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      Catch and Release

      2006, Comedy/Drama, 1h 51m

      134 Reviews 100,000+ Ratings

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      A romantic dramedy with boring, stock characters and contrived situations. Read critic reviews

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      A woman (Jennifer Garner) struggles to rebuild her life in the wake of her fiance's untimely death and the discovery of secrets he kept from her. Along the way, she bonds with his best pals (Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith), including a n'er-do-well (Timothy Olyphant) she initially disliked.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use)

      • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Susannah Grant

      • Producer: Jenno Topping

      • Writer: Susannah Grant

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

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      • Box Office (Gross USA): $15.3M

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      • Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment

      • Production Co: Columbia, Tall Trees Productions

      • Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

      • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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      • May 08, 2012

        slow burning drama that is saved by kevin smith who is a solid actor. the film was okay but a little depressing & the overall story isn't that well told.

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      • May 01, 2012

        A woman whose fiancee recently died learns that he had a child with another woman. I only rented this film to see Kevin Smith, and he wasn't bad, even capable of handling a heavy, dramatic scene. Jennifer Garner was also occasionally good. But nothing can rescue the story. The bottom line is that I have absolutely no idea what draws Gray to Fritz, and if I see one more film in which a woman slaps a man, then is thwarted when she tries to slap him twice more with alternating hands before he pins her against a wall and they begin making out, I'm going to try to get slapped more often. And there's an oppressive unevenness to the film made worse by the mix CD of indie songs that seem to be squeezed into the film. Overall, Catch and Release is not a good film because the motivations of the main characters are more mysterious than the reason that nobody ever kisses after getting hit.

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      • Aug 06, 2009

        After reading Kevin Smith's Diary, "My Boring Ass Life" I felt compelled to watch this movie as he chronicles some of his time making it (for which he took some guff from the studios for revealing too much). Smith was fun to watch as he was primarily playing himself. Garner, a true natural beauty who I defy you not to love. The movie...not so much. I was almost angry watching the character inconsistencies, the obvious plot trends, the cliches. The start was very heartfelt and had promise, but it quickly devolved into just so much tripe. I really do not know what we were watching with Jennifer Garner's character, "Gray." She turns into something wholly different from the beginning of the film to the end and even while the metamorphosis may have been part of the journey and process the moves are so jumpy and without precipitant as well as by a route that is so very nonsensical that the destination makes no sense and just leaves one with no idea what any of the characters are about. None of the character decisions make any sense in the context of development and are totally devoid of discernable motive. The backdrop is spectacular (Vancouver pretending to be Colorado). Some of the performances were memorable (primarily Smith and Garner), but I simply cannot recommend this movie as anything more than, "fair" to "unsatisfying."

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      • Jun 03, 2009

        A horrible and soulless movie that was saved by Kevin Smith. I also didn't mind Juliette Lewis, but the rest of the cast was horrible. Jennifer Garner hasn't done anything good since she was on tv and she keeps that track record up. The story was slow and boring with very unlikable characters.

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