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Widowed English teacher Mary Ann Simpson moves to Rio de Janeiro, where she meets a number of similarly confused people and finds unexpected romance with Pedro Paulo, a suave and divorced lawyer.
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Comedy and Romance |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 35 min. |
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| Release Date: |
April 28, 2000 LA/NY |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for language and some sexual content. |
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| Distributors: |
Sony Pictures Classics
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$1,816,792 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
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culturevulture.net,
"'Bossa Nova' is structured like those Doris Day farces where a series of romantic misunderstandings climax with all of the cast members piling into different cars and racing to the airport, but here the screw-ups are droll technological and linguistic mishaps that reflect the characters’ emotional missteps." Full Review...
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Flick Filosopher,
"The lovesick round-robin -- Joe loves Mary, Mary loves Bill, and Bill loves someone else -- is a fairly standard plot for romantic comedies, but it feels freshly deployed in director Bruno Barreto's light and airy 'Bossa Nova.'" Full Review...
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PopMatters: Blame it on Bossa Nova,
"The film itself recognizes the futility of its own nostalgia, and recognizes that things can never go back to 'the way they were,' if they ever were that way to begin with." Full Review...
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Village Voice: Bedded and Bored,
"Brazilian director Bruno Barreto calls his 14th film a gift to his wife and leading lady, Amy Irving, and if 'Bossa Nova' avoids tripping a single booby trap of the cinematic-valentine variety, it's in making Irving's character—ostensibly the magnetic pole for Barreto's ensemble of limpwit dating misfits—so wan and humor-challenged." Full Review...
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