Reception
On its opening weekend, it earned $9,430,667 on 2,670 screens, ranking #3 behind Changing Lanes and Panic Room. It eventually grossed $68,696,770 worldwide.
The Sweetest Thing received negative reviews from critics. The film currently has a 26% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 107 reviews with the consensus: "A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot". At Metacritic, the film has an average score of 32 out of 100, based on 30 Critics. It was among Ebert & Roeper's "Worst of 2002", in the category "Big Stars in Big Bombs".
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)