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On the Line (2001)

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Directed by Eric Bross.

Starring Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, James Bulliard.

Two of the members of popular boy band 'N Sync make their feature acting debuts with this light romantic comedy. Lance Bass stars as shy Kevin Gibbons, an advertising executive in Chicago who's notoriously maladroit at dealing with the opposite sex. After a chance encounter with his dream girl (Emmanuelle Chriqui) aboard the El train, Kevin forgets to ask for her name and phone number and plasters the Windy City with posters seeking his lost love connection. Kevin's quest to find the mystery girl soon attracts the attention of a newspaper reporter and he becomes a media darling, while his roommates Rod (Joey Fatone), Randy (James Bulliard), and Eric (Gregory Qaiyum) take full advantage of the amorous response by Chicago's female population to their friend's heartbroken search. On the Line (2001) co-stars Dave Foley and Jerry Stiller, along with singer Al Green as himself. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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Lance Bass Ruined Me to the Chicks
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"Okay, it was Emanuelle Chriqui who ruined me ... but Who the heck is Emanuelle Chriqui?(I believe I am giving Emanuelle Chriqui more press now than Emanuelle Chriqui's seen in the past decade!... Of course, I might've said Emanuelle Chriqui enough for any search engines' spiders to automatically write me off as an 'Emanuelle Chriqui'-head; so I suppose I should shut up about Emanuelle Chriqui ...)Above you see the reasoning behind putting big-names in a film with such a plain title as On the Line; because--if you don't have a title like BATMAN or Snakes on a Plane--it's 'headliner-stars' that sell films to popcorn-houses---stars like Jerry Stiller, Dave Foley, Al Green, Joey Fatone and ... yes-yes ... Lance Bass.Despite the "deep" title (i.e. the title that 'won't tell the story unless you've seen the movie,' unlike the titles STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back, almost all of the BATMANs etc.), the writers hit on a compe ... " [More]

Worst of 2001
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"Did you hear about the blond couple who froze to death at the drive-in? They went to see Closed for Winter. What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? "Dam." The above jokes -- which make me laugh every time -- are an appropriate introduction to the year's worst cinematic disasters for the following reasons: (1) The first is my favorite movie-related joke, (2) both indicate that I'm easily amused, and (3) the punch line of the second has typically been my reaction when I learn of the films I've been assigned to review. It's been a dismal year at the movies, from disappointing summer fare (how do you make Pearl Harbor boring?) to so-so independents and foreign films that have been successful simply because people are tired of feeling so bad (Amelie? Cute, but about 20 minutes too long). Then there are the no-name, no-plot groaners that I get stuck with, this year's unusually high number of which is attributable to either frantic green-lighting during ... " [More]

On the Line
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"Plenty of male pop stars suffer from Mick Jagger syndrome: If not for their musical talent and cool-as-hell stage presence, there's no way they'd be getting girls. So the young fans of 'N Sync might want to avoid seeing On the Line, which strips Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of their studio overdubs, glittery costumes, and synchronized dance moves and thrusts them naked into everyday life. Ladies, it ain't pretty. Bass plays Kevin, an improbable ad exec whose biggest fault is his inability to seal the deal when it comes to love. One day, a cute stranger (Emmanuelle Chriqui) strikes up a conversation with him on the train; they hit it off, and he lets her walk away. The rest of the movie deals with his citywide campaign to find her--can you say Serendipity?--which all of Chicago soon becomes involved in as a local paper tracks Kevin's progress. His sidekicks include Fatone as Rod, the puffy, flatulent, untalented frontman of the band he and Kevin started in high sch ... " [More]

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