My Best Friend's Girl Movie Reviews

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Kate Hudson, Dane Cook and Jason Biggs star in this romantic comedy about a man (Biggs) who hires his best friend Tank (Cook) whose job is to make girls run back to their exes once they date him.  

 

Release date:  September 19, 2008 

 

   

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Movie Review and Clip: Adam

Romance can be risky, perplexing and filled with the perils of miscommunication - and that's if you aren't ADAM, for whom life itself is this way.  In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy (THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC) stars as Adam, a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence - until he meets his new neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne, "Damages," 28 WEEKS LATER, KNOWING), a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Watch a clip from ADAM.

Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.  ADAM also stars Peter Gallagher (“The O.C.”), Amy Irving (“Alias”), and Frankie Faison (“The Wire”). Written & directed by Max Mayer.

 

MOVIE REVIEW

Adam is the story of a woman looking for truth in her life, and of a man who can be nothing but honest. Adam, played by Hugh Dancy, is a young man with Asperger’s Syndrome. Just as his father dies, a young woman, played by Rose Byrne, moves into his apartment building. Her unabashed, sincere, friendliness gets past his shy, anti-social awkwardness and by the time she realizes how deep his social limitations are, a friendship has already been formed. Her interest and curiosity encourages her to learn more about this syndrome. And as their relationship grows, she takes on the task of helping Adam get a new job and achieve more independence.


As Beth’s own life begins to unravel, Adam’s honesty becomes even more precious to her until the truth becomes too painful to bear. This is a beautiful love story, brilliantly acted, wonderfully detailed, and genuinely heartfelt. It is unsentimental in delivery and is never maudlin. It is a very moving film totally worth seeing.


Melanie Wilson

Visit her blog at LAMelbox.blogspot.com

 

 
Studio:    Fox Searchlight
Genres:    Comedy, Drama And Romance
Release Date:    July 29, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating:    PG-13 for thematic material, sexual content and language.
Starring:    Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker
Directed By:    Max Mayer
Produced By:    Christina Weiss Lurie, Dean Vanech, Miranda De Pencier
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OBSESSED Movie Clip and Reviews

Don't make Beyonce mad?  In OBSESSED, her character Sharon thinks her husband is having an affair with a temp in his office.  View Beyonce in anger mode in this clip.

Synopsis:

Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

 
Release Date:    April 24, 2009
Starring:    Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, with Jerry O’Connell and Christine Lahti
Directed By:    Steve Shill
Produced By:    Will Packer
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Movie Reviews and Clip: 500 Days of Summer

This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel (Yes, Man).

In this clip, the couple pretend to be man and wife in their home while shopping at Ikea.

 
Studio:    Fox Searchlight
Genres:    Comedy And Romance
Release Date:    July 17, 2009
MPAA Rating:    PG-13
Starring:    Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Minka Kelly, Rachel Boston, Clark Gregg
Directed By:    Marc Webb
Produced By:    Mark Waters, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mason Novick
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Duplicity Movie Trailer and Reviews

Duplicity

Two longtime lovers and corporate spies (Julia Roberts, Clive Owen) team up to stage an elaborate con and steal a valuable product.

 
Studio:    Universal
Genres:    Drama
Release Date:    March 20, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating:    TBA
Starring:    Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Rick Worthy (II)
Directed By:    Tony Gilroy
Produced By:    Laura Bickford, Jennifer Fox
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Doubt Movie Reviews

Based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Doubt stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams in a story about the quest for the truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.

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