Although Fry points out that " the story of a sensitive young weed struggling to grow up in the robust thicket of an English public school " was " done to death, in the earlier part of this century in novels, memoirs and autobiographies, " his own account of his schoolboy travails is so engaging, so idiosyncratic, so larky, as he might say, that the reader never for a moment feels a sense of deja vu.
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Stephen Holden of " The New York Times " gave the film a positive review, calling the film " the year s most entertaining put-on . " Holden described it as a film that " rambles entertainingly from topic to topic . [ . . . ] There is hardly a dull moment . " Hank Stuever of " The Washington Post " called the film " a fun, larky travel essay and commentary on the film biz, an exquisite wallow in the most rarefied sort of first-world problems . " Conversely, David Hinkley of " New York Daily News " gave the film a negative review, stating, " In a perfect world, " Seduced and Abandoned " might have told us why it's so hard for grownups to find anything they want to see at the movies these days . Alas, while it flirts with that question and answer, in the end it plays a little too much like a home movie for the film industry ."
