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Reader rating
Dir: Griffin Dunne.
Cast: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Shepard
Description: When it comes to falling in love, radio agony aunt Dr Emma Lloyd knows best. Every show, she takes calls from unhappy or desperate listeners, all with one thing on their minds - finding the perfect partner. Emma is lucky, she already has her Mr Right, dashing Englishman Richard Bratton, and their impending nuptials will be a day to remember¿ until Emma counsels Sofia on air and guides her towards breaking up with her boyfriend, firefighter Patrick. In revenge, Patrick sets about wrecking Emma's relationship.
Country: US. 2008. 90mins
Nuptials nonsense: Uma Thurman and Colin Firth
Words almost fail me after watching this terrible romantic comedy from Griffin Dunne which is perilously described as a "sort of Carole Lombard screwball comedy". Would that it were.
Uma Thurman, who produced, too, plays the Lombard role of Dr Emma Lloyd, a New York radio DJ dispensing practical advice to the lovelorn, although she's totally unable to keep her own romancing in any kind of order.
She is due to be married to Richard (Colin Firth), her well-off and dependable fiancé, but suddenly makes the discovery that City Hall records have her down as already married.
This bureaucratic foul-up can't apparently be rectified and it is made all the worse when she meets Jeffrey Dean Morgan's fireman, who has come to her for advice after a jilting.
Of course, they fall for one another and it leaves Firth with one of those awful parts he must now be familiar with - the gentlemanly lover who lets the girl go.
Thurman plays the so-called comedy for all it is worth and sometimes considerably more, as if Pulp Fiction and Tarantino were but distant and happier memories.
Morgan looks like a bit of boring rough trade to me. Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini and Lindsay Sloane are also in the cast but are left floundering as the clichés mount.
There's a nice Bollywood song by AH Rahman over the end credits - and this really looks like a bad Bollywood movie without the songs. Carole Lombard would have had a fit.
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It's not great. Thurman, well that part could have been played by anyone, and to be honest I wished it had. Both the leading men work with what they've got, JD Morgan turns on the charm he used so well in Grey's Anatomy and Colin Firth is a more anal and less funny Mark Darcy (not his fault that's the script). It's predictable but you do get to see Morgan in a FDNY uniform (always a bonus!).
- Sammy, London
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