The Groomsmen R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Vivendi
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Edward Burns, John Leguizamo, Matthew Lillard, Donal Logue, Jay Mohr & Brittany Murphy | |
Performer: | John Mahoney, Heather Burns & Jessica Capshaw | |
Directed by | Edward Burns | |
Produced by | Margot Bridger & Philippe Martinez |
Entertainment Reviews:
Secure in its indie identity and wholly entertaining, The Groomsmen deserves hordes of filmgoers seeking quality alternatives to the bigger summer pictures.
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Film Journal International
Rating: B --
In a film of minor ambition, [the characters are] all worthy company.
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Entertainment Weekly
A standard big-weekend-where- friends-gather-and- everyone-has- a-secret movie.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: 2/4 --
The problem is that Burns -- who insists on writing all his own material -- isn't a very good writer.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: C+ --
Ed Burns repeats himself in his familiar territory about people who are young and stupid.
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Compuserve
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Its realistic portrayal of an almost extinct small-town dynamic between friends and family is not to be missed.
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Film Threat
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The Groomsmen may be low-cal Cassavetes or Secrets and Lies for mooks, but Burns knows his turf. The marvel is that after seven films he's still finding fresh grass.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
In the same vein as Edward Burns's previous films (THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN, SHE'S THE ONE), THE GROOMSMEN explores the difference between getting older and growing up. Written, directed by, and starring Burns, the film takes place in the days leading up to the wedding of Long Island-born Paulie (Burns). Joining Paulie for a week of alcohol-soaked bonding prior to the big day are his older brother Jimbo (Donal Logue), local buddy Des (Matthew Lillard), Cousin Mike (Jay Mohr), and long-absent childhood friend T.C. (John Leguizamo). While Paulie deals with a classic case of cold feet in anticipation of marrying his pregnant fiancé (Brittany Murphy), his groomsmen are inspired to deal with demons of their own. T.C.'s arrival, along with the pressures of seeing a close friend settle down, prompts much self-examination as old bonds are tested and new truths revealed. While the simple story here is pretty familiar territory, things are kept fresh thanks to an authentic sense of location and stellar performances by Jay Mohr as the perpetually childlike Mike (who at age 33, still lives at home with his father), and by Matthew Lillard as family guy Des, the one character in the film who seems to have come to grips with his own adulthood. Through extensive conversation over drinks, and physical squabbles at the softball diamond, these five friends grapple with one question: what makes a man a man' Pondering the question of why males nowadays put off the so-called marks of adulthood that their fathers achieved straight out of high school, THE GROOMSMEN offers more than one answer.