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Catch and Release | 
| Director: Susannah Grant
Actors: Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith, Juliette Lewis
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 4299
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)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 13889
UPC: 043396138896
EAN: 0043396138896
ASIN: B00005JPF3
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: May 8, 2007
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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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Product Description
After the sudden death of her fianc Gray Wheeler (Garner) finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam (Kevin Smith) hyper-responsible Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and oddly enough his old childhood buddy Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) an irresponsible playboy whom she'd previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fianc emerge Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew and at the same time finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.Run Time: 112 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 043396138896 Manufacturer No: 13889
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 Boring, bland, and a bit pretentious October 6, 2008
Kevin D A Major (Barrington, NH United States)
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
Leslie J. Mills (San Francisco, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Glad I bought the movie even though I've seen it on TV a dozen times.
Bad flick. July 21, 2008
The Pantologist (Virginia)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As much as I liked Jennifer Garner in Alias, she couldn't save this movie. Boring, slow-moving plot. Unlikeable characters. Bad dialog. Don't waste your money.
 Great movie. June 7, 2008
J. S
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow this movie has some mixed reviews. I really like this movie and I dont know why. The plot is kind of messed up since the fiance has a girlfriend. So from that side of it I guess its not a good movie but it really has some great funny parts and since it has jen and the love of my life juliette its a great movie.lol. :)
Good bits, bad bits May 29, 2008
Kay L. Wallis (Brisbane, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't think this movie deserves the very good or very bad reviews.
I think it lacks a polished ending, some of the characters are not very well filled out (where are Gray's parents? Girl-friends?) & editing is what has killed this movie. Several scenes that possibly wound up on the cutting room floor (the original director's cut was over 3 hours) might have been better in the movie, and vice versa.
I don't think the central romantic relationship is that unbelievable. Attraction is a strange thing. I also think people who say Gray wouldn't have gone for Fritz perhaps miss the point that ours AND Gray's first impression of him is supposed to be proven to be incorrect. Perhaps a couple of scenes to help us warm to him might have helped?
All in all I don't think this was a disatrous movie but sadly I think it could have been so much better as the central premise is an interesting one and it had a good cast.
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