The Fortune
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: May 20, 1975 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The Fortune is an occasionally enjoyable comedy trifle, starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty as bumbling kidnappers of heiress Stockard Channing, who is excellent in her first major screen role. Very classy 1920s production values often merit more attention than the plot. Read full review
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Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Events degenerate into miscalculated farce and underline Nichols' continuing slick superficiality. Adrien Joyce's much hacked-about script sounds as though it was once excellent: a pity everyone treats it so off-handedly. Read full review
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The New YorkerPauline Kael
The tone is too playful, too bright. Is the heiress herself meant to be a treasure? Is she meant to be charmingly klutzy? You can't tell.
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NewsweekPaul D. Zimmerman
One is left longing for Mike Nichols, the brilliant satirist who made us laugh at our foibles, but who seems to have given way to a cynical, grimly grinning moralist. [26 May 1975, p.84]
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