Finding Amanda

Name: Finding Amanda
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: June 30, 2008
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Brittany Snow, Matthew Broderick, Maura Tierney

2008

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HDNet Films | Release Date: June 30, 2008 | R

Starring: Brittany Snow, Matthew Broderick, Maura Tierney

Summary: From director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me, comes Finding Amanda, a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical comedy about the compulsions we can’t shake, and the unlikely lengths we’ll go to while trying. Taylor Mendon is a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hourFrom director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me, comes Finding Amanda, a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical comedy about the compulsions we can’t shake, and the unlikely lengths we’ll go to while trying. Taylor Mendon is a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hour sitcom. Once destined for bigger and better things, Taylor's compulsive gambling, recreational drug use and drinking all conspired to throw his career off the rails. After kicking the alcohol and drugs, he only has one more hurdle...the horses. His beautiful twenty - year old niece Amanda has her own habit to kick. Living in Las Vegas, working as a "dancer," her family has just discovered she is actually a prostitute, and they suspect hooking for drug money. On their way home from an emergency family meeting, Taylor's wife Lorraine finds recent racing stubs in Taylor's glove compartment. After years of standing by him, she leaves. Taylor comes up with a plan: he'll win back his wife by doing the right thing. He'll go to Las Vegas, find Amanda, and deliver her to a rehabilitation center in Malibu. While he’s at it, he might even catch up with some old friends. But besides that, it’s strictly the business at hand—while he's there, he vows, he won't gamble a single cent, but things don’t turn out quite as he’d planned. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

Director: Peter Tolan

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

This dark comedy of addiction, delusion and humor as a weapon marks the feature directing debut of veteran writer Peter Tolan. Read full review

Stephen Holden

If the title "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" didn’' already belong to Hunter S. Thompson, it would perfectly fit Peter Tolan's viciously funny satire, Finding Amanda. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Broderick has the film's most clever lines, but Snow is quite funny and is convincing as an innocent lured by the promise of easy money. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Although it avoids overt moralizing or clunky lesson-learning, pic's careful balancing act between tragedy and comedy eventually becomes its sole raison d'etre. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Finding Amanda is a minor movie for Broderick, but considering where it takes him, it's understandable why he took the role. Read full review

Ty Burr

Finding Amanda, unfortunately, is one vast, irritating surface. Read full review

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