The Bachelor
by Gary Sinyor
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Actor: Artie Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Edward Asner, Hal Holbrook, Renée ZellwegerDirector: Gary Sinyor
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
Producer: Chris O'Donnell
Producer: Bing Howenstein
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
Writer: Jean C. Havez
Writer: Joseph A. Mitchell
Writer: Roi Cooper Megrue
Writer: Steve Cohen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Bachelor
Movie Review: Gary Sinyor's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked the movie he made when he was first starting out, as a novice director, LEON THE PIG FARMER (don't let the awful title put you off). Of course LTPF is a very different kettle of fish than THE BACHELOR, but both movies exhibit a very vibrant borrowing from silent film and its subtleties. Sinyor also directed STIFF UPPER LIPS, the parody movie that gave stuffy Merchant-Ivory movies a good shaking up. PIG FARMER is out on DVD but only in the UK, in the meantime let's go to THE BACHELOR and see what's up. Well, it didn't do well at the box office, and studio moguls blamed Sinyor for its failure; what a blow for him, and he hasn't been given the chance to make another movie in the six years since then! (Although happily BOB THE BUTLER will be coming out hopefully by the end of the year, the movie that re-unites Sinyor with his BACHELOR star Brooke Shields.
Chris O'Donnell was doing very well, too, and then along came THE BACHELOR and a few other flops and before long he was regarded as box office poison. There was something about him that perhaps people didn't like, shame too, because he's definitely capable and he's also ready to step up and make a fool of himself for a laugh, something not every actor is willing to do. All these things combine in THE BACHELOR, a comedy romp set in San Francisco in which Chris plays the heir to a fortune of $120 million dollars, but there's a catch, he must marry within 24 hours, and the woman he loves, Renee Zellweger, isn't ready to say yes. So he proposes to a lot of women during the course of the movie. Naturally they all think he's crazy. This has its origin in the old silent classic 7 CHANCES, with Buster Keaton, but it provides a lot of opportunities for some talented actresses. Look out for wonderful Stacy Edwards, the deaf heroine of IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, in a lighter vein here! But the show belongs to Chris O'Donnell, and to a lesser extent Renee Zellweger in whose career this is only a blip. There she is winning Oscar after Oscar, and meanwhile Chris O'Donnell is making independent films after a long post-Bachelor hiatus. What a world!
Anyhow if you live in San Francisco, add another star to THE BACHELOR because you'll be proud we live in such a cool, beautiful city.
However you might deduct a star because the "extras" on this DVD are sub-par. You know there must be dozens of deleted bloopers from Mariah Carey's scenes alone, and yet for this presentation we get nothing!
Summary of The Bachelor
Being a bachelor can really cost you. Just how much is what this bachelor is about to find out. Special features: original theatrical trailer cast and crew filmographies 5.1 digital audio widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film dvd-rom content: script to screen and original theatrical website. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: Chris Odonnell Renee Zellweger Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Gary SinyorThe Bachelor got critically slammed when it played in theaters, probably because reviewers couldn't help comparing it with the movie on which it's based, the brilliant Buster Keaton comedy Seven Chances. But on its own terms, The Bachelor is a modest and enjoyable picture about Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell), a happily single young man who suddenly gets an ultimatum from his grandfather's will: marry by his 30th birthday or lose an inheritance of $100 million. This is revealed the day before that very birthday. Unfortunately, Jimmie had already proposed to his girlfriend Anne (Renee Zellweger) and been turned down; she can see in his eyes that he isn't ready to get married and refuses to accept him until he is. So Jimmie needs to find a bride--fast. Though the commitment-shy man is a hoary cliché, The Bachelor successfully exaggerates Jimmie's fears to comic proportions. O'Donnell is his usual affable self, but it's Zellweger who seizes every scene she's in and makes something really enjoyable out it. The movie's greatest weakness is that she's such a small part of the second half. Still, there's good supporting performances from Hal Holbrook, Ed Asner, James Cromwell, and Marley Shelton (as Zellweger's sister), and Peter Ustinov and Brooke Shields both have very funny scenes. The Bachelor skirts some dangerously chauvinistic territory at times, but by and large it's a pleasant comedy with some genuine good humor. --Bret Fetzer
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