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Playing It Cool
Directed by
Justin Reardon
R
2014
1h 34m
Comedy
,
Romance
5.9
15%
33%
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Unrequited love motivates a guy to write about his experiences.
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Cast of Playing It Cool
Chris Evans
Narrator
Michelle Monaghan
Her
Topher Grace
Scott
Aubrey Plaza
Mallory
Luke Wilson
Samson
Martin Starr
Lyle
Anthony Mackie
Bryan
Ioan Gruffudd
Stuffy
Philip Baker Hall
Granddad
Patrick Warburton
Dick
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale
Matthew Morrison
Matthew Morrison
Jaeden Martell
6 Year Old Me
Fabianne Therese
College Girl
Gerry Bednob
Cabbie / Gabriel
Beverly D'Angelo
Lyle's Girlfriend
Kyle Mooney
Other Dude
Scott Evans
Blissful Boy
Brenda Schmid
Blissful Girl
Sarah Dumont
Cute Girl
Mikaela Hoover
Lacey
Devon Ogden
Sadie
Justin Reardon
Director
Chris Shafer
Writer
Paul Vicknair
Writer
Craig J. Flores
Producer
McG
Producer
Mary Viola
Producer
Playing It Cool Ratings & Reviews
Fort Worth Weekly
Kristian M. Lin
Far from playing it cool, the filmmakers are trying way too hard to look cool, and so they achieve the opposite.
jackiekcooper.com
Jackie K. Cooper
Good chemistry between the leads but nothing else.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
'Playing It Cool' gave me a bad case of the rom-com blues. I was expecting '500 Days of Summer' and got 'Fool's Gold' instead.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Despite a few amusing diversions, the film consists of endless relationship discussions without any meaningful insight to show for it.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Tookie director Justin Reardon strains to make [Playing it Cool] the very kind of anti-rom com Me might actually enjoy, but we've seen it all before.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Only the really strong cast, including great chemistry between the leads, keeps "Playing It Cool" from totally derailing.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair's script feels like a first draft that was written in one night as they got pumped up on Red Bull and speed-watched Netflix.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
You know you're in trouble when almost every character is given a name except the two leads.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Proceeding with a strained quirkiness that infects much more than the names of its main characters, this first feature by Justin Reardon is a paean to the kind of narcissism that sucks the air out of every scene.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
It's not a great movie, but there are enough laughs and clever ideas to make it a passably entertaining comedy.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
If "Playing It Cool" is meant to be an ironic interpretation of what happens to these characters, the film isn't sharp, smart or insightful enough about how actual humans interact to pull it off.
Slant Magazine
Steve Macfarlane
As characters endlessly digress on the differences between rom-coms and real life, the film evinces a schizophrenic relationship with its own inside-baseball cynicism.
The Dissolve
Charles Bramesco
There's nothing clever or subversive about Playing It Cool, which makes the film's overt self-satisfaction exponentially more infuriating.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
It's dreary, unfunny work, but as a catalyst for future career reinvention, Evans couldn't have made a better professional choice.
Variety
Bill Edelstein
A broad romantic comedy that submits the genre to such a rigorous self-examination it nearly tips over into parody - which would have been a good thing.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
Evans has long lamented that his fans only seek out his Marvel work while his indie projects are largely ignored. Playing It Cool isn't likely to change that, unfortunately.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Proving that its chosen genre is best when its tropes are treated with a balance of sincere sweetness and wink-wink absurdity, Playing It Cool thrives through sheer liveliness, as well as the chemistry of its perfectly paired stars ...
Movie Mezzanine
Sean Burns
Note to screenwriters: if you've got a clichéd running-through-the-airport climax, having a character point out how clichéd it is doesn't make it any less so. It just makes you seem smug.
Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
Movies don't get much more meta than this: a film about a screenwriter worried about writing a rom-com script because he's never been in love...
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