Movie Review for Rumor Has It...

Summary: Sarah Huttinger's life is in a tailspin. She's finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but isn't at all sure that marriage is what she really wants--in fact, she's not sure what she wants in general. As conflicted as she is about her love life, her professional life isn't much better--an aspiring journalist, Sarah's career has stalled at the New York Times obituary column. To top it all off, she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding, which means spending a lot of time with her tennis-obsessed Pasadena family. Somewhat of a black sheep, Sarah's never quite felt a part of things when it comes to her relatives. But when she meets Internet millionaire Beau Burroughs, their encounter unexpectedly unlocks some well-kept secrets that may help Sarah uncover the truth about her family and finally discover who she truly is, once and for all.

                         Reviews of Rumor Has It...
By Rebecca Murray of About.com (8/0)
            This would have been a fairly fun movie had the focus been on the film's most entertaining charac...

By John Wirt of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (8/0)
            Must be among director Rob Reiner's worst movies.

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (8/0)
            Rumor Has It is a completely charming movie with terrific performances.

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
            Watching and laughing at the film, you'd never know it was such a troubled production. Here's to ...

By Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6/2)
            A dumbed-down, mixed-up romantic dramedy with all the freshness of a subpar sitcom...

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (8/0)
            ...an embarrassing romantic comedy...

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By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
            This is not a great movie, but it's very watchable and has some good laughs.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
            ...very watchable and has some good laughs.

By Allison Benedikt of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
            [An] easygoing but surprisingly likable comedy.

By Matt Pais of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
            ...as glazed and cooked as a Christmas ham.

By Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
            I suppose it sounded like a good idea at the time.

By Todd Hertz of Christianity Today (8/0)
            The movie shines when allowing the characters to just exist in their world together, without the ...

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By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
            Rob Reiner pulls the gimmick off.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
            Lacks the sparkle that we once came to expect from Reiner.

By Robert Denerstein of Denver Rocky Mountain News (8/0)
            By its final scenes, Rumor has faded into the haze of comforting mediocrity, and I could no longe...

By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (8/0)
            Rumor has it that Rob Reiner used to make really funny, often moving films. I have no doubt he w...

By Lisa Schwarzbaum of E! Online (7/1)
            ...a mess -- all high concept, stranded performances, and no laughs.

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
            Reiner seems to have lost his touch with comedy--or any genre for that matter. Though Rumor isn'...

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By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
            While there are high points here and there, in general the film moves ploddingly, with individual...

By Chris Cabin of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            Rob Reiner has done a great disservice to himself.

By Brian Orndorf of FilmJerk.com (7/1)
            True invention is crushed by Reiner's steamroller direction, and his abilities to capture whateve...

By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (8/0)
            What we've got here is a trifle that is too clever by half. That's not good.

By Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
            For a movie purportedly about the truth behind a movie, the mushy Rumor Has It... feels astoundin...

By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (8/0)
            Lacks depth.

                         Reviews of Rumor Has It...
By Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com (8/0)
            Here's a rumor for ya: this is pretty bland stuff, despite all the clever people involved and goo...

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (8/0)
            Tepid comedy [that] almost screams 'just wait for video.'

By Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
            These are shallow, vacuous people who have somewhere along the way confused narcissism with intro...

By Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (8/0)
            A pleasant little screwball comedy with some clever dialogue.

By Kevin Crust of Los Angeles Times (8/0)
            [The film is] rendered in a witless, banal environment that makes the whole thing pointless as it...

By Matt Pais of Metromix.com (8/0)
            As glazed and cooked as a Christmas ham.

                         Reviews of Rumor Has It...
By Paul Doro of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
            Rumor Has It . . . never ends up finding the right direction, in the process wasting an excellent...

By Susan Granger of Modamag.com (8/0)
            An original and outrageously funny social satire that blurs illusion with reality, it's helium-li...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
            A lopsided film that finally goes nowhere.

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (8/0)
            Profoundly half-baked and needlessly manipulative...feels as annoyingly fluffy as an oversized ma...

By John Anderson of Newsday (8/0)
            Who comes up with this stuff?

By Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
            Reiner is guilty of either mishandling his material on a grand scale or of not recognizing that t...

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By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
            So pedestrian that it almost makes one regret Rob Reiner's decision not to run for governor of Ca...

By Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly (8/0)
            An easy comedy that will please some audiences but disappoint those who seek the cinematic road l...

By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (8/0)
            Meathead has apparently forgotten how to shoot anything that isn't a medium-close-up. (These mass...

By Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (8/0)
            Unimaginatively accompanied by Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western theme, MacLaine stalks out to ...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
            If I have interpreted the message of "Rumor Has It" correctly, then its message is that it's OK t...

By Pam Grady of Reel.com (8/0)
            If Aniston really wants to break away from her TV roots, she needs to start picking better materi...

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By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (8/0)
            ...Aniston looks out of her league in this thoroughly disjointed film.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (8/0)
            The film's few high points are outweighed and outnumbered by sequences that don't work and cast c...

By Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
            Rarely does a movie come with a homework assignment. Take it from me, though: Rumor Has It is a l...

By Arthur Salm of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
            Complications ensue, but little else does.

By Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
            ...actually makes Jennifer Aniston appear unattractive for long stretches of screen time.

By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
            ...Aniston is thoroughly appealing.

                         Reviews of Rumor Has It...
By Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (8/0)
            A funny idea, alas, doesn't necessarily make for a funny movie.

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (8/0)
            A rhythm-less, laugh-less mess that mixes the big-screen Bewitched's post-modern nonsense with sh...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
            A romantic comedy that misfires thanks to a storyline that is far too complicated.

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            A bland sitcom posing as a star-studded feature film.

By Scott Nash of Three Movie Buffs (8/0)
            Rumor Has It is a lightweight comedy that only works thanks to a fantastic cast.

By Tony Medley of tonymedley.com (8/0)
            This is not a terrible movie. I've certainly seen a lot worse this year. It just could have been ...

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By Audrey Rock-Richardson of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (8/0)
            Ask yourself: is it worth it to sit through a long, horribly told story to get to a nice, simple ...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
             Not much to laugh about.

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
            The story's a stretch, but there's something intrinsically likeable about the characters in Rumor...

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (8/0)
            ...pallid and plodding...

By Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
            an entertaining film that could use a few tweaks

By A. O. Scott of New York Times (3/6) Login Required (Login Required)
            ...a movie that can't even seem to sustain interest in itself.

                         Reviews of Rumor Has It...
By Ray Greene of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
            You don't yearn for The Graduate watching this picture -- you grieve for it, mourning the lost ar...

By Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (3/5) No reference
            Com o objetivo de conferir mais dinamismo e graça à história, Rob Reiner impregna o filme com um ...

By Lisa Kennedy of Denver Post (3/5) No reference
            Nichols' satirically pungent ambitions are reduced to an epiphany about love and marriage -- and ...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
            It serves as a sad reminder about just how much Reiner's filmmaking skills have eroded in the pas...

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (7/1) No reference
            Contrived to the max and surprisingly unfunny, Rumor Has It is this year's theatrical Christmas t...

By Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (7/1) No reference
            ...edging uncomfortably into sitcom, only with a paucity of laugh lines.

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By Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (7/1) No reference
            The movie never gets enough comic traction to take off into what it apparently wants to be: a per...

By Liz Braun of Jam! Movies (3/5) No reference
            The film is rife with weird edits and odd looping, so you can guess that something bad happened i...

By James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
            turns out to be neither fish nor fowl. It's not funny or lighthearted enough to play as a romanti...

By Ella Taylor of L.A. Weekly (4/4) No reference
            [The film] entails a less-than-shattering insight about love and marriage, of interest only in th...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (4/4) No reference
            A slight movie in-joke in search of a feature-length reason to exist. It's never found.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/1) No reference
            One of the very worst ideas for a movie since they decided to try to make a horror movie about ra...

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By Michael Elliott of Movie Parables (7/1) No reference
            In order to carry a film, one must first have something to lift.

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (3/5) No reference
             When the movie isn't making you squirm in your chair, it deals out exceedingly weak jokes.

By M.E. Russell of Oregonian (4/4) No reference
            ... an intermittently funny but totally confused film that might as well be titled When Harry Met...

By Jack Garner of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (5/3) No reference
            When it came time to make this particular movie, director Rob Reiner and writer Ted Griffin got a...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (3/5) No reference
            Even if it never quite jumps out of the tried-and-true mould, the sharp cast and clever script sp...

By Phoebe Flowers of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/5) No reference
            Rumor Has It is glossy, pretty and utterly forgettable, just like -- except for that last part, e...

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By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (3/5) No reference
            It's a good thing that Jennifer Aniston is one of Hollywood's most likeable actresses because her...

By Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (4/4) No reference
            ...lightweight and easily disposable fare...

By Randy Myers of Contra Costa Times (7/1) Not Reachable
            Sad to say, Reiner continues to be in a slump, showing only glimmers of the man who made When Har...

By Connie Ogle of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
            Incest is not the sturdiest foundation on which to build a romantic comedy.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (4/4) Not Reachable
            ...an unfocused mess...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/4) Not Reachable
            The result is a wayward movie, sort of like a trip to Florida from New York via Cairo, Ill. -- th...

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By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/1) Not Reachable
            Rumor has it that this movie is really, really good, but that's only half true.

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