The Sweetest Thing

Name: The Sweetest Thing
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: April 12, 2002
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 32
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Thomas Jane

2002

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 2002 | R

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Thomas Jane

Summary: A romantic comedy without the sugar, The Sweetest Thing is a fresh twist on the search for love. (Columbia Pictures)

Director: Roger Kumble

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 88 min

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Desson Thomson

That cameraderie is bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time. Read full review

John Anderson

The trick is getting from a conclusion made five minutes into a movie to an ending 90 minutes away. It can be a scary prospect. In The Sweetest Thing it is mostly a hoot. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn ''empowerment.'' Read full review

James Berardinelli

Has some promise as a throw-away, lighthearted romance. Unfortunately, once those elements are gone, what's left only has a running time of about 13 minutes. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Christina Applegate, of Eighties white-trash pinup fame, is a comic foil par excellence, delivering a snazzy, self-assured performance that lands the biggest laughs in a movie made mostly of hollow chuckles. She, in fact, is the sweetest thing in this sour, sucky film. Read full review

David Ansen

Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair are asked to humiliate themselves many times over in The Sweetest Thing, and they do it with such game good spirits that they ought to get the actor’s equivalent of a Purple Heart.

Dennis Lim

One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made. Read full review

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MegWhiteley

Jul 29, 2012

Ok the movie can be horrible an terrible, but have some funny moments. The performances are very regular, the development of the story is bad but funny. The Sweetest Thing is bad and funny.

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jimmytancredi

May 29, 2011

Funny. Acid. Some hilarious scenes. A good movie to laugh with friends, and obviously when you have no restrictions. It was a little forced in some scenes however it has made history in reverse, since usually in the movies who apears is the guy 'chicken' who falls in and runs back and thisFunny. Acid. Some hilarious scenes. A good movie to laugh with friends, and obviously when you have no restrictions. It was a little forced in some scenes however it has made history in reverse, since usually in the movies who apears is the guy 'chicken' who falls in and runs back and this time the girl is who made everything.… Expand

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DougLeprechaun

Mar 21, 2021

I'm writing this as a warning to other writers. I got ripped off and it involves, "The Sweetest Thing." First, I am a produced screenwriter. I wrote "Leprechaun in the Hood," for Trimark Pictures less than 1 year after I started writing. I never particularly wanted to write screenplays, butI'm writing this as a warning to other writers. I got ripped off and it involves, "The Sweetest Thing." First, I am a produced screenwriter. I wrote "Leprechaun in the Hood," for Trimark Pictures less than 1 year after I started writing. I never particularly wanted to write screenplays, but I bet a friend I could sell something in less than a year - and I did. I have never taken Hollywood seriously.

I wrote a teen comedy and shopped it around ("I Saw, I Conquered, I Came") in the mid-2000s. I registered it with the WGA, and I can stand by what I am writing. I never got any traction but it went to several contests, something I rarely did. The Sweetest Thing came out in 2002. In about 2010, I saw this movie for the first time. There's a scene about midway through where a character is having sex with her boyfriend while he wears an animal costume. That got my attention because that was straight out of a script I wrote. At the end of this movie is the iconic scene where a couple get each other's genitalia piercings stuck and end up calling the fire department. Again, right out of my script. After seeing two scenes I had written in my script play out exactly as this movie portrays (sex in an animal costume of all things, and the couple getting their piercings stuck together), well, let's just say I'm very suspicious as to how they ended up in this writer's (Nancy Pimental) draft. I also know that Directors and "Script Doctors" borrow and steal from other scripts they read, so I won't go as far to say that the writer directly stole it from me... but the incidence of having two scenes from one script I wrote end up in someone's movie... makes me very suspicious. So if you're a writer, don't be as worried about your script being stolen - worry more that scenes get stolen. And remember that Hollywood is nothing more than High School with money...

As far as this movie...I give it a "C-."… Expand

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NesK.

Apr 20, 2008

Never seen such a vulgar, brassy film ever. Really disgusting dirty scenes at toilets, a lot of underwear, and lousy gags. Degrading all women to sexobjects, full of men fantasy.

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