A single Chinese-American toy designer in Hong Kong on business (Jamie Chung) and a spoken-for expat investment banker (Bryan Greenberg) meet cute and take us on a romantic 20-minute walking (and talking) tour of Hong Kong. His reluctance to cop to having a GF puts an end to the night, …
Through a booking mix-up, two “inseparable” girlfriends are locked into simultaneous June weddings at the Plaza Hotel, whereupon they take leave of their senses in their efforts to sabotage one another. A deviously insulting chick flick. Anne Hathaway, although she looks like she’s in training for a concentration-camp film, doesn’t …
Jaunty dark comedy, vacillating between the chaotic and the sloppy, to do with family dysfunction, college chemistry, anthropology, anthropophagy, adultery, kidnapping, revenge. Writer-director Randall Miller, tripping over big words, lacks the ear for academia, to say nothing of the eye for cinema. His cast carries over key members of his …
Pandering teen caper film in which a motley crew of high-school seniors (pothead, jock, poor little rich girl, etc.) conspire for motley reasons to steal the answers to the SAT. ("Suck-Ass Test -- that's what that stands for," elucidates the annoyingly loud narrator.) A dab of nostalgia: Mike Jarvis, the …
An older-woman-younger-man affair, stickier than normal because the older woman's therapist happens also to be the younger man's mother. The therapist/mother, a bespectacled, beanbaggy Meryl Streep, is the only one of the three who sees the whole picture, who knows that her twenty-three-year-old son, Bryan Greenberg, has become romantically involved …