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Wimbledon

Release Date: 
09/17/2004
MPAA Rating: 
MPAA: PG-13
Star Rating: 
If you like tennis, you'll definitely like Wimbledon the tennis tournament. But you'll need to love tennis, chick flicks, and covering your eyes and ears to like Wimbledon the tennis movie. Feisty American Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) is the top pick in everybody's bracket this year at Wimbledon, while Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) sneaks in with a wild card. But as happens in movies like this, and absolutely nowhere else, the mismatched duo fall for each other during Colt's inspired run to the finals, and we get to come along from love-love to break point. (What? Get in the spirit, people; it's Wimbledon!) We're the first to admit that seeing Dunst prancing around in a tennis skirt is enough to inspire any man to great heights, but every other stroke in this double fault is downright painful to sit through. The second half crowds the climactic final match with pronouncements of love, family reunions, and a John McEnroe cameo that makes his CNBC show look like Late Night With Conan O'Brien. The only reason to check out center court would be to see the hottest blonde in a tennis skirt since Anna Kournikova. (And even then, you can just click here or here instead.)