French Kiss

Release Date:Rating:

January 1st, 1995

Genres:

Drama, Comedy

Subgenres:

Romance

Plot Synopsis:

Charlie goes to France but his finacia, Kate, who is terrified of airplanes, stays behind. Charlie meets his true love and calls Kate and tells her he is breaking up with her. Determined to get him...

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Directed: Lawrence Kasdan Written: Adam Brooks
Starring: Adam Brooks, Elisabeth Commelin, Barbara Schulz, Laurent Spielvogel, Michael Riley

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[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

Ryan's comic timing continues to delight, while Kline is touchingly heartfelt as a man doing what is evidently all too easy to do -- fall in love with Meg Ryan.
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[+] Chicago Tribune

75

In French Kiss--a picture that isn't unusually funny or original but that has expert actors, smooth direction and ravishing French locales--we can get pleasure from the sheer, relaxed polish of it all, the effortless swing. It's a good time passer. [5 May 1995, p.C]
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[+] Washington Post

70

Ryan secretes cuteness as if suffering from an overactive pituitary gland. And in Lawrence Kasdan's latest, she gives you nothing more or less than herself.
by Desson Howe | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

70

The caper isn't as passionate as the title suggests--in fact, it's facile--but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together.
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[+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer

67

Kline saves the movie and makes it something special. He does this not only by mastering the dialect and mannerisms and convincing us he is French, but by skillfully underplaying the character and slowly revealing his humanity. It's a master star turn: He makes a better Gerard Depardieu than Gerard Depardieu. [5 May 1995, p.28]
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[+] Los Angeles Times

60

French Kiss tries to be a glass of pink champagne, but some of the fizz has gone out of the bottle. But director Lawrence Kasdan and screenwriter Adam Brooks cram so many potshots into the piece that, after a while, it makes you laugh anyway.
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[+] San Francisco Examiner

50

French Kiss has only a tenuous hold on reality; it is far more fully steeped in the conventions of latter-day movie romance than in the messy actualities of real-life mating.
by Scott Rosenberg | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

50

Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place. A movie about this kind of material either should be about people who feel true passion or should commit itself as a comedy. Compromise is pointless.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] ReelViews

50

The delicate air of romance that often makes this sort of film worthwhile is absent. French Kiss does it by the numbers, not from the heart.
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[+] Christian Science Monitor

50

Kevin Kline has some amusing moments, but Meg Ryan's acting runs out of energy, and Lawrence Kasdan's directing is too laid-back to help her out. [7 Jul 1995, p.13]
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[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

50

For a screwball comedy, it takes a long time to wind up, and Kline's Frenchman is an outright cartoon. But Ryan manages to hold attention. [6 Oct 1995, p.C2]
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[+] The New York Times

40

French Kiss may have a more putatively foolproof formula, but everyone here has done vastly more interesting work. Too much gets lost in translation.
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[+] Austin Chronicle

30

What it all boils down to is that if you don't mind that artificially flavored, plastic-bagged, stale pink and purple stuff that gets passed off as cotton candy these days, you will probably like French Kiss. But if I'm going to indulge in the sweet stuff, it needs to be fresher than this.
by Hollis Chacona | Read Full Review »
[+] Boston Globe

25

French Kiss is a French miss. It's got the settings, but it has little magic, less charm and almost no chemistry between Meg Ryan's heartsick American innocent and Kevin Kline's shady Frenchman. [5 May 1995, p.57]
by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »

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