Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Amber Valletta, Eva Mendes, Julie Ann Emery, Kevin James, Will SmithDirector: Andy Tennant
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Editor: Troy Takaki
Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Producer: Wink Mordaunt
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 11235
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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- Meet Hitch (Will Smith), New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and he'll get you the girl of your dreams in just three easy dates, guaranteed! And that's exactly what happens when Albert Brennaman (TV's Kevin James, "The King of Queens") wins the heart of gorgeous society heiress Allegra Cole (supermodel Amber Valletta). So when tabloid columnist Sara Melas (Eva Mend
Movie Reviews of Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Hitch Cinema Psychotherapy
Summary: 5 Stars
The premise of Hitch (Will Smith) as cinema psychotherapy is if you see enough films (and avoid alcohol, nicotine and caffeine) you don't need a therapist. Groundhog Day (Special 15th Anniversary Edition) has the next lesson: you need to see a movie daily for 10 years in order to really "get" the lesson. Third, anyone loved by family and friends knows how it feels to be loved without sex, so love with or without sex will find them again.
In the movie, Hitch loved and was deeply hurt early in life, so he decides never to love again, but to help other dorks like himself avoid his prior mistakes and find true love. Hitch is a paid consultant in love: new teeth, work outs (or liposuction), new hair, new clothes, new glasses, new dance steps, confidence, power tie, power suit, power car, power hand shake. The insecure like Albert (Kevin James) pay handsomely for his assistance in realizing romance. But underneath all his self assurance, Hitch believes in the power of love to transform lives and refuses to work with verbally physically emotionally spiritually abusive men. Charmingly, Hitch alludes to the tendency of men's eyes to wander even when in deeply committed relationships, as when Hitch's former roommate now brother-in-law tries to advise Hitch on love; which is another way of saying how you look can attract attention but not necessarily love.
In the movie Hitch advises a series of men in their approach to the women of their dreams. However Hitch falls for and is outed by gossip columnist who feels manipulated by his well practiced techniques when she discovers his profession. Subsequently his prior successes dissolve. The resolution of this hilarious movie is heart warming psychobabble: anyone who loves you as yourself probably loves the authentic you; if they walk away, they will always regret having lost you.
The movie 84 Charing Cross Road(Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft) illustrates the possibility of love entirely through letters; that you can love having NEVER seen one another which explains centuries of human reproduction via arranged marriage.
Hitch posits external characteristics are first attractants only: meeting is a matter of luck (orchestrated by Hitch or your local plastic surgeon), keeping a relationship happily intact relies on the old standards: mental health, duty, responsibility, honor, fidelity, probity, commitment to doing what is right and true to the best of one's ability, being yourself. The happiest people are rarely those with the biggest toys, teeth, body parts, and the happiest couples are often mixes of extraordinary kindness, generosity, mutual caring, sacrifice and devotion, shared fiscal, parenting and sexual values.
Hitch is cinema psychotherapy E-Motion Picture Magic: A Movie Lover's Guide to Healing and Transformation. Laughingly recommended with 5 stars. Also see The Holiday, Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition), Persuasion with Amanda Root and Cieran Hinds, Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)with Colin Firth.
Be yourself: empathic, trustworthy, honest, impeccable in your ethics and morals, and willing to humble yourself enough to make changes in preconceived notions of what is desirable. If love finds you, it is karma, if not, you are still a remarkable unique human being, there will never be another you (Rosemary Clooney The Rosemary Clooney Show: Songs from the Classic TV Series singing in The Lake House (Full Screen Edition)). Perhaps you will find a way to share that specialness with the world. You are perfect just the way you are, be well.
Also see Departures, August Rush, Dan in Real Life, and The Family Man about men allowing love to find them after they've found themselves
Summary of Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
ALEX 'HITCH' HITCHENS IS A TRUE URBAN MYTH - A LEGENDARY NEWYORK CITY 'DATE DOCTOR' WHO, FOR A FEE HAS HELPED HUNDREDS OF MEN WOO THE WOMEN OF THEIR DREAMS. THE ULTIMATE PROFESSIONALBACHELOR, HITCH DISCOVERS THAT ALL OF HIS TRIED & TRUE TRICKS OF THE TRADE ARE NO MATCH FOR SARA, THE ONE WOMAN HE TRULY LOVESWill Smith's easygoing charm makes Hitch the kind of pleasant, uplifting romantic comedy that you could recommend to almost anyone--especially if there's romance in the air. As suave Manhattan dating consultant Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, Smith plays up the smoother, sophisticated side of his established screen persona as he mentors a pudgy accountant (Kevin James) on the lessons of love. The joke, of course, is that Hitch's own love life is a mess, and as he coaches James toward romance with a rich, powerful, and seemingly inaccessible beauty named Allegra (Amber Valetta), he's trying too hard to impress a savvy gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) with whom he's fallen in love. Through mistaken identities and mismatched couples, director Andy Tennant brings the same light touch that made Drew Barrymore's Ever After so effortlessly engaging. As romantic comedies go, Hitch doesn't offer any big surprises, but as a date movie it gets the job done with amiable ease and style. --Jeff Shannon
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