Dedication | 
| Director: Justin Theroux
Actors: Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Christine Taylor, Bob Balaban
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 14984
Format: Color, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WEID80987D
UPC: 796019809870
EAN: 0796019809870
ASIN: B00104AYFQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 12, 2008
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 09/16/2008 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
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At first glance, Justin Theroux's directorial debut looks like a romantic comedy, but it's really a character study. And misanthropic children's book author Henry (Billy Crudup, who worked with Theroux in Broadway's Three Sisters) is one heck of a character. For inspiration, he turns to the Japanese cult classic Gamera. When feeling stressed, he piles books on his prone chest. Henry has worked with illustrator Rudy (Tom Wilkinson, Crudup's Stage Beauty co-star) for 15 years when the unthinkable happens. Contractually obligated to produce another Marty the Beaver adventure, his agent (Bob Balaban) partners him with doctoral-candidate-turned-artist Lucy (Mandy Moore). While Henry mourns his only friend, Lucy nurses a broken heart--her mother/landlord (Dianne Wiest) has just evicted her and her boyfriend/thesis advisor (Martin Freeman) has just dumped her. It's discomfort at first sight, but feelings soften as these wounded personalities learn to work--and heal--together. You can see the conclusion coming from a mile away, and Moore's character is underwritten (David Bromberg penned the script), but Crudup makes what could be an indie film cliche--the New York neurotic--almost seem fresh. As for Theroux, a busy actor best known for his movies with David Lynch, like Mulholland Drive, the first-timer has a sharp eye for the arresting image and a discriminating ear for the evocative tune--the soundtrack includes music by alternative rock favorites Deerhoof, Cat Power, and Joanna Newsom. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 One of my favorite movies March 23, 2009
J. Pane (Long Island, NY)
Well directed, well written and well acted. There's a humor in the story that isn't common. This film is a sleeper. One person will watch it and dismiss it as just another romantic comedy, and another will see it for what it actually is: multiple talents working together to create an excellent movie. Loved it.
 Offbeat, but ultimately unlikeable February 23, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Billy Crudup plays a misanthropic self-hater full of obsessive quirks that make no sense and that turn him into an extraordinarily unlikeable schmuck. Therefore, the film makes no sense in its attempt to redeem him with Mandy Moore playing his baby-talking foil. His relationship with his late father appears to be his central reason d'etre, but that makes no sense either. The plot makes out another guy to be worse than Billy because he wrote two dedications to his pending book, one for Mandy Moore and one for another girlfriend, depending on which one takes him back. Got it? In the end, this film is annoying, but it is certainly not the lightweight romantic comedy you figure it is from the packaging. Watch it if you like Mandy Moore.
 still havn't recieved it February 2, 2009
Trisha D. Koon (Cannon AFB, NM)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i ordered this movie weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived. i sent an email to the seller and still have not heard back. very dissatsfied.
Dedication by Brandon October 2, 2008
Brandon Moskos
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this movie in the theaters and had to buy the dvd. First of all, I love Mandy Moore and would buy anything with her in it. It's a romantic love story about a man with serious issues and he falls for Mandy. Very good.
Neither Romantic Nor Comedy September 8, 2008
Howard Nemerov (TX, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Two men view porn films to gather ideas for children's books. Since this was the most original idea in the movie, I recommend that these DVDs be immediately promoted to coffee cup coasters. The main male character is a victim of child abuse who never faced it, instead developing various obsessive compulsive behaviors in order to make him so busy with minutiae (like arranging napkin and sugar dispensers at the restaurant) that he is too busy to heal. He spends who knows how much time searching for a special rock that he gave to the female lead and then threw away, eventually finding it among the myriad stones of the beach. While some symbolism may be intended, is giving her the rock supposed to be his cathartic experience and now everybody lives happily ever after? The female lead, whose posture indicates more a need for therapy and Pilates than a relationship, gets to choose between a man who cheated on her and one whose emotional scars leave him emotionally unavailable unless she enjoys navigating the pits and falls of his damaged emotional landscape. A dreary miasma of moral relativism, substitution of co-dependency, and celebration of victim-hood as a replacement for self-actualization and love.
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