Music From Another Room
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Movie Reviews of Music From Another Room
Movie Review: In Perfect Harmony
Summary: 4 Stars
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is a very sweet, romantic film. My husband and I spent a quiet evening at home watching this one, and we both really enjoyed it. While the plot is familiar and predictable, it is still very well done, and exactly what you want this kind of movie to be.
In MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM, we first meet 5 year old Danny as he helps to deliver the baby of his recently deceased mother's best friend. After baby Anna makes her unique arrival into the world, young Danny declares that he will marry her someday. Soon after this momentous event, however, Danny and his father move back to England. Jump forward 25 years, and we meet Danny again, newly returned to the USA. He thinks he is going to move in with his girlfriend, but she does not have the same idea. In fact, she is leaving town to be with someone else. Fate then does a little happy dance, and Danny ends up living above a bakery, with a job as a delivery boy, delivering a cake to the family of his mother's best friend, where he runs in to baby Anna, all grown up now. She is lovely and sweet, and of course, engaged to someone else. Danny immediately falls in love with her, and delivers that classic pick up line, "Wow, the last time I saw you, you were covered in after-birth." Anna does not think much of Danny, at first, but over time, he grows on her. Will fate intervene again? Will Danny and Anna fulfill their destiny?
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is charming, fun, and innocent. Jude Law is young and handsome, and just right for the role of Danny. Gretchen Mol is lovely, sweet, and actually very naive as Anna. Jennifer Tilly is excellent as the quirky, sheltered blind sister, Nina, who finds unexpected romance with Jesus, a dishwasher who embraces life, wonderfully portrayed by Vincent Laresca. The rest of the cast is equally outstanding, and does an excellent job of portraying this wacky, dysfunctional, but loving family.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is an odd-ball, funny, wacky romantic comedy that will tickle your funny bone and warm your heart. Yes, it is predicable, standard stuff, but it is very, very well done, for what it is. These characters and their story really capture your heart, and keep you caring until the very end. If you want to spend a quiet evening cuddling on the couch with your sweetie, then this is the perfect movie. Popcorn and snuggles, what a perfect evening with the one you love.
Movie Review: Music From Another Room: A Guy's Description of Love
Summary: 4 Stars
When five year old Danny helps deliver the baby of his deceased mother's best friend, he declares that he will marry her, the baby, someday. His father then moves him to England and the story picks up 25 years later.
We next see an absolutely gorgeous Danny (Jude Law) on his return to the United States where he must find employment and a place to live. Fate jumps in and provides him with both in the form of a rented room above a bakery and a job delivering baked goods. Fate again steps in and creates a bicycle accident that knocks him off his bike and into the arms of none other than Anna Swan(Gretchen Mol), the baby he helped deliver 25 years before. Without a doubt, Danny is obviously smitten even before he realizes who she is. No big surprise we discover the girl of his dreams is engaged to someone else.
The delightfully disfunctional Swan family brings comic relief to what could have easily been just another run-of-the-mill romance story. Grace (Brenda Blethyn), the family matriarch is a light hearted, rather etherial sort of mother. You adore her character for a variety of reasons, most importantly because she genuinely loves Danny. Nina (Jennifer Tilly) the blind sister who is sheltered beyond belief until Danny encourages her to spread her wings a little and teaches her that there is life outside of her sheltered existence. Billy (Jeremy Piven) the brother that cheats on his insane wife, Irene (Jane Adams) (these characters are obviously included solely to garner a few comedic moments and succeed well). Karen (Martha Plimpton) the gay sister who has a great line or two but basically is a rather dispensable character.
There is one character that bears a special mention, Jesus (pronounced in the english form rather than the spanish way) played by Vincent Laresca. He plays the eventual love interest of Nina. Girls will fall for his dorky touching portrayal of a man in love with a blind woman.
There is a lot of predictability with this movie but it is still worth watching. I would be remiss if I didn't point out there is one of the most delightful death scenes ever filmed, it is also one of the funniest scenes in the movie. This is a feel good romantic adventure that allows the viewer to escape reality for a delightful 104 minutes.
Movie Review: A sweet movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this movie with the ensemble cast. It has interesting story lines with the characters. I like the premise that following one's passion isn't always easy, but to live a life without passion is to resign to "death" of your soul.Movie Review: A Decent Story with Excessive Subplots Saved by some Good Acting
Summary: 3 Stars
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM was written and directed by Charlie Peters: the film script would benefit from some judicious editing. Yet as a light love story it is fast moving despite diversions in the plot and in general gives some fine actors good screen time.
Danny (Jude Law) as a five-year-old lad assisted in the complicated birth of his friend Grace Swan's (Brenda Blethyn) child Anna (Gretchen Mol) and at that moment declared he would marry Anna someday. Twenty five years later Danny returns to Los Angeles from his home in England and encounters the mature Anna who is now engaged to Eric (Jon Tenney), falls in love, returns to the neighbor family of his childhood where Grace greets him with effusive warmth. The family is a dysfunctional one: Anna's sister Nina (Jennifer Tilly) is blind and dependent on Anna; brother Billy (Jeremy Piven) is married to suicidal Irene (Jane Adams); cynical feminist sister Karen (Martha Plimpton) is a man-eater; and the father cares for Grace as she is stricken with a terminal illness. Anna resists Danny, but Danny's influence on the family is like 'music from another room', and results in positive changes in each of the family members: Nina finds love with Jesus (Vincent Laresca), a kitchen worker who introduces Nina to dancing, love, and independence; Grace opens her longing for Anna to experience passion instead of just caring for everyone; and the concept of fate and love and passion is stirred vigorously.
Jude Law is his usual appealing self and makes his role credible. Jennifer Tilly does a fine job realizing Nina and her transformation, and Brenda Blethyn gives us a heady dose of Brenda Blethyn, which is always welcome. There are many problems with the film, the most significant one being Gretchen Mol who doesn't take her character beyond paper doll and certainly doesn't seem an adequate reason for Jude Law's unswerving attention. But as a film it works well enough and does provide some food for thought about the true meaning of love. Grady Harp, April 06
Movie Review: Adorable and forgettable
Summary: 3 Stars
I was very involved with this romance when it appeard on my small screen at home. I empathized with certain characters, felt deeply the pain and joy of others, and altogether enjoyed my 100 minutes with this little movie.
Then, the next morning, I couldn't remember anything about it. This, I think, is the capsule of this film.
"Music From Another Room" is a traditional romantic comedy that breaks no rules, sets no precedents, and is otherwise shipshape, likable and ultimately forgettable. It is about a young boy that helps deliver a baby and says he'll marry her...then the film jumps ahead 25 years where he inadvertently meets her and pursues his earlier projection within the constrictions of her oddfall family members. I think you probably know how this is going to end.
What this film has going for it is the most beautiful cast to grace a romance, perhaps ever. Jude Law and Gretchen Mol make one of the most beautiful lead duos in movie history and the supporting group -- headed by Jon Tenney, Jennifer Tilly, Martha Plimpton, Jeremy Piven and Brenda Blethyn -- are almost all equally as beautiful. Their ensemble work is characterful and effective, although the script is unoriginal and predictable.
While it won't displace your favorite romantic comedies at the top of your list, this movie should find a place in that list for at least a viewing or two. While the story is unoriginal and predictable it is also sentimental and the cast is beautiful. This is enough to lose yourself in this for at least one evening.