The original Father of the Bride -- meaning the 1950 one, not the 1991 one -- had a better name for its sequel, Father's Little Dividend. But dividend has three syllables in it, and its definition doesn't denote sequel, so.... Besides which, Part II isn't a literal remake of the …
Writer and director Nancy Meyers arranges an Internet home exchange, for two weeks at Christmastime, between two wounded women desperate to get away: a London newspaper columnist (Kate Winslet) with a cozy cottage in Surrey, and a Hollywood trailer-cutter (Cameron Diaz) with a modernist mansion in Beverly Hills. The agreed-upon …
Star vehicle. More precisely, a bicycle built for two, and pedaled across two types of terrain, George Cukor's and Alfred Hitchcock's. To put it as dauntingly as possible: Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts, in the roles of rival reporters on a train-wreck story, are required to be Tracy and Hepburn …
“God, I wish your expressions weren’t so transparent.” It’s a line our internet fashion house founder (Anne Hathaway) uses, though it’s not clear whether it’s in reference to the 70-year-old newbie assigned to be her intern (Robert De Niro) or the seasoned actor who plays him. The solid premise – …
Echoes of Best Friends: a husband-and-wife scriptwriting team writing a script about a husband-and-wife scriptwriting team. And here as there, the result contains plenty of "insider" stuff for the movie buff: the hero's graduate thesis, for instance, is called "A Semiological Analysis of Sexual Overtones in the Early Films of …
Romantic-comic triangle composed of a fifty-something divorcee, her remarried but re-interested ex-husband, and her too-good-to-be-true divorced architect: “Your age is one of my favorite things about you.” The grown children have no problems of their own, and the level of affluence — not to forget level of gourmet cuisine — …
Because the memory of the 1961 version starring Hayley Mills had already been sullied with three made-for-television sequels, we cannot very well pretend that the memory of it has now been sullied by Nancy Meyers's remake. The memory of the 1961 version was not exactly of polished gold anyway. The …
Because the memory of the 1961 version starring Hayley Mills had already been sullied with three made-for-television sequels, we cannot very well pretend that the memory of it has now been sullied by Nancy Meyers's remake. The memory of the 1961 version was not exactly of polished gold anyway. The …
Wrinkly romance between Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, both of whom fudge a bit on their ages (she, when she estimates herself to be "almost" twenty years older than an explicit thirty-six-year-old; and he, when he holds up three fingers to indicate how far he is past sixty), but both …
The battle of the sexes, rigged for the distaff side. A male chauvinist ad exec (Mel Gibson, cranked up a few notches) receives a jolt of electricity and, miraculously, the consequent power to hear women's thoughts. After a bumpy period of adjustment, he settles comfortably into the role of enemy …