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Love and Other Catastrophes (1996) Rank 5 Reviews
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A Journal X review of Love and Other Catastrophes
San Francisco Chronicle (Ruthe Stein)
San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Love and Other Catastrophesfocuses entertainingly on the romances and day-to-day dilemmas of five college-aged friends. You might even think you're watching an episode ofFriends, except everyone's talking with funny accents and they're ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
The Spinning Image
Anchorage Press (J.B. Richmond)
Tucson Weekly (Piers Marchant)
Jeanne Chappé - Films Outside the Loop
Washington Post (Desson Howe)
Spirituality & Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
IMDB.com
LOVE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES is not very good nor very bad film. Low budget was matched by lack of experiences and ingenuity of its authors, yet those deficiencies were compensated by great enthusiasm of the cast and clever use of autobiographical ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at IMDB.com
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
An intellectually sanitized and overtly sensitive look at love and higher learning on a college campus, Down Under. But first time director, twenty-three-year-old, Emma-Kate Croghan, bites off more than she can chew. She is more concerned with her ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
I suppose Croghan thought she was bringing something new to the screen with Love and Other
Catastrophes, although I can't imagine what. Admittedly, this is the first Generation X
comedy that I can recall being photographed through an ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Box Office Magazine
IMDB.com
Firsttime screenwriters Helen Bandis, Yael Bergman, and EmmaKate Croghan tackle the problem of a large cast of leading characters by making them out of interchangeable parts. Since the characters and their demeanors are remarkably similar, the writers ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at IMDB.com
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
``Love and Other Catastrophes'' is one of those first films that makes you long for the second one. Shot in 17 days on lunch money, it's a campus comedy about love, roommates, professors, ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
IMDB.com
The plot follows a day in the life of five Australian university students coping with various minor dilemmas. Mia (Frances O'Connor), a flighty lesbian, is forced to navigate a bureaucratic obstacle course to change programs, on the same day she is ...read the complete Love and Other Catastrophes movie review at IMDB.com
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