Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
3.3 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 29min
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- Synopsis:
Award-winning writer-director-actor Edward Burns with 'Nice Guy Johnny', his most romantic comedy in years. Johnny (Matt Bush) is engaged to a girl who demands he drop his dream gig as a sports radio deejay and work for her dad in the cardboard box industry. But the bed-hopping, fun-loving Uncle Terry (Burns) has different plans and soon whisks away Johnny to the Hamptons for a lost weekend where his nephew can find some fun. Beautiful tennis pro Brooke (Kerry Bishe, giving what the Hollywood Reporter calls a winning performance ) soon tempts Johnny to serve up a little pleasure and figure out exactly what being a nice guy really means. Nice Guy Johnny shows Burns delivering another gem in the tradition of his heroes Woody Allen and Francois Truffaut. - Actors:
- Max Baker, Kerry Bishé, Edward Burns, Matt Bush, Brian Delate, Marsha Dietlein, Harper Dill, Michele Harris, Sarah Jo Marson, Jay Patterson, Vanessa Ray, Callie Thorne, Anna Wood
- Directors:
- Edward Burns
- Writers:
- Edward Burns
- Genres:
- Comedy, Romance
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Nice Guy Johnny review by Alyse Garner - Cinema Paradiso
Johnny finds himself choosing to leave his dream job in Talk Radio to up-sticks and move with his fiancée to a small town and a boring job that will pay enough to satisfy her. However a trip to New York for a job interview causes Johnny to reconsider his priorities.
Co-starring director Edward Burns Nice Guy Johnny is like many a rom-com-indie-drama. There is a great deal of off the wall conversation and very little happens in it’s 92 minute runtime, but it still manages to be one of those pleasantly enjoyable movies that creates a handful of fun characters and attempts, in it’s own way, to shake up the norms of Hollywood cinema.
Unfortunately Nice Guy Johnny does little more than attempt all these things, it makes a vague nod toward comedy but never actually makes you laugh, tries to push for interesting romantic leads but serves up rather bland and unimaginative stereotypes and turns potentially quick witted and sparky dialogue into dull obvious prose.
Those who recognize Burns will know him for his directorial popularity in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Yet more recently his movies have lost their edge, becoming little more than watered down staples of the genre. Nice Guy Johnny isn’t bad, in fact there’s not really anything about the movie I didn’t like; it was exactly what I knew it would be and nothing more.