Must Love Dogs (Mother's Day Gift Set with Card and Gift Wrap) | 
 enlarge | Director: Gary David Goldberg
Actors: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  151 reviews
Sales Rank: 102743
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: Armenian (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD80612D
UPC: 012569806122
EAN: 0012569806122
ASIN: B000E8N9DS
Theatrical Release Date: July 29, 2005
Release Date: April 18, 2006
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The combined charisma of Diane Lane and John Cusack gives a lift to Must Love Dogs, a romantic comedy built on the comic potential of internet dating. Sarah (Lane, Under the Tuscan Sun), a preschool teacher and recent divorcee, has her entire family bugging her to get back in the dating pool. Finally her sister (dependable second banana Elizabeth Perkins, Big) puts an ad for Sarah online; a host of questionable prospects respond, but Sarah meets one guy--a boat builder named Jake (John Cusack, High Fidelity, Say Anything)--who shows promise, though he himself is recently divorced and a little tender. Unfortunately, Sarah also feels sparks with the father (Dermot Mulroney, My Best Friend's Wedding) of one of her students, and when paths cross, trouble follows. Must Love Dogs has some amusing scenes, but the tone and quality is wildly erratic--it's as if the movie was broken into a dozen parts and randomly assigned to different writers and directors, some of whom were making a bad sitcom, some of whom were making a good sitcom, and some of whom were making a movie that blended wry comedy with some deft psychological insight. The great cast (in addition to solid work from those mentioned above, there's also Stockard Channing and Christopher Plummer) keep the story moving, but for every amusing moment there are two that are plastic, forced, or wince-inducing. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/18/2006 Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg13
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 Fun to watch. January 6, 2009
Carroll I. Slider (Decatur, Il USA)
Great fun. The sisters remind me of my daughters. Enjoyed it very much.
Great movie October 6, 2008
Dennis Bettendorf
I liked this movie alot.It is one of the funniest movies I've watched in a long time.I am also a Diane Lane fan, I thing she did a superb job. The rest of the cast pulled all together. Worth the time to watch !
 BORING... July 26, 2008
Avid Reader (Hammond, LA)
Incredibly slow moving; I almost turned it off mid way. What I did like about it was the interaction Sarah had with her sisters and her father. Other than that, it is low on plot and they could have finished the movie in about 45 minutes. Great actors, poor movie.
 A slightly generous four stars May 11, 2008
ACH (North Carolina)
This is a predictable, yet still mostly clever, romantic comedy. The heroine is recently divorced and not quite ready to admit she wants to start dating. Her meddlesome family is fairly endearing, the scenes with the losers they set her up with are mostly comical, and we do start to root for the romance to blossom. But it unravels a bit near the end. We know she's going to go back to the hero and the delays seem forced, almost like they had leftover dating scenes from the beginning that they didn't want to waste. The final mad dash at the end, when a simple phone call would have sufficed, was ridiculous. And the moment she jumped in the water, the movie lost most of its credibility.
Overall, a light movie good for some laughs, but it probably wouldn't hold up to much repeat viewing.
Amanda Hamm, author of Dear Jane Letters
 I am so sick of movies like this! February 2, 2008
Linda (Missouri, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am so tired of movies where the entire plot seems to revolve around sex. In this case how long its been since the main character had it, how much her siblings encourage her to get it from anyone, how much can the guys get and how many girls can they get it from, etc. This entire movie was like this from start to finish. I didn't even care that the girl ended up with her guy at the end.
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