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Release Date: July 29th, 2005

Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.

U.S. Box Office: $43,894,863

Rating: PG-13 for for sexual content.

Director: Gary David Goldberg

Starring: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney

Critics Reviews: 5 out of 10

Reelviews Must Love Dogs is a product - a pre-packaged, easily-digestible motion picture designed with one particular audience in mind. You know the kind of film. You have seen it before, usually with names like Nancy Myers or Nora & Delia Ephron involved. Those with ovaries have a better chance of appreciating Must Love Dogs than those with testicles. James Berardinelli

The Boston Globe The movie is harmless and crowd-pleasing, and sometimes uproariously accurate about the debilitating self-consciousness of being newly single. But while Lane is her typical winning self, the film is mawkish. The more we're cajoled to root for Sarah Nolan, the divorced preschool teacher she plays, the more ''Must Love Dogs" stops resembling a movie and starts feeling like a greeting card. Wesley Morris

San Francisco Chronicle Even for those who think there are worse ways to spend 100 minutes than to look at Diane Lane, "Must Love Dogs" pushes it. This is a lackluster romantic comedy that feints in a couple of novel directions but mainly conforms to type: the cute meeting, the courtship, the obligatory misunderstanding, the obligatory aimlessness (usually a montage), followed by some ending, one way or the other. Mick LaSalle

The Movie Boy "Must Love Dogs" is sometimes funny, and on occasion kind of effective in its quieter character moments, but the romance between Sarah and Jake—indeed, the only reason for the picture's existence—falls flat. Dustin Putman

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Must Love Dogs Official site for the romantic comedy starring Diane Lane and John Cusack.