Five Little Words Can Change Your Life
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack Carpenter, Lauren London, Lauren Storm, Shawn Roberts, Jared Keeso, Brendan Penny |
| Director |
Chris Columbus |
| Screenplay | Larry Doyle, from his novel |
| Music | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematography | Phil Abraham |
| Editing | Peter Honess |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | 1492 Pictures, Bece Canada Productions, Fox Atomic |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | Fairly frequent, moderate |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Frequent sexual references and innuendo, moderate |
| Violence | Fairly frequent, fairly strongly implied |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Infrequent |
| Drug abuse | Some alcohol |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Mark Olsen | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Paul Boekkooi | 5 | |
| Cape Times Michael Sragow | 15 |  |
| The Citizen Bruce Dennill | 10 |  |
| Box Office Tim Cogshell  High School wasn’t nearly this angsty or lusty but it certainly was this awkward and unfunny | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Will Sloan Pitched awkwardly between the semi-realistic comedy-of-embarrassment of Superbad and the slapstick surrealism of a direct-to-video American Pie sequel, I Love You, Beth Cooper is both too contrived and too clichéd to work as an effective coming-of-age dramedy | 5 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli I Love You, Beth Cooper is schizophrenic - two very different movies uneasily occupying the same space and time. One of them has promise; the other is annoying and off-putting. The filmmakers lacked the courage and conviction to tell an honest, character-based story and resorted to something that has been massaged into a more comfortable, easily consumable cinematic morsel. Too bad the inevitable result of ingesting this is heartburn. | 10 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs Not horrendous but clearly a pale, weak and unnecessary imitator of what Ferris Bueller did so many years ago. | 6 | |
| Metacritic.com 29 critics | 6 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 80 critics | 7 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Heavily reliant on stereotypes and shallow teen comedy clichés, I Love You Beth Cooper is a humorless affair that fails to capture the charm of its source novel. | 3 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1325 Netizens Not gold, but not trash as some are making it out to be | 9 | |
Average .. 37% | 7 | |