Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
Excellent adaptation.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Terrible plot premise ("I want to marry a baby!" WTF?). Horrid direction and stiff Phantom Menace level acting across the board (at least with PM the actors had the excuse of "green screen stare"). Some of the most on-the-nose, painful dialogue I have heard this side of an after school special. And don't get me started on the awful 90s fashions...hooboy. Some decent actors in this, but they all seemed lost and confused...which was welcome company to my own bewilderment. I can't believe I wasn't time watching this thing. I kind of imagine this thing was made by some sort of automated bad script writing program.It wasn't even "so bad it's good"...it was just bad.
But it didn't come out right. It's as if they started out to make a serious film and then handed it over to a Wes Anderson type at the last minute. Plot lines that start in a good direction turn unexpectedly goofy. And some side plots that are meant to add humor--Martha Plimpton and her gun, for instance--are simply annoying.Jude Law plays a scrawny bakery delivery boy who doesn't know when to shut up, and Gretchen Mol is the uptight sophisticate of her family who is already engaged to a man who is perfect for her. He drives the right car and bails her family out financially--she needs those things. So when he wants to buy her a book for her birthday instead of a flowered knit cap--well, Gretchen's character isn't the flowered knit cap type, and all the romantic lecturing of Jude's character about the hat vs. the book, however right in theory, doesn't change that. The movie never satisfactorily established why Gretchen would fall for Jude--in fact, the scene (SPOILER ALERT) where Gretchen and Jude get together, and then the next day she can hardly look at him--that was true to character. What happened later was not.The best and most believable characters in the film were the mother, well acted by Brenda Blethyn, and the blind sister (Meg Tilly) and her boyfriend, Jesus. I loved Jesus! One last comment--whoever chose the music for this film should be shot--there's one really bad top-40 pop song that cues in more than once when Jude and Gretchen go for the kiss, and it cheapens the scenes.
I'm not used with romance movies but they're useful on some days. like this one and specially the blind-test riding scene! superb idea. and GRETCHEN is so attractive........... (she can also be viewed on THE 13TH FLOOR) in the same order watch MARTHA MEET FRANK DANIEL LAWRENCE, SHE-S THE ONE, PICTURE PERFECT. bye
I loved this movie. It was brilliant, original, unique and more. The story was such a beautiful one. All the actors were amazing in it (especially Jude Law and Jennifer Tilly) it was so nice to see a movie that wasn't all soppy and typical. This movie is in no way a classic love story. It has twists and turns all through it and the occasional moment of humor. Some of the scenes were so touching. Just an all round great feelgood movie - 9/10
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