The Swearing Jar

It is not terribly bad, (honest), but it IS terribly bland and overly sentimental. It's the Hallmark kind of movie genre, with lots (and LOTS) of sugarcoated, cringeworthy sentimental lovey dovey scenes with guitar playing and hair stroking and being insecure if the other one loves your or not. Oh gosh!

In the end my wife wasnt thrilled by it either and I frankly was glad it was over. Because there is only so much sentimental stuff I can stumach in 1 year and after having seen this movie I have reached my limit of intake of sentimental lovey dovey stuff.

I do like other romantic movies, PROVIDED they have got some spark and punch, PROVIDED they are funny. OR when they are not funny, PROVIDED they have genuine drama.

This movie has none of the positives from above. What is it then? It's firstmost completely BLAND and DULL.

Only recommended for the Hallmark movie fans...

The Swearing Jar is a touching & intimate love story that draws you into the characters' lives so that you feel their pleasure & pain right along side them. A clever, non-linear plot that is even better when seen for the second time around due to nuances in the filming that support the narrative twist. (...That's all I can say about that!) The music plays a central role in the story telling. The songs are raw, hauntingly beautiful & sung by these two incredibly talented actors. A great film that leaves you pondering it long after the film is over. My advice, don't forget to bring your tissues!

Someone else reviewed this film and likened it to a Hallmark movie. I can only surmise they have never seen a Hallmark movie because there is no similarity whatsoever.

It's a beautifully crafted set of snapshots of all the places we go as people during our relationships. It shows us our strengths and our weaknesses, it shows that life has one course to lead but many adventures along the way and we have to embrace everything we can and let go of all that we can too.

Clemens is beautiful in this film, she truly is the epitome of Carey: of all women living Carey's life. She reminds me of a young Michelle Williams. Raw, but cleverly raw.

The direction and dialogue is superb, and I watched it all in one go which is rare for me. If you sometimes wonder about life and love and death and loss, watch this.

This was , a film about love and relationship, swearing and promising, secrets and decieft, loss and pain, periodplanning and having a baby, a film about life and death, hormonal imbalance and deadly disease, and not to forget the importance of having a family, however bad it is.

A small casted but ever so filled with beautifulness, faces that i wont easy forget, especially ms.clemmens, cause she really reminded me about someone that i used to know.

Its a film about how priceless life is when youre in the turmoil of living it, and testifyes how shortlived life is. So grab your dear ones by the hand and live out your desires, because therell be a day when it all ends, very abrubt and senseless...

a well interpreted script from a novel that isnt to well known internationally, nevertheless they cant rip away the fact that this is a production that contains near perfect harmony, the cast is merely perfect for the caracters, and the musical score and vocal talents of ms. Clemmens is just unbelievable...

i might sound like a baptized grumpy old man that usually hates romcoms, but when it comes with twists and turns that are so earthshakingly shocking as in this feature movie there are no other way round than ...SEE THIS... i will for sure bring my wife in for a 2nd look, have allready bougt a kolli of kleenex, cause, yeah , its that kind of movie. Simply perfect and dug deep in m,y sole.

The Swearing Jar is a new musical romantic drama directed by Lindsay MacKay. After Wet Bum, this is only the second film she has directed.

Carey (Adelaide Clemens) is a young musician and is in a relationship with Simon (Patrick J. Adams). Their relationship isn't perfect, because sometimes they love each other very much, other times they also hate each other incredibly. Yet they are expecting a child together.

When they can't see each other for a while, Carey bumps into another man with whom she also seems to have good chemistry. This leaves Carey with a difficult choice.

The story of this film was written by Kate Hewlett, who further based it on her own play. Together with the director, she ensures that the film remains faithful to this play. The story only remains on a predictable side and for a romantic drama the film offers little else.

What the film manages to carry is more the beautiful singing work of the cast members, who have a good chemistry with each other, but otherwise it remains a standard romantic drama. For example, after the singing and their good mutual chemistry, the cast members also seem a bit standard when the romance and songs retreat a bit.