Laws of Attraction
by Peter Howitt
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Actor: Frances Fisher, Julianne Moore, Michael Sheen, Parker Posey, Pierce BrosnanDirector: Peter Howitt
Brand: NLV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
Published: 2004-08-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Laws of Attraction
Movie Review: almost family safe
Summary: 5 Stars
There aren't too many movies nowadays that you can see and be totally relaxed and enjoy unless they're rated G. Every film PG-13 and up has foul language, sexual activity, violence, etc. - all in abundance. There was one scene in which a rock star gives his wife the finger - but this film makes TV's "The Practice" look like it's rated R.
Brosnan is a somewhat frumpled, yet highly successful divorce lawyer that moves from California to New York after a 10 year hiatus and begins representing people fighting against those represented by Julianne Moore. She is disgusted by him from the get-go. His hair is ruffled and his suits are unkept. She is anal and everything must be just so. She is in a competition with her mother as to who can look the best and be most energetic and her mother is winning by strides. Of course, her mother gets cosmetic surgery at the same rate people change their sheets.
Familiarity might breed contempt, but loathing sometimes breeds attraction. As they are forced to work together or against each other from case to case, they force themselves to get along in a professional business matter. While trying to settle the estate of a British rocker and his American wife, they both end up going to Ireland to do research on the Rocker's castles and other holdings. They end up having to collaborate, even though they are professional adversaries and as unlikely as it would seem, they get "accidentally" married (not Britney married - just drunk married).
They both wake in horror, desiring to keep their faux pas marriage under wraps and to somehow get a quickie divorce as soon as possible. Their accidental marriage ends up affecting them in ways they never imagined and their disdain for each other blooms into true affection - not just some teenage lust.
While the viewer is not subjected to nudity or bedspring noises, it is more than implied that the two sleep together before they are married - so if you don't want your kids to see that, save this for when the kids are asleep - but for a Hollywood film, this movie is extremely tame.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this film. No stress, no paint-peeling language, no bed hopping, no toilet humor and no bullets flying. Wow - all this AND they were able to be sweet, smart and entertaining?! How innovative! Hollywood needs to produce more films like this rather than the continual load of mind garbage they are so famous for grinding out like so much sausage.
Summary of Laws of Attraction
Get ready to fall in love with the year's wittiest romantic comedy! Can two high-powered divorce attorneys make it as man and wife? Find out with the romance that proves that love always gets the last word.DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailer:2 Original Theatrical Trailers
Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan turn on the movie-star twinkle in Laws of Attraction. They're both divorce lawyers whose in-court conflicts give rise to sparks of an entirely different nature--and while they're in Ireland, trying to determine whether the husband or wife in a rock-star divorce deserves to keep a swank castle, they "accidentally" get married. Back in New York, they agree to keep up the pretence of marriage, lest a quickie divorce make them the laughingstocks of the legal community. Few comedies are as outright clumsy as Laws of Attraction; the plot falls apart even as you're watching it, the dialogue stumbles, the direction is graceless. Somehow Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours) and Brosnan (Tomorrow Never Dies) sustain their charm--but if you're looking for a comedy about divorce, Intolerable Cruelty or the classic Adam's Rib provide a lot more fun. --Bret Fetzer
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