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Catch and Release
Directed by
Susannah Grant
PG-13
2006
1h 51m
Comedy
,
Drama
,
and more
5.9
23%
55%
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A woman struggles to accept the death of her fiancé and the secrets he kept from her as she rebuilds her life.
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Cast of Catch and Release
Jennifer Garner
Gray Wheeler
Timothy Olyphant
Fritz Messing
Kevin Smith
Sam
Sam Jaeger
Dennis
Juliette Lewis
Maureen Monette
Fiona Shaw
Mrs. Ellen Douglas
Joshua Friesen
Mattie
Tina Lifford
Eve
Christopher Redmond
Flower Delivery Guy
Joyce Krenz
Housekeeper
Sonja Bennett
Caterer
Yorgo Constantine
Co-worker
Georgia Craig
Persephone
Michael Adamthwaite
Cowboy
Nancy Wetzel
Cyclist
Dillard Brinson
Michael Soltman
Terence Kelly
Mr. Wheeler
Gabrielle Rose
Mrs. Wheeler
Sacha Levin
Drummer
Marcus Hondro
Principal (uncredited)
Darren Daurie
Ambulance Attendent (uncredited)
John Destry
Paint Salesman
Kyla Wise
Comforting Friend
Jennifer Spence
Comforting Friend
Leanna Nash
Comforting Friend
Wendy Noel
Comforting Friend
Leslie McMichael
Jogstroller
Dan Parker
Deadhead Singer
Nancy Hower
Deadhead Singer
Susannah Grant
Director / Writer
Jenno Topping
Producer
Catch and Release Ratings & Reviews
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Release yourself from boredom by giving it a miss.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
I was pleasantly surprised.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
An archetypal date movie with a good heart.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
One of those movies where the small pleasures stack up high enough to dwarf the disappointments.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
If grief were as easily overcome as it is in Catch and Release, Prozac sales would be in dire trouble.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
A romantic non-comedy.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The film suffers from a style that settles for pleasant or touching at the cost of spontaneous or impassioned. Too bad, because Ms. Garner is a genuinely pleasing presence.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
There's barely anything new in this well-designed, prettily shot piece of fluff hewn from the realm of tragic-comic romance immemorial.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Susannah Grant's movie is rough around the edges, but once you get used to the laconic pace, the plot grooves along nicely.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Screenwriter Susannah Grant makes her directing debut with a romance that wants to respect the mess of love and loss but winds up smoothing all its rough edges with a Hollywood pumice stone.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
However diverting are Garner, Smith and the scenery, the ricochet-romance aspect of Grant's film is, frankly, icky.
Newsweek
John Hartl
Garner and [writer/director] Grant work hard to push the picture into unexplored territory, and the cringe-worthy moments are easy to overlook.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The romantic comedy Catch and Release is refreshing for what it doesn't have. There is no whiny, spoiled golden girl and no baring of claws.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The chick comedy-drama Catch and Release may look bland, but it's not. It's worse. To rise to the level of blandness, it would need to have a few gallons of Tabasco dumped into it.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A film that a talented veteran of romantic comedy would have had trouble pulling off, let alone a screenwriter (Susannah Grant wrote Erin Brockovich) who has never directed a film before.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Neither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, Catch and Release, the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant, is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable charm.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A noteworthy mess for the sheer mass of talent it squanders, Catch and Release is best not caught.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
There are some interesting, if less than original, ideas stuck between all the comic banter and the unlikely romantic relationship you see coming a mile away, but the film never finds a way to marry the less-than-convincing melodrama with the melancholy.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
A romantic comedy-drama with little comedy, no drama and less romance than your average YouTube video.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
This fish-themed romance flops wildly all over the place, from heavy poignant moments to slapsticky comedy, with a healthy dose of soapy melodrama in between.
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