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Finding Amanda
Directed by
Peter Tolan
R
2008
1h 36m
Comedy
,
Drama
5.5
40%
28%
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A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
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Cast of Finding Amanda
Matthew Broderick
Taylor Peters
Brittany Snow
Amanda
Maura Tierney
Lorraine Mendon
Peter Facinelli
Greg
Steve Coogan
Michael Henry
Ed Begley Jr.
Self
Bill Fagerbakke
Larry
Patrick Fischler
Kevin - TV Executive
Daniel Roebuck
Link
Lester Speight
BV
J.P. Manoux
Tony Clark
Katy Mixon
Girl #1 with Greg
Peggy J. Scott
Sharon the Maid
Jennifer Rau
Whisper
Allan Wasserman
Dr. Chase
Jenni Blong
Paula
Signe Kiesel
Dealer at Casino
Allie McCulloch
Eve
Anthony Holiday
Arco
Atticus Todd
Gene
Victoria De Mare
Hot Club Goer #1 (uncredited)
Sean T. James
Insulting John (uncredited)
Kate Micucci
Thin Girl (uncredited)
Vitta Quinn
Vegas Hooker (uncredited)
Michael Proctor
Hot Guy (uncredited)
Finding Amanda Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Tolan writes regularly for smart shows like Rescue Me, but his best instincts deserted him when he set his sights on the big screen for the first time.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Written with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess.
Newsday
John Anderson
A very darkly humorous film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A peculiar film, which is really two films fighting to occupy the same space.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Set mostly in Las Vegas, Finding Amanda offers a vision of confused Americans losing their already shaky bearings in the world's gaudiest honky-tonk.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Much of Finding Amanda doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at its best the still-boyish Broderick suggests his most famous character, Ferris Bueller, going through a midlife crisis.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
It's amusing but facile, reasonably clever but hopelessly glib.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The film's tone shifts jarringly from superficial broad comedy to something far darker. And the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold scenario is as old as the profession itself.
Boxoffice Magazine
Amy Nicholson
The familiar premise here has sharp fangs, unsparing wit and a knockout performance by Brittany Snow as the round-heeled 20-year-old.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Finding Amanda, the alternate title of which might well have been "I Oughta Be in Rehab," is an uneasy chronicle of addiction and denial wrapped in the rhythms of Neil Simon.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It can be done -- there are rich, sordid black comedies out there -- but Tolan doesn't quite pull it off.
CinemaBlend
Katey Rich
Though Finding Amanda's story reaches a reasonably satisfying conclusion, the empty characters at its center make the whole thing feel like a waste.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Matthew Broderick regains his cinematic stride as a morosely wise-cracking television producer on the skids, ably abetted by Maura Tierney as his much-put-upon wife and Brittany Snow as his perky prostitute niece.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Broderick's sunny spin on the deeply flawed Taylor is interesting but eventually defies belief. In the third act, Finding Amanda loses steam altogether.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Amanda can never find a tone. It opens with a scene-reading (Taylor is a writer on a hacky TV show) that produces yawns, where our lead character is the only one that laughs. It's prophetic.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Finding Amanda has its wispy charms, including a funny scene when the ecstasy Taylor pops begins to kick in, and later when he encounters a pimp with showbiz aspirations.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
By keeping the tone light and the players human (Steve Coogan has a nice turn as a greasy casino host), and never, ever romanticizing the addict, Finding Amanda comes by its heartbreak honestly.
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