The Romantics

United States

2010

95 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Michael Benaroya, Taylor Kephart, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd

CAST Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Åkerman, Jeremy Strong, Adam Brody, Elijah Wood

ED Jacob Craycroft

Sundance (Premieres), Stockholm (American Independents)

Synopsis

In The Romantics, seven close friends—all members of a tight, eclectic college clique—reconvene at a deluxe seaside wedding to watch two of their own tie the knot. Lila is the golden girl preparing for her dream wedding, and Laura is Lila’s maid of honor. Once college roommates, Laura and Lila have been best friends since their first meeting on campus, but Lila’s groom, Tom, is the man they have long rivaled over. Promiscuity and hi-jinks abound as the drunken friends frolic in the nearby surf and revel in the nostalgic haze of their glory days.

Producer-turned-director Galt Niederhoffer adapts her own novel of the same name in this audacious first feature. With an outstanding ensemble cast, The Romantics is both a Zeitgeist love story and generational comedy that breathes new life into the genre and recaptures the camaraderie of youth. —Sundance Film Festival

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Paulitics

16Sep11

Needed more Seth Cohen.

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dan

18Jun11

Summer rain. You can never predict them.

Pedro Franceschini

3Apr11

The film tries to be a indie-wedding-movie but, eventhough it has nice and witty dialogues sometimes, it fails to really build the characters. But I got to admit I liked the confrontation, kind of a romantic deconstruction, between Lila and Laura in the middle of the movie, just after Laura had done her big romantic exposition (despite the acting, that is nothing but regular) and some of the camera movement.

Brandon Isaacson

29Mar11

Absolutely loved this. Levy's camera is so fascinated with them yet ambivalent. It is a visual darling of a film. Don't get too caught up in the dialogue, everything is in the the visual.