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Something to Talk About

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Something to Talk About

R

Released Aug 4, 1995

1h 46m

Comedy

Drama

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Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.

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Critics Consensus

Small-town gossip and a battle of the sexes should really add up to more than Something to Talk About, especially with this much talent before the camera.

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Sheila Johnston

Independent (UK)

Contains the occasional barb -- mainly from Kyra Sedgwick, who steals the film as Roberts' tart-tongued sister. But Roberts herself is a drip, and it's a dull story.

Mar 29, 2024

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Derek Malcolm

Guardian

The film, though not unentertaining, keeps on backtracking, sentimentalising and not quite getting to grips with its subject matter.

Mar 29, 2024

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David Ansen

Newsweek

The humanity is spread around with a quirky, generous hand, reason enough to distinguish this quiet, low-tech comedy in a season of big-bang juvenilia.

Feb 16, 2018

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Mike Davies

Birmingham Post

Unfortunately, with the exception of Sedgwick's spirited monopoly on one-liners, all this happens not only with unrelating meandering mundanity and a drab performance from Roberts, but also with the addition of a [pointless] subplot.

Mar 29, 2024

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Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

You'll be talking about this film all right when you come out -- about how numbingly dreadful it is.

Rated: 0/4

Mar 28, 2024

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Quentin Falk

Sunday Mirror (UK)

[Julia Roberts and Gena Rowlands] are treated disgracefully by the men in their lives, yet they still seem curiously forgiving. Mind you, it is set in the Deep South, which always appears stuck in a time warp.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 28, 2024

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Mike P

Bad movie about gossip and affairs in a small town; where the central scene has Julia confronting all the women in the town square about Dennis Quaid; her unfaithful husband... But it's unconvincing and done with lackluster acting. Everyone involved here has done much better than this. If you want to see Julia in a similar soap opera-ish scenario where she's going off on disloyal family members and quashing cruel gossip you should see her in August Osage County which covers a lot of the same territory but it's much better than this. MUCH better! I mean this comes of like some cheap episode of One Life to Live or something by comparison.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/11/24

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Audience Member

Genuinely lovable movie considering its about inferdelity it has fun moments but Julia Roberts is exceptionally good as the woman scorned

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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steve d

you won't even remember it let alone talk about it later.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Basically, the message is: your spouse cheated? Get mad, then get over it. The end. What a waste of a great performance by Kyra Sedgwick.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Feel good ending after a couple of rich brats finally go through a rough patch as adults. Excellent locations & props - and a quality cast that knows how to deliver a line all wrapped up in a Goldie Hawn production.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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It's an affair to remember when the aftermath was exaggerated and created pathos along the way. But the light side of that is the nice performances of the cast to make things resolved towards the smart-moved outcome after some surprising moments with warmth. (B+) (Full review coming soon)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Synopsis

Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.

Director: Lasse Hallström
Producer: Anthea Sylbert, Paula Weinstein, William S. Beasley
Production Co: Warner Bros., Spring Creek Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 4, 1995, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $49.7M
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Surround

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