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The Lovers

Play trailer Poster for The Lovers R,  2015,  1h 45m,  Action/ Adventure/ Romance/ Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 8% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 19% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
8% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 19% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
An impossible love blooms across two time periods and continents.

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David Ehrlich Time Out Mar 17, 2015
1/5
As one of the film's many forgettable characters so eloquently puts it, "This stinks worse than an oyster's fart." Go to Full Review
Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2015
There's a veil of artifice clinging to every aspect of "The Lovers," a thoroughly unconvincing time-traveling epic costume drama pairing a miscast Josh Hartnett and Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu. Go to Full Review
Graham Fuller New York Daily News Mar 12, 2015
3/5
Suckers for romance likely won't complain, but this Josh Hartnett time-travel epic is nuts. Go to Full Review
Emine Yildirim Today's Zaman (Turkey) Feb 29, 2016
If you're aching to see a tragic tearjerker romance, then the only tears you will shed will be of frustration. Go to Full Review
Dan Mecca The Film Stage Feb 23, 2016
C
A slew of half-baked characters and a derivative, white-man-in-a-foreign-land plot line make it hard to recommend, despite a handful of inspired moments. Go to Full Review
Shawn Hazelett Under the Radar Mar 28, 2015
2.5/10
Joffe seems well aware that this is a story not worth telling ... the filmmaking is so hopelessly uninspired that Hartnett's Scottish accent is somehow not its most glaring flaw. Go to Full Review
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Ron S Feb 11, 2017 Just watched this on Netflix and it was very pretty but boring and unbelievable.
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Cast & Crew

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Roland Joffé

Director

Josh Hartnett

James Stewart

Alice Englert

Dolly

Tamsin Egerton

Laura Fennel

Om Puri

Actor

Claire van der Boom

Actor

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The Lovers

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Movie Info

Synopsis An impossible love blooms across two time periods and continents.
Director
Roland Joffé
Producer
Dale G. Bradley, Grant Bradley, Paul Breuls, Pam Collis
Screenwriter
Ajey Jhankar, Roland Joffé
Production Co
Corsan, Limelight International Media Entertainment
Rating
R (Language|Some Violence)
Genre
Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 7, 2017
Runtime
1h 45m
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