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Catch and Release | 
 enlarge | Director: Susannah Grant
Actors: Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith, Juliette Lewis
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 2108
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 112
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD13889D
UPC: 043396138896
EAN: 0043396138896
ASIN: B00005JPF3
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: May 8, 2007
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The film follows gray wheeler while she confronts her grief over the death of her seemingly perfect fiance. When gray turns to her fiances friends for emotional support she discovers that there were a few things she didnt know about her late beau. She also starts to develop feelings for one of his friends. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/23/2008 Starring: Jennifer Garner Juliette Lewis Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg13
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Jennifer Garner's lips grow more Angelina-esque every year. In the romantic comedy Catch and Release, Garner (Alias, 13 Going On 30) plays Gray Wheeler, a young woman whose fiance dies unexpectedly before the wedding, leaving Gray unable to afford her home--so she moves in with her fiance's best friends, Sam (Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and Dogma) and Dennis (Sam Jaeger, Lucky Number Slevin). But the presence of another old friend named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood) leads to the unveiling of a secret: Gray's fiance had a child with another woman. Catch and Release lacks the clear story structure that most romantic comedies are built on, but trades it for a richer sense of the ambiguities of human relationships. Garner, though lovely and personable, is a bit bland--fortunately, she's surrounded by actors with all kinds of edges, including Smith (who shows an unexpected and uncloying earnest side), Fiona Shaw (from the Harry Potter movies) as the fiance's grieving mother, and Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), who demonstrates once again her powers as a fearless and surprising actress. Catch and Release is an uneven movie, with a remarkably elegant visual style that sometimes clashes with the workmanlike dialogue, but it can't be written off as the same old Hollywood claptrap. Though a happy ending is inevitable, the path it takes has some surprising turns and flashes of unexpected emotional depth.-- Bret Fetzer Stills from Catch and Release (click for larger image) Beyond Catch and Release on Amazon.com 
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 Film with depth December 2, 2008
Though the studio clearly had no idea how to market this delightful film, it shines amidst more lackluster and formulaic movies. It may not fit into a "comedy" or "drama" category, but the writing and acting portray greater depth - how you can laugh and cry all at once. Showing that life is more that just funny lines or easy love stories, "Catch and Release" offers complex characters and honesty. Beautifully done.
 Utterly Charming December 1, 2008
Timothy Olyphant is my new movieland crush! I loved him in Deadwood and I love him even more in this film. He and Jennifer Garner have great chemistry in this delightful, warm, funny, romantic, well-acted movie. The premise is clever and although there are one or two disjointed scenes, every character contributes to the story in a heartwarming way. Olyphant's nuanced performance is honest and sexy! Yum, yum..... Ladies especially, don't miss this one.
Cute little movie November 11, 2008
I went into watching this with no idea what to expect. I haven't really seen Jennifer Garner in much of anything (wasn't an Alias fan) but I like Kevin Smith and I think Timothy Olyphant is really cute :) so I decided to give it a chance.
This is actually a very sweet, heartfelt little movie. It doesn't contain many earth-shattering revelations about the Meaning of Life but it is head and shoulders above most romantic comedies, in my opinion. It does bring up some interesting points in answer to the question, "How well do we really know the people we love?" I thought that Garner's characters' struggles with the aftermath of her fiance's death - the big secret he concealed from her, dealing with her ex-future-mother-in-law, the roommate who blames himself for her fiance's death, the roommate who is in love with her, the friend who was complicit in her fiance's dishonesty who she's now attracted to, the "other woman," etc. - were realistically-portrayed and entertaining to watch.
Garner was delightful in this role and I thought portrayed the emotions and mental struggles of her character very authentically. Kevin Smith was great - you forget what a good actor he can be because his own movies get so bogged down in substituting volume of dialogue for quality. In this he actually brings a lot of subtle humor and heart to his role, which in his hands would probably have not been handled nearly as deftly. Timothy Olyphant is deliciously sexy and he also brings a lot of subtle light and shading to his role, and plays the romantic hero in a bit of a different way than you usually see. The movie did have some interesting points about how much we blind ourselves to the faults of the people we love. One of my favorite scenes was very near the end, when Gray is talking about a perfect day on the river she shared with her fiance. At the end of the day, driving home, he says he needs to tell her something, and she asks if it will make her happier or less happy. When he says "less happy" she tells him not to tell her. I think we all have a tendency to choose blissful ignorance over painful knowledge where are loved ones are concerned, and can make ourselves be happy with that even when we know we're choosing not to know the whole truth about them.
All in all, this is not a real "feel-good" picture although the ending is happy. It's not a tortured indie but nor is it a brainless mush of a rom-com that we've all seen a hundred million times. I liked it because it was serious and dealt with tough subjects but was uplifting overall. I hate brainless movies, but I also dislike how depressing many "serious" movies are. I don't need any more reasons to lose faith in my fellow man; if I want to see man's inhumanity to man all I have to do is turn on the evening news. I liked "Catch and Release" because it was not a dumb movie but it was not depressing either. Recommended for cynics like me, who still believe in love at the end of the day. :)
 Boring, bland, and a bit pretentious October 6, 2008
Catch and Release is, in a word, boring. The main plot - a woman learning and coping with the knowledge that her dead fiance is not the man she thought he was - should have been enough meet for a quality writer to carve out a satisfying story. Instead, Catch and Release is a sloppy brew of grief, romance, comedy, and tragedy without any focus to speak of.
Jennifer Garner's performance was bland. It seems as though she has two emotions: confusion, and on-the-verge-of-crying. The perpetual pout she exhibits does nothing but emphasize her lack of acting chops. It's as though the director found that one emotion she can display with some ability and told her to hold that look throughout the film.
The supporting cast is largely useless. While they all serve some purpose in driving a particular plot element home, as people they're primarily two-dimensional. There's the funny guy who is really a bit emotionally troubled. There's the guy secretly in love with Garner but isn't the man for her. It's as though each character's personality and motivation came from an index card rather than from something more organic.
Character growth, unsurprisingly, is virtually non-existent. The only character to really change is Kevin Smith's. Given that he's primarily comic relief and all-but-ignored during the last quarter of the film, it strikes me as odd that he'd be the one to truly show some change. The rest all move away, but never really move on. Maybe that's the point, but given the lack of subtlety and artistic vision in this film, I sincerely doubt it. That's not the worst of it, however.
The engine of the plot mainly seems to be sitcom-esque misunderstandings. A half-heard conversation here, a rude note left on the counter here, and the plot moves one notch forward. It would be bearable if comedic hijinks stemmed from these convenient mistakes, but instead the characters are left temporarily wounded. If that wasn't enough, it's all largely predictable.
This movie follows a clear formula. The scenes alternate between Garner's attempts to cope with her new life and the secondary character's similar attempts to grow up and/or move on from their own hangups and insecurities. After each scene, overly-emotional college rock is played in an attempt to hammer home the emotional point. It's all rather transparent and, by the end of the movie, nauseating. It's also an obvious attempt to pull at the viewer's heartstrings, but suffers because of it. Indeed, it seems like something a first year theater student would try. In trying to portray the movie and characters as being 'in' with the college crowd, the director proves that they are anything but.
In the end, Catch and Release is flawed from the first minute. With Garner's perpetual pout, a boring script, no sense of pacing, and obvious attempts at convincing the viewer that, no, seriously, this is a cool film for college students, this film doesn't even deserve a rental. Don't waste your time on this drek.
Catch and Release is a great movie! October 4, 2008
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Glad I bought the movie even though I've seen it on TV a dozen times.
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