Modern Romance
by Albert Brooks
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Actor: Albert Brooks, Bruno Kirby, Jane Hallaren, Kathryn Harrold, Tyann MeansDirector: Albert Brooks
Brand: Sony
Writer: Albert Brooks
Cinematographer: Eric Saarinen
Editor: David Finfer
Producer: Andrew Scheinman
Producer: Martin Shafer
Writer: Monica Mcgowan Johnson
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Movie Review: "The Ludes Kicked in...Right?"
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of comedian, Albert Brooks since the mid 1970's, when his odd little, comical, short films were included on very early episodes of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live'. Since then he has branched off (both on and off screen) in a motion picture career in a series of hilarious film comedies, that feature his character persona of a self-obsessed (and somewhat spoiled) individual, who wallows & obsesses over his neuroses and insecurites. In otherwords everything is about "Me" with a capitol 'M'! Out of all of these films, my personal favorite is the 1981 relationship-comedy, "Modern Romance". I think I like it so much, because it is the Brooks character at his most neurotic. The film's opening scene is in an L.A. restaurant, where Robert Cole (Brooks), a successful Hollywood film editor, breaks up with his girlfriend, Mary (an excellent Kathryn Harrold). Mary instantly agrees and says "maby this is a good time". This seems to enrage Robert, who acuses her of infidelity and we get the first indications, that this guy dosn't take rejection all to well and he just might 'have a screw loose'. We spend the rest of the film following Robert throughout L.A. as he neurotically tortures himself for breaking up with this woman. He seems to go back and forth, alternately telling himself it's both the "best" and the "worst" thing he's ever done. When Robert eventually talks Mary into getting back together, he then precedes to start driving her crazy with his insecurities and paranoia. Every time he is confronted with evidence of this, he retorts with the mantra, "I do it, because I love you!" I guess what Brooks is saying is that this thing called love, can make us really nutty. So who needs it? Both Brooks and Harrold are excellent in the lead roles. This is really Brook's film, but Harrold makes an excellent straight man, who's character seems to show endless patience in dealing with Brook's craziness. The perfect example of this is a scene, where Robert interrupts Mary's business dinner in a fancy restaurant with a group of Japanese clients and demands she come home with him so they can "mend their relationship". In this wonderfully comic scene, she takes Robert aside and speaks to him like a cross mother, lecturing a badly mannered child. The film goes on and on like this, until it ends with one of the funniest postscripts I have ever seen in a movie. You have to see it to believe it. Also, look for good comic turns from character actor, Bruno Kirby as Brook's steadfast, editing assistant. All the scenes showing Brooks and Kirby at work, editing films are like these perfect little satires of how Hollywood works in creating it's product. Finally, there is an absolutely hilarious cameo from comedian (and Brook's real-life brother) Super Dave Osborne as an over-the-top, passive-agressive, sporting goods salesman. This is a wonderful, small, satiric film about relationships, that will leave you laughing! Highly recommended!
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