ORIGINAL TITLE I Give It a Year

YEAR 2013

RUNNING TIME 97 min. 

COUNTRY
DIRECTOR Dan Mazer
SCREENWRITER Dan Mazer
COMPOSER Ilan Eshkeri

CINEMATOGRAPHER Ben Davis

CAST Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Rafe Spall, Simon Baker, Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant, Jason Flemyng, Olivia Colman

STUDIO/PRODUCER StudioCanal / Translux / Working Title Films

GENRE Romance. Comedy

SYNOPSIS/PLOT A look at the trials and tribulations of a pair of newlyweds during their first year as a married couple.

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"Skillfully customizing a traditional chassis and then souping it up with bawdy, 'Bridesmaids'-style humor, 'I Give It a Year' (...) updates (...) Working Title’s romantic-comedy (...) style for the 2010s" (Leslie Felperin: Variety)

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"An above-average number of laugh-out-loud set pieces compensate for the resulting wobbly narrative" (Megan Lehmann: The Hollywood Reporter)

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"In the end it amounts to not much, but in the moment I laughed a lot (...) Rating: *** (out of five)" (Robbie Collin: Telegraph)

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"The result is funny and plausible, with a fair bit of newly modish Bridesmaidsy bad taste, though I kept getting the sense that the romcom template meant Mazer couldn't really let rip with pure comedy pessimism and cynicism in the way he might have liked (...) Rating: *** (out of five)" (Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian)

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"The jokes are strong and delivered by a very talented cast, but the heart isn’t there. It’s easy to laugh, but hard to care (...) Rating: *** (out of five)" (Olly Richards: Empire)

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"This painfully awkward product fails on almost every level" (Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times)

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