Metacritic reviews

By keeping the tone light, the players human (Steve Coogan has a nice turn as a greasy casino host), and never, ever romanticizing the addict, Finding Amanda comes by its heartbreak honestly.

It's amusing but facile, reasonably clever but hopelessly glib.

Broderick has the film's most clever lines, but Snow is quite funny and is convincing as an innocent lured by the promise of easy money.

Broderick is splendid as the gambler. He knows, as many addicts do, that the addictive personality is very inward, however much acting out might take place.

Much of Finding Amanda doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at its best the still-boyish Broderick suggests his most famous character, Ferris Bueller, going through a midlife crisis.

Although it avoids overt moralizing or clunky lesson-learning, pic's careful balancing act between tragedy and comedy eventually becomes its sole raison d'etre.

A slight, modestly funny comedy.

Finding Amanda is a minor movie for Broderick, but considering where it takes him, it's understandable why he took the role.

This debut picture never makes up its mind about what sort of comedy it wants to be. But at least it has one--a mind, that is.

Even the easygoing Broderick can't inject any lift or charm into the story.