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      The Third Wish

      PG Released Apr 22, 2005 1h 46m Romance Comedy List
      Reviews 5% 50+ Ratings Audience Score A first edition of Dickens' "Great Expectations" grants three wishes to an aspiring writer (Jenna Mattison). Read More Read Less

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      Christopher Null Filmcritic.com I only have one wish: For 90 minutes to be returned to me. Rated: 2/5 Mar 23, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member I saw the movie it's not worth it. The acting was great. I mean Betty white was great in the film. Many character maggie played Jenny Mattison gave a solid performance. The reason the movie is not worth it because the plot made no sense what's so ever. The writing never made sense to me. But all in all it was great Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Gave it over 30 minutes (wasted time) just because Betty White and Armand Assante were in it. The script falls flat, The story moves so slow and so full of cliches' and Mattison seems to rely on her laugh and quirky mannerisms to hold the movie up but is not nearly enough. This is why so many writers don't get their books made into movies..."one bad apple" and all. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a really bad movie. There's really not a great deal to recommend it. I guess my main reason for sticking with it was to see Sean Maguire as I remembered him from Grange Hill years ago. Honestly I wish that was still my lasting impression. He comes across like Adrian Mole here. Well, there's Betty White, gotta like her, but her role is pretty small. The star is for her. The half is for the rest of this mess of a movie. I don't mean to be horrible, but Jenna Mattison is really pretty freaky to look at. Kind of distracting with huge out of proportion lips. (I hope for her sake they are pumped up and not really her own). I'm sure she's a lovely person and she seems sweet enough here, but just fails to convince as does the entire sickly sweet far-fetched story. It is indeed family friendly, as stated here... I guess that's the best you could say about it, but I can't picture tweens and teens today wanting to sit and watch it. Maybe older people who like a made for tv movie. (The copy I watched belongs to my mother and she seemed to like it well enough). Lame more than anything else. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member It was funny, short, and it seems to be lacking something. Good for wanting to kill time. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A first edition of Dickens' "Great Expectations" grants three wishes to an aspiring writer (Jenna Mattison).
      Screenwriter
      Jenna Mattison
      Production Co
      Cheshire Smile Productions
      Rating
      PG (Language)
      Genre
      Romance, Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 22, 2005, Original
      Release Date (DVD)
      Aug 28, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 46m