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Over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch two of their own tie the knot. Laura (Katie Holmes) i... read more read more...s maid of honor to Lila (Anna Paquin), her golden girl best friend. The two have long rivaled over the groom, Tom (Josh Duhamel). Friendships and alliances are tested and the love triangle comes to a head the night before the wedding, when the drunken friends frolic in the nearby surf and return to shore... without the groom. Based on the heralded novel by producer, novelist, director Galt Niederhoffer, THE ROMANTICS is a Zeitgeist love story and generational comedy that breathes new life into the genre and recaptures the camaraderie of youth. -- (C)Paramount Famous Productions

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PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Galt Niederhoffer

Release Date: September 10, 2010

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Flixster Reviews (539)

  • fb223580
    December 29, 2011
    fb223580
    Watched half of this on the plane. Character and plot development were both hazy, annoying, pretentious and unconvincing. The best thing I got out of this was watching Josh Duhamel be sexy for an hour and adding the sultry Bedouin Soundclash song, "Brutal Hearts" to my library.
  • solesoulsorrow
    August 10, 2011
    solesoulsorrow
    It's an all-star cast crammed into a movie that should've never made it off of the pages of the book and onto the silver screen.
  • ythelastman89
    June 12, 2011
    ythelastman89
    While The Romantics might not be for everyone, I thought it was great. In a lot of ways it reminds me of a generational movie, but it doesn't really commit to one specific goal. For being a completely performance and character driven movie, it is really well put together and defi... read morenitely has a great look. It takes people that we all know or were at some point, making them extremely relatable. There's a nice ensemble here and everyone gets moments to shine; not being focused on one character too much. While this acts an excerpt of these characters' lives, we get a large sense of where they've been and where they're going. This doesn't have the answers, but raises so many important questions for the time period and age group. Katie Holmes, Josh Duhmal, Malin Akerman and practically everyone else give great performances here that are evident even in their shortened time on screen. For Galt Niederhoffer being primarily a writer, she does an amazing job as a first time director.
  • stevenecarrier
    June 3, 2011
    stevenecarrier
    I found there to be a lot to like in "The Romantics." This ensemble drama features a great cast (Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Adam Brody, Malin Akerman, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Lawernce, Diana Agron, Candice Bergen) who convey a great chemistry. The scenes where they a... read morere all together are quite remarkable. Rarely have I seen such effortless camaraderie in a cast this large. The writing is snappy, realistic, and emotional. I also have a thing for movies that take place during one day, and this one uses that format in interesting ways. "The Romantics" is breezy and involving and easy to get lost in. For me, I really enjoyed this movie about love and friendship and how cockeyed life can truly be.
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    April 16, 2011
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    Promising movie with some good young actors but failed at everything else including a decent story and an harsh ending. The movie at times seems childish and immature and doesn't quite move you or capture your attention.

    Friends and family convene at a beach house for the weddin... read moreg of Lila and Tom. But things don't go swimmingly, mainly because of one thing that Lila and her maid of honor, Laura, have in common - Tom, the groom. Laura and Tom were an item before Lila came along and nobody seems able to forget that. With very few successful marriages to look up to, and friends that she's not sure she can trust, will Lila be able to go through with the wedding?
  • ajaymuthecooldevils
    March 24, 2011
    ajaymuthecooldevils
    Truly such a waste of potential, knowing that they have a list of everybody's favorite actor and actress.. Name it : Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Adam Brody, Malin Akerman, Dianna Agron, and Elijah Wood, but what I saw for about 90 minutes truly a waste.. The story w... read moreas bad, totally bad and it just feels like this movie has no story.. But the cast did their best in here, and they should be given a credit for it.. Overall, great cast + lousy story = pretty bad movie...
  • LWOODS04
    February 24, 2011
    LWOODS04
    Cast: Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Jeremy Strong, Candice Bergen, Adam Brody, Elijah Wood, Dianna Agron, Rebecca Lawrence

    Director: Galt Niederhoffer

    Summary: Sexcapades and lots of laughter ensue when a group of college friends reunites for the... read more wedding of Lila (Anna Paquin) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) -- and an old rivalry resurges between Lila and her maid of honor, Laura (Katie Holmes), who still holds a torch for the groom.

    My Thoughts: "The film had a great cast to work with, but unfortunately it had a crappy screenplay/director. You get thrown into the middle of these character's lives with about one fourth of a background on these character's being told. Then you get a bit interested and you find some of the character's likeable and humorous, but then here comes the big moment of the film and it just ends. Really? That's it? It's like reading a book and then coming to the last chapter to find it has been torn out. Left me completely unsatisfied and frankly, annoyed."
  • crazydannielle16
    April 28, 2012
    crazydannielle16
    The only good qualities about this movie were the excellent cast and the amazing soundtrack. It was quirky in that things happen in this movie that don't normally happen to average people. The song that played while the bride walked down the aisle was a sort of an American Bandst... read moreand song you might hear at a pro-football game complete cheerleaders dancing and heavy on the bass drum and stare. There was a beautiful song that played when the groom cheated on his fiance the night before the wedding (Bedouin Soundclash's song, "Brutal Hearts") which I added to my collection as soon as the movie was over. The conclusion is open-ended and I don't like that about movies... I like all loose strings tied. ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY cheated on their husband/fiance in this movie and no one seemed to care, either. It was annoying. That doesn't happen in real life. In real life, people get upset. It would have only got one star for the storyline but I give it an extra half a star for the good music and performances.
  • xas5
    March 4, 2011
    xas5
    The cast was pretty entertaining and I appreciated the against-the-grain emotions involved in the film, but the ending was anti-climatic and none of the film really held any moral or direction.
  • envel2
    July 10, 2011
    envel2
    Yeah, not real good....kind of a bland film not much really ever happened.

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Critic Reviews

Peter Hartlaub
September 23, 2010
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

The script fails to establish the likability of any of the main characters, which dulls the sense of urgency during the dramatic moments. Full Review

Wesley Morris
September 23, 2010
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

What ensues is a couple of days of confession and mild debauchery. It's all sketchy and banal. Full Review

Peter Rainer
September 13, 2010
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

It's possible that Niederhoffer was too close to her novel to stand back from its excesses. She's made a seriously self-indulgent movie about self-indulgent people. Full Review

Dana Stevens
September 10, 2010
Dana Stevens, Slate

[It] somehow skirts utter loathsomeness by dint of its elegant camerawork and a few finely tuned performances. I'm not suggesting you run out to the theater and see this, but if it comes on cable some... Full Review

Peter Travers
September 10, 2010
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Instead of Rachel Getting Married with an Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, we get Galt Niederhoffer's misbegotten, miscast snoozefest with Katie Holmes struggling to prove that there is life as an actre... Full Review

Kyle Smith
September 10, 2010
Kyle Smith, New York Post

With its tart dialogue and its perfect ending, it is sensitive as well as sagacious. It's a rare combination. Full Review

Ian Buckwalter
September 10, 2010
Ian Buckwalter, NPR

Niederhoffer wears her influences proudly on her sleeve, but crosses that line between homage and mimicry, making it difficult to hear her own voice as a filmmaker. Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
September 10, 2010
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

A middling little movie that tries to trespass on Bergman-Renoir territory and simply isn't adroit enough to pull it off... Full Review

Stephen Holden
September 10, 2010
Stephen Holden, New York Times

A formulaic rom-com with an Ivy League pedigree and a higher-than-average SAT verbal score. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
September 10, 2010
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

Holmes is completely implausible as an insecure outsider, while Paquin isn't nearly threatening enough as her perfect rival. Full Review

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