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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019809870
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 11615
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dedication is a modern love story in which a misanthropic emotionally complex children s book author named Henry is forced to team up with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love. System Requirements:Run Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 796019809870 Manufacturer No: 80987
Amazon.com:
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 cliché--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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dedication by Brandon
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.
Rating:  - Neither Romantic Nor Comedy
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Dedication to Love and Life
Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) writes books for children all the while
suffering from the ramifications of a childhood with a missing father
and an abusive, probably violent, mother. He has a bit of an OCD
problem as well.
His mentor, best friend, and parent replacement, is Rudy Holt (Tom
Wilkinson), who illustrates Henry's books. When Rudy dies, Henry is
devastated. He keeps imagining seeing Rudy, thus continuing to let
'Rudy' tell him how to handle Life. ... Read More
Rating:  - An Uncaring Protagonist, a Choppy Script and Indie Film Flourishes Can't Mask a Weak Love Story
Like the central protagonist, this 2007 movie is a misbegotten mess. Making his directorial debut, actor Justin Theroux gets carried away with every film school trick in the book with self-conscious camerawork, annoying jump cuts and a music soundtrack that apparently has to comment on every scene. With a strangely cryptic first-time screenplay by David Bromberg, the movie boasts an impressive cast that includes Tom Wilkinson and Dianne Wiest, but it asks us to empathize with an obsessive-compulsive ... Read More
Rating:  - You'll wonder why you're not OCD
Billy Crudup plays Henry Roth, a children's writer who isn't sure what his next steps in life are. He is OCD and extremely cautious. He fears cars and isn't crazy about sex. He likes Japanese Monster films and harbors ill feelings for certain people in his life, especially women. Basically the only the he trusts is his illustrator (played by Tom Wilkinson) who dies right before their next book is supposed to be published.
This is where Lucy Reilly (played by Mandy Moore) comes in as a young ... Read More
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