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The Thing Called Love

In a story about the world of success and fame, the film traces four individual generation-X songs, with ambitious people trying to break into the rural music industry in Nashville. In Nashville, there are 10,000 singers and songwriters chasing success everywhere, and this may hold everyone one chance to reach one million people and get a new fame and an ideal world
Keywords:  #Dermot Mulroney #Peter Bogdanovich #River Phoenix #Samantha Mathis #The Thing Called Love
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New York Times
August 30, 2004
Although well acted, with early scenes that deftly sketch the atmosphere, the movie, written by Carol Heikkinen, never takes off.
Filmcritic.com
January 12, 2006
It's so sad that Phoenix went out not with a bang but with this whimper.
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TV Guide
June 14, 2009
Peter Bogdanovich brings conviction but little else to this upbeat response to Robert Altman's Nashville.
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Time Out
February 09, 2006
Bogdanovich's modest staging is occasionally awkward -- his kids still watch John Wayne movies at the drive-in -- but there's a convincing sense of what Nashville's like and how country music works.
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Slant Magazine
March 11, 2006
The Thing Called Love charms and touches.
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Common Sense Media
January 02, 2011
A star is born in Nashville.
Combustible Celluloid
April 06, 2006
Nothing terribly new happens here, but Bogdanovich plays out his scenes with tenderness and affection, and the honest performances spring to life.
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Chicago Reader
June 23, 2002
It bears as little relation to the real Nashville as Altman's 1975 feature, but director Peter Bogdanovich, the talented cast, and the credited and uncredited screenwriters are so busy conjuring up a charming world of their own that I didn't mind.
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Chicago Sun-Times
January 01, 2000
Perhaps no one could have saved Phoenix, who was not lucky enough to find a higher bottom than death. But this performance in this movie should have been seen by someone as a cry for help.
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Moviehole
March 11, 2005
A highlight of Phoenix's career
EricDSnider.com
April 08, 2006
It's good enough to watch, but not good enough to re-watch.
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Variety
March 26, 2009
Perhaps there's not much new to say about the dues and disappointments involved in breaking into the country music scene, but the scenes are fresh and the emotions real in Peter Bogdanovich's tune-laden, mixed-mood drama.
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