The Switch (Blu-ray, Canadian) PG-13
The most unexpected comedy ever conceived.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Maple Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Aniston & Jason Bateman | |
Performer: | Juliette Lewis, Patrick Wilson, Todd Louiso & Jeff Goldblum | |
Directed by | Josh Gordon & Will Speck | |
Edited by | John Axelrad | |
Screenplay by | Allan Loeb | |
Composition by | Alex Wurman | |
Produced by | Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa | |
Director of Photography: | Jess Hall |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- Bateman knocks it out of the park with his physical clowning and easy-breezy bonding scenes with newcomer Thomas Robinson...
Total Film
The Switch is packaged as a romantic comedy, but it's neither romantic nor comic. It's one of those movies that's trying to be cheerful but is secretly dour and misanthropic. It's like being stuck on a bad date with Jennifer Aniston...
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Bateman and Aniston are fine but don't have any real chemistry together, whilst the direction is flat and rather uninteresting. It has the occasional good moment, but "The Switch" fails to push any buttons. Or, indeed, pull any switches.
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The Baltic Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A conventional yet entertaining romantic comedy...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
This might have worked better as a television episode or a short film, but as a feature, it's merely another one of those overly-long films where the audience must wait around in silence for the same conclusion we've seen countless times.
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Examiner.com
[A] friendly, offbeat romantic comedy. Bright spots come in performances by Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman as the leads...
Hollywood Reporter
Not the traditional stereotype of family but a love story of the best proportions. Switch on THE SWITCH.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
A woman approaching middle age yet still childless decides to get pregnant by artificial insemination, only to discover that the donor she chose may not be the father of her child in this comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. Wally Mars (Bateman) is a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist. Hopelessly neurotic and unrepentantly narcissistic, he gets no joy out of life except for the time he spends with his best friend Kassie (Jennifer Aniston). However, despite the fact that Wally pines to be more than just friends with Kassie, she isn't convinced they'd make a good couple. When Kassie announces to Wally that she's found the perfect sperm donor, he's crestfallen; as far as he's concerned, the ideal candidate is standing right in front of her. Later, Kassie selects handsome stranger Roland (Patrick Wilson) to provide the seed. Things get complicated when Kassie's best friend Debbie (Juliette Lewis) throws an "insemination party" to commemorate the big event, and Wally intercepts Roland's special delivery, drunkenly replacing it with his own before blacking out. Pregnant and content, Kassie leaves the city for Minnesota, where she gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Flash-forward seven years, and Kassie returns to New York with her son, Sebastian (Thomas Robinson), who shares an uncanny number of physical and psychological traits with embittered bachelor Wally. Before long Wally and Sebastian have become good friends, and Wally becomes convinced that the boy is his biological son. His ideal family is finally within reach, and if he can just figure out a means of breaking the news to Kassie gently, perhaps she'll find it in her heart to forgive him, and recognize that he'll make the perfect father for Sebastian.