Search - Dedication on DVD

Jessica C. (SMURFICA5) from KUNA, ID
Reviewed on 5/2/2009...

This movie sucked so bad I couldn't even finish watching it. It is NOT a chick flick or a romantic comedy. It is just plain weird and stupid.

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Sharon C. (sharonc9630) from KNOXVILLE, TN
Reviewed on 6/22/2008...

Good movie to watch over the summer.

Billy Crudup is his quirky self.

Mandy Moore is beautiful.

Definitely a chick flick.

:)

2 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

A Beautiful Film

sec127 | Getzville, New York United States | 02/10/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is not your standard romantic comedy. The DVD box wants you to believe it is, but anyone looking for something like "How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days" is sorely mistaken. "Dedication", is a beautiful and heartfelt film tho, Justin Theroux makes a sensational directing debut. Fine performances from the always great Billy Crudup and the sweetheart only known as Mandy Moore. This is a film about redemption, loss and healing. Two lost souls who manage to find each other. Great music, great visuals and good work from all supporting players (Tom Wilkinson, Dianne Wiest, Christine Taylor, Martin Freeman, Peter Bogdanovich) make this a neat little indie film to see."

Like jagged glass

Liberty Slater | London and New York | 02/16/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"a bit dark, a big uncooth and broken, but beautiful, shining nevertheless.

I'm hesitant to compare this film to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Still, it's very much that kind of genre. So if that's your thing, this movie will deliver in every possible way and throw you through an entire spectrum of emotion and then some. It's believable, original; and yet still, very magical. Don't be fooled by the bland cover art, it's fantastic."

Dedication to Love and Life

A. Jorgensen | 06/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) writes books for children all the while

suffering from the ramifications of a childhood with a missing father

and an abusive, probably violent, mother. He has a bit of an OCD

problem as well.



His mentor, best friend, and parent replacement, is Rudy Holt (Tom

Wilkinson), who illustrates Henry's books. When Rudy dies, Henry is

devastated. He keeps imagining seeing Rudy, thus continuing to let

'Rudy' tell him how to handle Life. Something Henry is not very good at

at his own.



He is teamed up by his publisher Planck (Bob Balaban) with a new

illustrator, Lucy (Mandy Moore). In the beginning, he treats her like

he would anybody else, which means mean, but it becomes very clear that

she is a nice person and quickly he begins to like her. But he doesn't

know how to break the habit of being strange and sarcastic. (Anybody

who's been shy and hurt knows that being rude or weird is a perfect way

to stay safe; to keep people away from the core).



Here is what he tells her in one long hilarious monologue which

conveyed by the brilliant Billy Crudup comes out exasperated,

hesitantly and too fast all at the same time and with a voice that is

nearly broken , due to the fact that he has realized that he's told her

far too much:



"I hate my mother I hate my goddamn dead father more, Rudy was the only

friend I ever had, I had a girlfriend once who I used to like to

masturbate to more than have sex with, carrots and snakes frighten me

um I'm superstitious about the numbers (3. 5. 7) I can only stir things

counter-clockwise and I know that if I don't something bad will happen,

I take a size 11 and a half shoe I don't have a favorite book, I don't

drive or ride in cars, statistically speaking you have a 100% chance of

being in an accident in your lifetime, they're death boxes, I give to

Amnesty International on the off chance that I'm ever imprisoned and

tortured for my political beliefs, paradoxically I have no political

beliefs, um Life is pain, black kids are cuter than white ones, I

didn't mean it when I compared you to our waitress I was only trying to

hurt you, I could've been meaner about your looks and what I would have

said would've made you cry, I have a towel I can't throw out because it

may have feelings, when I ejaculate I go into deep depressions, though

by any standard you're a nice person I deeply resent having to work

with you, I love Japanese monster movies, Gamera specifically.."



Ultimately, it's a love story told in a funny, quirky way and with

great performances by Billy Crudup, Tom Wilkinson, not to mention Bob

Balaban. Mandy Moore does a good job as well.



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