Down to You

2000 Comedy

This Big Apple-based romantic comedy charts the tumultuous relationship between liberal arts student and budding chef Al (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and his first girlfriend, Imogen (Julia Stiles), a self-possessed freshman who wants to become an artist. After meeting in a bar, the pair jump into a giddy, passionate affair that's grown-up enough to include face time between the young lovers and Al's DJ mom and TV-chef dad (Henry Winkler). After a summer abroad, however, Imogen feels like the relationship is robbing her of her youth, and the couple must struggle with romantic and domestic growing pains. Meanwhile, their wacky friends -- who include porn stars (Selma Blair and Zak Orth), stoners (Rosario Dawson), a mullet-haired lunkhead (Shawn Hatosy), and a Jim Morrison look-alike named Jim Morrison (Ashton Kutcher) -- provide laughs, advice, and sexual temptation. The debut film from writer/director Kris Isacsson, the teen-themed Down to You marked a change of pace for normally grown-up Miramax Films. In addition to a slew of recent rock and pop, the film prominently features music from such downtown New York fixtures of the past decade as Deee-Lite ("Groove is in the Heart") and Cibo Matto ("Moonchild"). more..

Director: Kris Isacsson

Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair,Henry Winkler

Reviews

  • A pleasant addition to the time-honored genre of terminally cute youth romance movies, roughly equivalent to staring at a saccharine greeting card for a while.

    Peter Stack - The San Francisco Chronicle

    19 January 2013

  • Ostensibly a story about first love in college, and I never believed a frame of it.

    John Petrakis - The Chicago Tribune

    19 January 2013

  • Prinze charming, but can't save movie.

    - The Boston Globe

    19 January 2013

  • The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.

    Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times

    19 January 2013

  • Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.

    Dana Stevens - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Film - Choice Actor

    Teen Choice Awards (2000)