Dedication

A Beautiful Film
This is not your standard romantic comedy. The DVD box wants you to believe it is, but anyone looking for something like "How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days" is sorely mistaken. "Dedication", is a beautiful and heartfelt film tho, Justin Theroux makes a sensational directing debut. Fine performances from the always great Billy Crudup and the sweetheart only known as Mandy Moore. This is a film about redemption, loss and healing. Two lost souls who manage to find each other. Great music, great visuals and good work from all supporting players (Tom Wilkinson, Dianne Wiest, Christine Taylor, Martin Freeman, Peter Bogdanovich) make this a neat little indie film to see.

Like jagged glass
a bit dark, a big uncooth and broken, but beautiful, shining nevertheless.
I'm hesitant to compare this film to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Still, it's very much that kind of genre. So if that's your thing, this movie will deliver in every possible way and throw you through an entire spectrum of emotion and then some. It's believable, original; and yet still, very magical. Don't be fooled by the bland cover art, it's fantastic.

Bad Script. Implausible love affair.
Billy Crudup is damaged from childhood misery and OCD. He has no redeeming qualities and basically hates everyone, including the children he writes for in his "Marty the Beaver" books . It is hard to even feel pity for such a jerk. He talks to his recently dead partner and piles heavy objects on himself to feel safe. If this were a study in psychological disorders, it might get interesting. No...it is attempting to be funny but is merely annoying.

Mandy Moore plays a messy illustrator, who despite a good education, has not found her way and lives off her mother's resentful dole. Her publisher forces her to work with Crudup to get him to finish his next Beaver book. She also is considering whether to take back her now-successful, author-boyfriend who dumped her a year before. There is a very thin plotline that he has dedicated his soon-to-be published book to her, in hopes this will be the big gesture that earns him forgiveness. But as a backup, he wrote the same...

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