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75
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San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
The ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A sharper edge could have taken a pretty good, if uneven, picture to greater heights, considering its potent ingredients and actors.
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63
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This is a frustrating film that takes its cutesy title way too literally.
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60
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card.
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50
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is slow and corny, but Whitaker gives commendable dignity to his everyday characters, and the acting is emotionally strong as long as the male romantic interest (Connick) isn't around.
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50
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
An insipid, stillborn drama that drags its viewers through a ghetto of despair before finally, unexpectedly plopping them down in the midst of a happy ending.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The pond is so shallow in this wan romance that there's no room for anything to float.
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40
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Floats is corny and false, with a script by Steven Rogers that's almost 100 percent artificial sweetener.
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