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13 February 2011

THE ROMANTICS: eminently unlovable

If it weren't for the execrable script this misconceived drama would have no redeeming features at all.
Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel star in this tale of seven close friends from university who reunite for the wedding of two of them. As the alcohol flows on the night before the big event old passions are reignited causing the various characters to spew dialogue like even more fictional characters in a bad novel one would have assumed they didn't read in college while studying for their Romantic Literature degree.
The story concept is sound but the execution is atrocious, and I recommend you avoid this like the plague. Check out the 1992 Kenneth Branagh - Emma Thompson drama 'Peter's Friends' instead. It covers much the same territory and is a hundred times more satisfying.

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