Americas Sweethearts (2001)

" ...caustic and hilarious...  James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"Fun, funny and filled with laughs.  David Sheehan, CBS-TV Los Angeles
" Catherine Zeta-Jones is gorgeously bitchy.  Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...well cast, with an excellent premise and wicked sense of humor...  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"A slam dunk for Julia Roberts.  Desson Howe, Washington Post

Editor's Note Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current affair, a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria). When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status and the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film's press junket. Julia Roberts costars as Kiki, Gwen's personal assistant and sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister. Once overweight and severely self-conscious, Kiki's life revolves around her sister's ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity, penned cleverly with cynical insider wit by Crystal and Peter Tolan. Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars and gaggles of press together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors, eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo), maniacal studio heads, and gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story.

	Alan Arkin
	Billy Crystal
	Catherine Zeta-Jones
	Christopher Walken
	Hank Azaria
	John Cusack
	Julia Roberts
	Seth Green
	Stanley Tucci
	Joe Roth - Director
	Phedon Papamichael - Director of Photography
	James Newton Howard - Musical Score
	Billy Crystal, et al. - Producer
	Peter Tolan - Writer
	Billy Crystal - Writer

Rolling Stone
"...Catherine Zeta-Jones is gorgeously bitchy..." 08/16/2001 p.111-14

Los Angeles Times
"...There's a lot to like about AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS....It's well cast, with an excellent premise and a wicked sense of humor..." 07/20/2001 p.1

Sight and Sound
"...[Roth] exercises skilled control here, keeping the pace brisk and unforced..." 11/01/2001 p.38