My wife and I watched it quite by accident recently. Very funny, warm and witty. Reminded me of Blind Date, Continental Devide, but more clever. We laughed and cried at the foibles of both the main actors. The story line is intriguing with pertinent flashbacks. Modern and timely. I was hooked in an early scene where Adam says "You think this is a joke? Here's a joke. Two guys walk into a bar and one of them is a 30 year old stand up comedian who lives with his parents." His rival melts away. The line about her faking her documentaries regarding a particular act being more beneficial to the ....ee than to the ....er was priceless. All the previous relationships were germane to her frustration with men.
... View MoreThis is one of my favorite movies of all time. Sooooooo amazing and underrated. I've watched it dozens of times and I never get sick of it. Jon Favreau is also one of my favorite actors. He's so funny! He and Famke Jensen have an amazing chemistry in this film. It seems so real and genuine, like a lot of things you can relate to and understand. One of my favorite scenes is when Kate comes home and Adam asks her to fill him a tub. I love it! :) Another one is when they are out shopping, walking down the street and they start an argument about who looks better when they age, men or women. Anyways if you've never seen I obviously highly recommend it.
... View MoreA funny, captivating film. Honest in its approach to portray the difference between people and true love. We all make connections we people through relationships but we may not always make the right decision at the right time. It may make you at crazy, but when you've been 'cheese sandwiched' then you will know that you don't want anymore. If you want to experience someone else's view on love and sex watch it, you might love it or hate it, either because you think its rubbish or because you might not like what its saying. But we all do it so why not humour yourself, after all were all looking for that one connection, the one piece of comfort we find in this ever lonelier world. -A bit deep? well its only an opinion!
... View MoreLOVE AND SEX (2000) *** Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Cheri Oteri, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Josh Hopkins, Rob Knepper, Vincent Ventresca, (Cameo: David Schwimmer). Dir: Valerie Breiman.I love Famke Janssen. Her curvaceous, statuesque physique and indelible cheekbones, the lush lips and alert dark brown eyes complimenting her mane of raven hair Sorry. Ok now that I 've got that out in the open I can now happily say that her latest film, and first comedy, is an engaging and funny look at two characteristics seldom in synch during relationships.The aforementioned sexy significant other in a parallel universe stars as Kate a young woman facing her past and present affairs of the heart largely due to her stressful job as a feature journalist for a chic women's magazine not unlike Cosmopolitan run by her shrewish editor (Magnuson, always a welcome sight and doing a slight riff on her character from her sitcom 'Anything But Love'), who forces her to make a deadline about an article on finding (and loving) the right man.Kate has been through the relationship mill and flashbacks in chronology from her deflowering by her French college professor (Knepper) to an unknowingly married man (Emmerich) up to her 14th lover, Adam (Favreau, best known from 'Swingers'), an artist with a flair for the grotesque in his ugly paintings and for his way with being forthright in conversation. Immediately smitten by his charm Kate falls in love and is convinced Adam is her soulmate and vice versea.What follows is a string of sequences of the ups and downs of their relationship with echoes of 'Annie Hall', 'She's Having A Baby' and 'When Harry Met Sally ' but maintains a smartness all its own and largely for a change of pace, told mostly from the woman's viewpoint thanks to novice filmmaker Breiman who also penned the sassy, self-deprecating screenplay. Many of her setups take time and are played loose for full effect as well as some genuine out loud laughs, especially when Kate and Adam break up and they keep running into one another with new partners (I loved Kate's assessment of one of Adam's young nymphos as a Lolita and when he defends her by saying she plays the harp her tart retort is, 'Oh so she's a bimbo savant'.) Favreau seems to be channeling Albert Brooks with his wire rim glasses and curly hair as well as being funny on his own (his sudden realization of making the biggest mistake in dumping Janssen is an all too true moment not unlike the classic scene in 'Swingers' when he makes the biggest faux pas: answering machine redialing).Oteri, the current Gilda Radner of 'SNL' has a small but amusing part as the Mutt to Janssen's Jeff (or is that the other way around) and one of the largest laughs is by the unbilled Schwimmer; to say anymore would ruin a fine gag.But the biggest surprise is how adept Janssen is in being such a real character and not a cool cucumber as she has been more or less typecast in her other films. Think Janeane Garafalo trapped in the body of a supermodel and you pretty much get the sum of the parts of her Kate.Chemistry, all-too-familiar genre refreshened and a sparkling turn by Janssen makes for a nice date movie (even if you've been married 50 years or it's a blind date) and a good laugh at the foibles of following one's heart (with heartbreak).
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