Jennifer Garner Movie:

		List Price: $38.96		Label: Columbia Pictures Salesrank: 27835 Released: May 8, 2007
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

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Sony Pictures Catch And Release (Blu-Ray)
Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancee, Gray (Jennifer Garner) moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam (Kevin Smith) andDennis (Sam Jaeger) do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) doesn't seem to care. Once Gray breaks through Fritz's defenses, however, she finally sees why her fiancee thought so highly of him. As they spend more time together, Gray learns that her chances for love have not died outwith her fiancee. But when some surprise guests show up on their doorstep, it'll take the love of all of her new friends to help Gray learn that lifemay be messy, but love is messier.

Description of Catch and Release [Blu-ray]:
Jennifer Garner's lips grow more Angelina-esque every year. In the romantic comedy Catch and Release, Garner (Alias, 13 Going On 30) plays Gray Wheeler, a young woman whose fiance dies unexpectedly before the wedding, leaving Gray unable to afford her home--so she moves in with her fiance's best friends, Sam (Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and Dogma) and Dennis (Sam Jaeger, Lucky Number Slevin). But the presence of another old friend named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood) leads to the unveiling of a secret: Gray's fiance had a child with another woman. Catch and Release lacks the clear story structure that most romantic comedies are built on, but trades it for a richer sense of the ambiguities of human relationships. Garner, though lovely and personable, is a bit bland--fortunately, she's surrounded by actors with all kinds of edges, including Smith (who shows an unexpected and uncloying earnest side), Fiona Shaw (from the Harry Potter movies) as the fiance's grieving mother, and Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), who demonstrates once again her powers as a fearless and surprising actress. Catch and Release is an uneven movie, with a remarkably elegant visual style that sometimes clashes with the workmanlike dialogue, but it can't be written off as the same old Hollywood claptrap. Though a happy ending is inevitable, the path it takes has some surprising turns and flashes of unexpected emotional depth.- Bret Fetzer

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Catch and Release [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Bad flick.
2008-07-21 - As much as I liked Jennifer Garner in Alias, she couldn't save this movie. Boring, slow-moving plot. Unlikeable characters. Bad dialog. Don't waste your money.

Great movie.
2008-06-07 - Wow this movie has some mixed reviews. I really like this movie and I dont know why. The plot is kind of messed up since the fiance has a girlfriend. So from that side of it I guess its not a good movie but it really has some great funny parts and since it has jen and the love of my life juliette its a great movie.lol. :)

Heartwarming and realistic with a happily ever after ending
2008-06-04 - Catch and Release

First, don't expect the title to have anything at all to do with the movie. It's mentioned once in the entire film and not much of a connection. Second, it has a HEA (happily ever after).

Grady is killed in some freak accident and his fiancé Gray (Jennifer Garner) ends up finding out many of his secrets after his death. First, it turns out he has over a million dollars in a trust fund that he never mentioned. Second, it turns out he has a lover and son in another state. And he's actually been sleeping with this lover and conceived the son DURING the time he was with Gray (Jennifer Garner). Gray ends up moving into Grady's place that he shared with his friends Sam and Dennis because now that he's dead, she can't afford the house they were going to live in together. Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), an old friend of Grady's from California, stays for a few weeks too.

The scenery is breathtaking. It takes place in Boulder Creek, Colorado. The relationships that evolve through the movie are interesting, heartwrenching, and heartwarming. SPOILER ALERT---Dennis falls for Gray, Gray falls for Fritz, and Sam falls for the mother of Grady's son, Maureen (Juliette Lewis). And, as it turns out, the boy is NOT Grady's. But for some reason, Grady paid Maureen money every month because he wanted the kid to have a better life. By the end of the movie, you really like most of the characters, even Grady (who lied a LOT). And after Gray makes a verbal blunder and Fritz goes running home, she chases after him all the way to Encino, California. Where Fritz gets the best line of the entire movie, "What took you so long?"


Good bits, bad bits
2008-05-29 - I don't think this movie deserves the very good or very bad reviews.

I think it lacks a polished ending, some of the characters are not very well filled out (where are Gray's parents? Girl-friends?) & editing is what has killed this movie. Several scenes that possibly wound up on the cutting room floor (the original director's cut was over 3 hours) might have been better in the movie, and vice versa.

I don't think the central romantic relationship is that unbelievable. Attraction is a strange thing. I also think people who say Gray wouldn't have gone for Fritz perhaps miss the point that ours AND Gray's first impression of him is supposed to be proven to be incorrect. Perhaps a couple of scenes to help us warm to him might have helped?

All in all I don't think this was a disatrous movie but sadly I think it could have been so much better as the central premise is an interesting one and it had a good cast.

Falls Flat
2008-05-29 - I barely made it through this movie. The story contained an endless string of awkward moments with nothing uplifting in between. Well, it tried to be uplifting in places, but fell flat. There was no drama and no successful comedy. The actors gave monotone performances and none of the characters were particularly likeable, especially Jennifer Garner's character. In my humble opinion, watching this movie was, frankly, a waste of time.