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Catch And Release [2007]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Joshua Friesen, Darren Daurie, Timothy Olyphant
directed by Susannah Grant

Features:

• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Jennifer Garner's lips grow more Angelina-esque every year. In the romantic comedy Catch and Release, Garner (Alias,13 Going On 30) plays Gray Wheeler, a young woman whose fiance dies unexpectedly before the wedding, leaving Gray unable to afford her home--so she moves in with her fiance's best friends, Sam (Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and Dogma) and Dennis (Sam Jaeger, Lucky Number Slevin). But the presence of another old friend named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood) leads to the unveiling of a secret: Gray's fiance had a child with another woman. Catch and Release lacks the clear story structure that most romantic comedies are built on, but trades it for a richer sense of the ambiguities of human relationships. Garner, though lovely and personable, is a bit bland--fortunately, she's surrounded by actors with all kinds of edges, including Smith (who shows an unexpected and uncloying earnest side), Fiona Shaw (from the Harry Potter movies) as the fiance's grieving mother, and Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), who demonstrates once again her powers as a fearless and surprising actress. Catch and Release is an uneven movie with a remarkably elegant visual style that sometimes clashes with the workman-like dialogue, but it can't be written off as the same old Hollywood claptrap. Though a happy ending is inevitable, the path it takes has some surprising turns and flashes of unexpected emotional depth.-- Bret Fetzer

Screenwriter Susannah Grant makes her directorial debut in this tale of love, loss, and finding new love. Gray Wheeler's (Jennifer Garner) wedding day is not going as planned. Instead of walking down the aisle in her wedding gown, she is at the funeral of her fiance, Grady, following his accidental death on a trip meant to be his bachelor party. To make ends meet, Gray puts her things in storage and moves in with Grady's roommates, levelheaded and attentive Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and quirky yet lovable Sam (Kevin Smith). With childhood friend Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) in from LA and crashing on the couch, it’s a full house. Inhabiting Grady's old room, Gray soon learns that her fiance had been keeping some big secrets from her and may not have been the man she thought he was. Perhaps more importantly, she discovers some surprising things about herself, and her ability to heal and love again. Each of the characters in this film has to find a way to survive the devastating loss of a man who held them all together. Garner effectively conveys Gray's heartbreak and confusion without going over the top. As Fritz, Olyphant pulls off the role of the mystery man who is always charming but often misunderstood. Jaeger is earnest and heartfelt as Grady’s roommate and business partner. But Smith is the scene-stealer here, with deadpan delivery and great timing as a Celestial Seasonings employee spouting philosophical quotes from the herbal tea company's packaging. Juliette Lewis appears as a sexy, slightly flaky, Californian massage therapist who is also a skeleton in Grady's closet.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Yet Another Tragically Underrated Film
  Let me just start off by saying that this is the first review I have ever written on Amazon. What led me to make this change in my behaviour is simply the fact that after watching Catch and Release on Sky this week for the first time, I was so incensed by the sheer lack of praise for this truly wonderful film that I could not hold myself back.
  I had not even heard of this film until a few months ago and certainly don't remember it being on at the cinema. After reading the bad reviews and criticisms... more info

• surprisingly good
  i really liked this, yes its sickly sweet,overlong and drags in the middle but as pure comfort cinema its perfectly fine, you know the ending within the first five minets but who cares

• disappointing
  I had high hopes for this movie being both a Kevin Smith and Jennifer Garner fan. Unfortunately I was sadly disappointed. The characters are irritating, the dialogue wooden and the story, though an interesting premise, lacks real depth.
  That said Jennifer Garner is great and there are moments where you can see the film has potential, sadly it never develops.
  Kevin Smith plays Kevin Smith. Only this time it is neither endearing or funny.
  I wanted to love this movie but ended up entirely... more info

• Looks better than it is
  I was curious about this movie after being given Kevin Smith's book 'My Boring-Ass Life', in which he chronicles being offered a part in this movie, passing the audition and shooting the film. Never having seen Smith act in anything he didn't write, and not expecting much, my wife and I rented this.
  In his book, Smith gallantly refrains saying anything critical about the story or about the finished movie, but the trouble is that it's not, in my opinion, a great story. Jennifer Garner's fiancé... more info

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