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Rumor Has It...
- Review Date: May 7, 2006
- PG-13
- Genre: Comedy
- 2005
Common Sense Media says
Awkward, unfunny, and not meant for kids.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this film's premise has a young woman sleeping with a man whom she believes might be her father. Though he insists this is physically impossible, she worries about it more than once. Characters drink and smoke repeatedly (stereotypical signs of decadence).
What's the story?
RUMOR HAS IT... follows the romantic travails of writer Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston). Feeling like she doesn't "fit," she thinks her family is the source for The Graduate, she seeks the man who slept with her mother and grandmother, imagining he might be her father. The occasion for her search is her sister Annie's (Mena Suvari) wedding, for which Sarah and her fiancé Jeff (Mark Ruffalo) fly from New York to Pasadena. Sarah finds the model for Benjamin Braddock, Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner). Now an internet millionaire, he assures her that he can't be her dad (as he suffered "blunt testicular trauma" during a soccer game 39 years ago), and they promptly get drunk and sleep together. Proclaiming that he's enchanted by his single "pretty spectacular" night with Sarah – Beau pursues her to Pasadena.
Is it any good?
Rumor Has It... is awkward and unfunny. While Sarah's grandmother, the chain-smoking, haughty Katherine Richelieu (Shirley MacLaine), offers comic moments, the movie pretty much abandons her once Sarah finds the model for Benjamin Braddock. Never thinking just to ask her father, Earl (Richard Jenkins), about her dead mother's past, Sarah instead imagines her mom was happiest with this other man, as they spent a weekend in Mexico just before her marriage to Earl.
The film perks up briefly when Beau heads to Pasadena, where he encounters Katherine. Unimaginatively accompanied by Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western theme, she stalks out to confront her erstwhile lover, and then, pfft. The film retreats from this sparky relationship, so full of raw resentment and regrets, to refocus on the terminally dull Sarah.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about Sarah's consistently bad decisions concerning her fiancé, her family, and her one-night stand. Though she says she's "scared," how does her "search for herself" end up hurting other people? How would Sarah's entire situation be different if only she had talked with her father first?
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Okay
This movie is okay. But i think that it has too much sex in it. This girl sleeps with this guy that might be her father. That guy also slept with her mom and her grandmother. I like this movie but i wouldent recomend it for anyone under the age of 13
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Great movie, one of my favorites.
I am 17 years old and I watched it the first time when I was probably about 14. I absolutely LOVE this movie, and whoever reviewed it made it sound horrible. I have to agree some of it makes you go "That's just wrong," but it keeps you entertained and the acting in it is wonderful. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anybody. One of my favorites.
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Super cute.
I think its cute. its a good way 4 young ones 2 see that thay shoud not cheat..
-Kaitlyn
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modern day graduate
funny but iffy inadult content and dialouge great movie for matur tweens,and teens
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Like nothing I've ever seen
This movie was so funny it had a young twist to it. It's like no other movie i've seen it has such a bizarre plot but yet is really good.
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Flat out bad
...this is one of the most awkward, sick, perverted movies I've seen in a long time. She has sex with someone that her mother AND grandmother both slept with! I don't recommend it to anyone. In fact I advise that you DON'T SEE IT! And if you already have seen it, I genuinely pity you.
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romances
this is a love story for husnabd a7 wife to go see its not for kids.
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Rumor has it its good
This movie was funny but it was dramtic in a good way
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| Studio: | Warner Bros. |
| Director: | Rob Reiner |
| Cast: | Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 96 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | December 25, 2005 |
| DVD release date: | May 9, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | mature thematic material, sexual content, crude humor and a drug reference. |
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