Rotten
The leading man often seems more like a brooding menace in this handsomely produced but painfully slow faith-based romantic drama.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Old Fashioned
Chivalry makes a comeback.
2014 · 1h 55m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Rik Swartzwelder
Overview
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and romance. When Amber Hewson, a free-spirited young woman with a restless soul, drifts into the area and rents the apartment above his shop, she finds herself surprisingly drawn to his noble ideas, which are new and intriguing to her. And Clay, though he tries to fight and deny it, simply cannot resist being attracted to her spontaneous and passionate embrace of life. Ultimately, Clay must step out from behind his relational theories, and Amber must overcome her own fears and deep wounds, as the two of them, together, attempt the impossible: an “old-fashioned” courtship in contemporary America.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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20%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Disturbing is the film's apparent conviction that the surefire way to a woman's heart involves lots of candles and a mani-pedi, the sort of notion that isn't so much cute and old-fashioned as it is acutely offensive.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
It must be pretty neat to make a movie that mostly consists of people telling you how chivalrous and morally right you are and how much everybody loves you, but that's no excuse for making it this boring.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
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