eddie have been flops. Her affair with co-star Hector Gorzongolas (Hank Azaria), who now lives with her, nearly drives Eddie to a nervous breakdown. After Gwen's restraining order against him, he moves to a New Age retreat. Lee decides the press must believe the couple are reuniting to promote the film.

Lee enlists Kathleen Harrison, nicknamed “Kiki” (Julia Roberts), who is Gwen's sister and personal assistant, to persuade Gwen that attending the junket will benefit her career and public image, where she can also serve Eddie divorce papers. Lee bribes Eddie's spiritual guide (Alan Arkin) to convince Eddie he can attend.

At the junket, while Eddie and Gwen are fighting, Lee plants stories to the press they are reconciling. Gwen asks Kiki to be her go-between with Eddie, so they meet secretly to discuss the junket. Eddie's assistant leaks a photo of it to the press.

Angered by the rumors about Gwen and Eddie, Hector shows up, confronts Eddie and knocks him out. As Kiki tends to Eddie, they admit their feelings and have sex. However, in the morning, as they are having breakfast, Gwen calls and Eddie rushes to meet with her.

Hurt and angered, Kiki leaves, later becoming furious when Eddie tells Gwen he isn't seeing anyone. Confronting him, she says they can't pursue a relationship because he'll never get over Gwen. Downstairs, Lee tells Kiki not to give up on Eddie as he can see he has feelings for her.

Eddie has an epiphany while on the hotel roof, causing the press to believe that he's about to jump, and inciting Hector and the studio's owner Dave Kingman (Stanley Tucci) to encourage him in doing so. Gwen is thoroughly humiliated, warning him to stop as she wants maintain to the press that she and Eddie are reconciling.

Eddie tells Lee he's in love with Kiki and thinks he's blown it. Lee realizes his mistake, telling Eddie to pursue Kiki and divorce Gwen. Weidmann then shows with the film.

The screening begins, and everyone discovers that Weidmann abandoned the script, making a “reality movie” instead. The footage, mostly shot with hidden cameras and without the actors' knowledge, shows Gwen's unremorseful affair with Hector, gloating about it to then overweight and timid Kiki. Eddie becomes angry about Gwen's clear infidelity, but he otherwise appears sympathetic. Additionally, Dave Kingman is insulted by Weidmann and mocked by his assistant. Hector enjoys the reality film very much, until Gwen insults him about the size of his penis. On the other hand, the film portrays Eddie and Kiki favorably, while Gwen is the antagonist due to her affair with Hector.

As a result, most of the cast and crew — particularly Gwen and Kingman — are offended and confront Weidman, whereas Eddie appears pleased and suggests working together again. Weidmann agrees and reveals he wanted to humiliate Gwen for criticizing his direction. Enraged, she announces she will sue him and Kingman Studios.

Kiki is surprised, but not angered by the portrayal of her sister and also pleased to be shown favorably. Hector angrily confronts Gwen for her comments, and Weidmann's daughter, Leaf (Keri Lynn Pratt), defends him. She reveals their affair, pointing out Gwen's wrong to say he's small.

Humiliated, Gwen announces she is reconciling with Eddie, but he asserts he's finally through with her, and declares his love for Kiki. The latter reciprocates, standing up to Gwen for the first time, and revealing dirty secrets only she knew, before saying she is tired of putting her personal life on hold. Gwen retaliates by coldly firing her, before calming down and declaring she only wants Kiki's happiness, to look better to the press.

Outside, Gwen admits to the press that she and Eddie are over and is in love with Hector. She then claims she's on medication that makes her behave erratically and adding that he is very well-endowed.

Kiki and Eddie prepare to leave together to travel and pursue their relationship. Lee arrives to tell them that, amazingly, the press love the movie and Kingman Studios have to release it despite Gwen's lawsuit threat.

Cast

Julia Roberts' niece, Emma Roberts, makes an uncredited appearance as the young girl in the purple T-shirt.

Release

Box office

America's Sweethearts opened on July 20, 2001, and earned $30,181,877 in its opening weekend, ranking second behind Jurassic Park III ($50,771,645).[4] By the end of its run, the film had grossed $93,607,673 in the domestic box office and $44,583,755 overseas for a worldwide total of $138,191,428. Based on a $46 million budget, the film was a box office success.[3] Filming took place at Lake Las Vegas.^{[citation needed]}

Critical response

Despite being a box office success, the film holds a 32% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes from 146 critics. The site's consensus states: "Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts."[5] On Metacritic, the film holds a 44 out of 100 rating based on 32 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[7] Gustavo Arellano in his writing ¡Ask a Mexican! identified Azaria's character Hector as an example of the Latin lover stereotype.[8]

References

External links

• America's Sweethearts at IMDb
• America's Sweethearts at Box Office Mojo
• America's Sweethearts at Rotten Tomatoes
• America's Sweethearts at Metacritic

На других языках

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[de] America’s Sweethearts

America’s Sweethearts (engl. für „Amerikas Lieblinge“) ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie aus dem Jahr 2001.

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- [en] America's Sweethearts

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[ru] Любимцы Америки

«Люби́мцы Аме́рики» (англ. America's Sweethearts; США, 2001) — комедия о бывшей семейной паре голливудских звёзд-актёров, выхода нового фильма которых ждёт мир. Главные роли в этом лёгком, семейно-комедийном фильме исполнила целая команда звёзд Голливуда первой величины.

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