Romantic Comedy
by Arthur Hiller
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Actor: Dudley Moore, Frances Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Mary Steenburgen, Robyn DouglassDirector: Arthur Hiller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: A weak play becomes a movie
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is not as bad as Leonard Maltin claims, in his much-read movie book, but it does lack a lot, beginning with the script. The film consists of more than two hours of a couple of writers, somehow in love with each other but unable or unwilling to marry, fussing, fighting, and shouting. And in the end, even though their sexual escapade proved less than thrilling, they end in a clinch on a couch. Happing ending. The film is not very romantic and certainly isn't funny. The moral dimensions of the script are wholly secular and consistently depressing. Marriage and children are nothing when compared to sexual urges, booze, and fame.
But there are some good lines in places. And the acting is superb. Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen are something to behold. The music is above average, and Arthur Hiller displays his usual excellence as a director. But even the stars of the film were unable to put life into a lame script that is at least 30 minutes too long.
Summary of Romantic Comedy
Oscar?(r)-nominated* director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) directs a perfect cast (Leonard Maltin), including funnyman Dudley Moore (Arthur) and captivating Oscar?(r) winner** Mary Steenburgen (Parenthood), in a modern tale of the trials and tribulations of falling in love with someone completely unavailable. Adapted by Bernard Slade (Same Time, Next Year) from his hit stage play, this upbeat urban comedy is an engagingly wry spectacle where sparklingwordplay becomes scintillating foreplay. Playwright Jason Carmichael (Moore) hasn't had a hit since he lost his writing partner. But when gawky neophyte writer Phoebe Craddock (Steenburgen) enters his life, she not only helps him pen hit after hit'she also steals his heart! After years of intimate collaboration, the two would be as close as the keys on a typewriter were it not for one thing: Jason's wife. But when his marriage fails, the stage is finally set for the lovers to either extend their romantic run indefinitely or close it down for good!Comedy DVD Video
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