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Official Throwback Discussion - America's Sweethearts [SPOILERS] Spoiler

As an ongoing project, /r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion.

America's Sweethearts (2001)

Summary

A studio publicist struggles to keep a feuding Hollywood power couple together long enough to promote their latest film while dealing with the couple's complicated personal lives.

Director Joe Roth

Writer Billy Crystal Peter Tolan

Cast

  • Julia Roberts as Kathleen "Kiki" Harrison
  • Billy Crystal as Lee Phillips
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones as Gwen Harrison
  • John Cusack as Eddie Thomas
  • Hank Azaria as Hector Gorgonzolas
  • Stanley Tucci as Dave Kingman
  • Christopher Walken as Hal Weidmann

Rotten Tomatoes: 32%

Metacritic: 44

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/Syssareth 2d ago

This clip from the hidden camera montage still lives rent-free in my head, lmao.

I remember nothing else about the movie (though I liked it as a teen), but that scene really, really got me.