All Over the Guy

"4 friends, 2 couples. Twice as much to lie about in the morning."

2001 1h 35m EN

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5.8

MID

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43%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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6.4

IMDB

★5.8TMDB · 80🥫43%Rotten Tomatoes●46Metacritic★6.4IMDB · 5,066

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Synopsis

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A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.

“4 friends, 2 couples. Twice as much to lie about in the morning.”

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Cast

Dan Bucatinsky
Eli Wyckoff
Richard Ruccolo
Tom
Doris Roberts
Esther
Sasha Alexander
Jackie Samantha Gold
Adam Goldberg
Brett Miles Sanford
Christina Ricci
Rayna Wyckoff
Andrea Martin
Dr. Ellen Wyckoff
Joanna Kerns
Lydia

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Julie Davis
Writers: Dan Bucatinsky
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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25 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Julie Davis, shot by Goran Pavicevic. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Peter Stuart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Dan Bucatinsky and Richard Ruccolo and Doris Roberts carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "4 friends, 2 couples. Twice as much to lie about in the morning.".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0250202 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 80 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Julie Davis directs. Goran Pavicevic behind the camera. Peter Stuart scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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125 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by Julie Davis, shot by Goran Pavicevic. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Peter Stuart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Dan Bucatinsky and Richard Ruccolo and Doris Roberts carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "4 friends, 2 couples. Twice as much to lie about in the morning.".
7IMDB entry: tt0250202 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 80 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Goran Pavicevic
Original score: Peter Stuart
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $1,051,948
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: All Over the Guy (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 46/100
IMDB rating: 6.4/10 · 5,066 votes
MPAA: R

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CinemaSerf2025-03-28
★ 5/10
I think you have to suspend quite a bit of reality to get anything from this rather contrived story, but there are some quite familiar faces peppering the scenes as we tell, retrospectively via two conversations, of the erratic courtship of “Eli” (writer Dan Bucatinsky) and the alcoholic hunk “Tom” (Richard Ruccolo). They are brought together by the recently hooked up “Jackie” (Sasha Alexander) and “Brent” (Adam Goldberg) but it isn’t the most auspicious of starts. Indeed, after their first date you’d have got better odds on the Danube really being blue. Circumstance and their friends don’t give up easily, though, and gradually the pair begin to get to know each other and take each other, and us, on a dirty washing exercise as we learn of their childhoods and the sources of the chips on various shoulders that they have accumulated over the years. So far, it’s all entirely procedural with dramatically created troughs so we can have the peaks, but for me the thing falls flat fairly early. Sure, there is a magnetism here and both of these actors deliver competently enough, but their romance is borderline toxic at times and I think any sane person would just have chalked it up to experience and moved on right from the get-go. Serendipity is just too involved as each episode in their relationship becomes less plausible yet more cementing of a conclusion that you just know is bound to happen. The film has a custom-made, manufactured, look to the whole thing and after a while I lost interest in whether they did or didn’t and would rather have followed the sub-plot with their newly loved-up and squabbling pals. At least the production is decent enough, but this is still quite disappointing as it uses stereotypes to poke fun at, well, stereotypes.

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