Catch and Release

2006

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 132 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 29931 29.9K

romantic comedy romcom woman director sentimental amused

Plot summary

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

Director

Susannah Grant Photo
Susannah Grant

Top cast

Tina Lifford Photo
Tina Lifford as Eve
Sonja Bennett Photo
Sonja Bennett as Caterer
Michael Adamthwaite Photo
Michael Adamthwaite as Cowboy
Juliette Lewis Photo
Juliette Lewis as Maureen
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1 GB
1280*528
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 6
2.06 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by darkboarder84 6 / 10

Something to watch when nothing else is on.

Let's put it this way.... right before this movie, I had just watched 28 weeks later (highly recommend btw). It was It was one o clock in the morning, all the lights were off in my house, I was in my basement, and I was alone. There was no way I was making all the way up to my room. So I decided to stay and watch t.v. for a bit and find something cute and sweet to watch. THat is exactly what Catch and Release offered to me. But cute and sweet are basically the only two words that I can find to correctly describe this movie. It was not good but it definitely was not bad. Its a good movie to watch when nothing else is on. Please do not waste your time and money and rent this movie but if its one o clock in the morning, you don't feel like going to bed, and nothing else is on, then I say what the heck, you might as well watch it if its on HBO or something.
Reviewed by MartianOctocretr5 3 / 10

Botched up but released anyway

Film is a schizophrenic hodge-podge of elements from chick flick sentimentality and a frat beer drinking party sideshow. The attempt to mix the two is handled with little cohesion, and never seals the deal for either audience (and certainly falls short of appealing to both, which is what it seems to want).We meet a grieving woman (Jennifer Garner) who was engaged, but her fiancé dies just before the wedding. That would seem to be an emotional story of healing and moving on, right? Wrong. At the funeral, we meet his idiot friends (Kevin Smith and two other jokers, all who turn in rotten performances). What one of them is doing at the funeral home is appalling; to put it bluntly, the guy is a jerk. OK, so it's supposed to be a sophomoric comedy? Wrong again.Grit your teeth, there's still more clichéd characters coming. Enter the blonde bimbo, and her weird kid. A lot of the plot revolves around these two. She mumbles about yoga; the kid just stands around robotically throwing CD's on the floor. Real cute; I wanted to throw a ten ton crate of CD's on his head. Anyway, these two have a secret that drives the plot along. Presence of kid = suspicion. If you catch my drift.People do stuff that doesn't add up. There's a romance that has as much chemistry as two patches of dead seaweed. The attraction makes no sense, either, in light of earlier events in the story. Most characters suddenly change in odd ways, rather than evolve logically. Random sight gags evoke no laughs. The kid continues to be obnoxious.Nobody in the cast except for Garner makes any effort; they just don't seem to care. Even Ben-Jen's work here is not quite up to par, in light of her proved potential in other roles.The ending is ridiculous (and about as likely as the odds of winning a 50 million dollar lottery). It's like somebody tagged it on, because they didn't know how to close out the thing. The movie never does figure out which genre(s) it wants to be, either.
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