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After Words

Everyone deserves a love story

2015 · 1h 31m · N/A Drama
Directed by Juan Feldman

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Faced with a midlife crisis, a woman travels to Costa Rica and meets a younger man who shows her adventure and romance.

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38%
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Rotten

Harden's role in this groan-worthy dramedy is so dreary and ill-conceived that even her formidable talents can't bring it to life.

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

A romance novel of a movie featuring the world's most stereotypical librarian.

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
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Pat and silly, the movie offers a wheezy moral that a buttoned-up American just needs a sensitive Latino and some ethnic cuisine to end the blues.

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
Rotten

Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do - up to a point. But there's only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, "Summertime"-lite affair.

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
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Costa Rica is a beautiful place to film, and a woman's journey into wholeness can make for a fine story. But Feldman, having established all his stereotypes, refuses to push them beyond the motions you know they have to go through ...

Meave Gallagher, Village Voice

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