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Committed is a 2000 comedy film directed and written by Lisa Krueger and stars Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, and Luke Wilson.

Committed
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Directed by	Lisa Krueger
Written by	Lisa Krueger
Produced by	Dean Silvers Marlen Hecht
Starring	Heather Graham Casey Affleck Luke Wilson Goran Višnjić Alfonso Arau Patricia Velásquez
Cinematography	Tom Krueger
Edited by	Curtiss Clayton Colleen Sharp
Music by	Joey Burns John Convertino
Production company	Miramax Films
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release dates	January 21, 2000 (2000-01-21) (Sundance) April 28, 2000 (2000-04-28)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million[1]
Box office	$40,361[1]

Plot

The ever-optimistic Joline faces a challenge when her husband, flaky news photographer Carl, leaves the couple's New York City loft to find himself in Texas. Joline tracks Carl down to El Paso and observes him outside of his mobile home without his knowledge. She acquaints herself with Carl's schedule and his new friends, including his new girlfriend, Carmen, and his neighbor Neil. Neil, a quirky sculptor, becomes smitten with Joline. Back in New York, Joline's brother Jay goes off in search for his sister and ends up joining her in Texas. Eventually Carl spots Joline, and Joline seeks new ways of returning Carl to her life, up to and including mystic remedies provided by Carmen's grandfather.

Cast

Reception

Release

Committed premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and won the award for Best Cinematography.[3] The film had a limited theatrical release on April 28, 2000.[2]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes 43% of 46 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site's consensus reads: "Critics say Committed is one of those films that shows promise – some sort of vision – of what the movie could have been. The key word is 'could'. As it is, the script is predictable, the story becomes tedious, and it's simply not funny. Heather Graham shows she can play a central character, but she's not enough to make Committed successful."[4] On Metacritic it has a score of 44% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]

Writing for Metro Silicon Valley, Richard von Busack wrote, "The film's tiresome daffiness is probably not meant to be taken seriously," but that "if it were any smarter, it might be dangerous."[6] He added, "Committed plugs into the disgruntled spirit of children raised without two parents during the '60s and '70s...[but] counsels the search for rigor and self-improvement that's typical of youth, finding moral superiority through New Traditionalism. Nevertheless, Committed indulges in the worst intellectual habit of the '60s counterculture--it supports putting a principle ahead of common sense."[6]

In his review, A.O. Scott of The New York Times said the film has interesting ideas but doesn't fully explore them. He said there is "an inkling of real satire in the film's premise, which is that in today's casual sexual landscape marital fidelity is an inexplicable anomaly," but that the director "and her cast seem uncertain about what the tone of the exercise should be, and the result lacks both the heat of romantic longing and the spark of comic invention."[7]

Committed was nominated for the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.

References

External links

• Committed at IMDb
• Committed at AllMovie

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