On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 77% "fresh" rating, based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. Its opening weekend gross was $131,678 ($43,892 per screen). The film was released in North America on Decemon three screens. The songs, film score, and subsequent album were recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Dick Hyman and Roy Yokelson. Marx's theme song from Animal Crackers (1930) " Hooray for Captain Spaulding" is featured, sung in French by a chorus of Groucho Marxes. The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and was used as a recurring theme song in the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers (1932). Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Allen that her singing was too awful even for the "realistic singing voice" concept he was going for. "Everyone Says I Love You" (Kalmar, Ruby) - The Helen Miles Singers."I'm Through with Love" (Kahn, Malneck, Livingston) - Goldie Hawn/Edward Norton." Hooray for Captain Spaulding/Vive Le Capitaine Spaulding" ( Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Philippe Videcoq) - The Helen Miles Singers." Chiquita Banana" (Leonard McKenzie, Garth Montgomery, William Wirges) - Christy Carlson Romano. " Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" ( Carl Sigman, Herb Magidson) - Patrick Crenshaw."Recurrence/ If I Had You" ( Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly) - Dick Hyman/Tim Roth."Looking at You" ( Cole Porter) - Alan Alda." Cuddle Up a Little Closer" (Karl Hoschna, Otto Harbach) - Billy Crudup/Sanjeev Ramabhadran." Just You, Just Me" (Salsa Version) (Greer, Klages) - Dick Hyman and the New York Studio Players."All My Life" ( Sam Stept, Sidney Mitchell) - Julia Roberts."Venetian Scenes/I'm Through With Love" (Kahn, Matt Malneck, Fud Livingston) - Dick Hyman/Woody Allen." Makin' Whoopee" (Donaldson, Kahn) - Tim Jerome."Recurrence/ I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All" ( Ray Henderson, Lew Brown, B.G." My Baby Just Cares For Me" ( Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - Edward Norton/Natasha Lyonne." Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) - Edward Norton.The film uses classic songs for each scenes and in some cases with unexpected dance routines. Singers: Helen Miles, Arlene Martell, Emily Bindiger, Cindy Cobitt, Al Dana, Kevin DeSimone, Paul Evans, Chrissy Faith, Jeff Lyons, Michael Mark, Jenna Miles, Robert Ragaini, Lenny Roberts, Annette Sanders, Terry Textor, Vaneese Thomas and Ashley H.Christy Carlson Romano as a Trick or Treat Child.Edward Hibbert as a Harry Winston Salesman.Drew Barrymore as Skylar Dandridge (singing voice dubbed by Olivia Hayman).They include young lovers Holden and Skylar, Skylar's parents Bob and Steffi, Steffi's ex-husband Joe, Joe and Steffi's daughter Djuna, Von, a lady whom Joe meets, and a recently released prison inmate, Charles Ferry, who is inserted between them, leading to their breakup. Various characters act, interact and sing in each cities. The emotions of an extended upper-class family in Manhattan are followed in songs at New York, Paris and Venice. The film was a commercial failure, but is among the more critically successful of Allen's films, with Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert even ranking it as one of Allen's best. Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, it features singing by actors unusually known for musical roles. It stars Allen, Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth, Natasha Lyonne, and Natalie Portman. Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American musical film written and directed by Woody Allen.
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