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By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be warned. This movie does not \u201cstar\u201d Julia Roberts. The star of this film is, without a doubt (and luckily for the audience), Billy Crystal. Co-written by Crystal and Peter Tolan, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Sweethearts\u201d is the story of Gwen Harrison and Eddie Thomas, Hollywood\u2019s golden couple both on and off screen, who have gone their separate ways both on and off screen, with disasterous results. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Gwen, a manipulative, over-the-top, obnoxious, I-am-so-in-love-with-myself, egomaniacal movie star, to John Cusack\u2019s Eddie, a slightly older version of his defining role, downtrodden Lloyd Dobbler in \u201cSay Anything.\u201d Julia Roberts is a delight as Gwen\u2019s sister, Kiki, a lifelong overweight, doormat to Gwen. But it is Crystal as studio public relations ace Lee Phillips who makes this movie what it is.<\/p>\n

Having broken up some 18 months ago when Gwen was swept off her feet by her Spanish lover, Hector (implausibly and excessively lispingly played by Hank Azaria who lacks any believability as a Spanish lover or movie star), Gwen and Eddie have gone their separate ways — Eddie having a breakdown and spending his time at a wellness center run by Alan Arkin, and Gwen making film flops. With nine previous hits under their belts, their careers and the fate of an entire studio hinge on their tenth and final film, \u201cTime Over Time\u201d which is about to be released with Gwen and Eddie no longer together. Just fired by studio exec Dave Kingman, faultlessly and frenetically played by Stanley Tucci (do we hear Supporting Oscar nomination?), Lee is brought back into the fold to pull off the PR coup of the century – get Gwen and Eddie back together for the press junket on \u201cTime Over Time\u201d, an $86 million film which has still not been completed by three time Oscar winning director, Hal Weidmann, brilliantly played by Christopher Walken. Weidmann is such an eccentric that he has purchased the Unibomber\u2019s cabin from the government, setting it in his backyard as his editing bay. Refusing to submit a film for screening until the junket, Weidmann has Kingman \u201cby the balls\u201d so to speak, thus forcing Lee to concoct a diversion from the actual screening – the recoupling on and off screen of Gwen and Eddie.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Lee\u2019s scheme to work he must enlist the aid of Kiki as she is the only one Gwen will even \u201cpretend to listen to.\u201d It quickly becomes apparent to Lee, however, that Kiki, now svelte and beautiful, is in love with her ex-brother-in-law, Eddie, and although he won\u2019t admit it, Eddie with her. In the great tradition of romantic screwball comedies of Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age, Lee embarks on an all out campaign to not only save the studio, but to make sure the right girl gets the right guy (a la \u201cSinging In The Rain\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Hollywood itself for giving Crystal and Tolan some of the best scenarios to work with when dealing with the press and gossip fodder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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