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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Griffin Dunne
Writer (WGA):
Robert Gordon (written by)
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Release Date:
23 May 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
A Comedy About Lost Loves And Last Laughs more
Plot:
Maggie's and Sam's former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple. full summary | add synopsis
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(11 articles)
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User Comments:
Romantic comedy with a rather hard edge more (60 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Meg Ryan ... Maggie

Matthew Broderick ... Sam

Kelly Preston ... Linda

Tchéky Karyo ... Anton (as Tcheky Karyo)

Maureen Stapleton ... Nana

Nesbitt Blaisdell ... Ed Green
Remak Ramsay ... Professor Wells

Lee Wilkof ... Carl

Dominick Dunne ... Matheson
Susan Forristal ... Cecile
Larry Pine ... Street Comic

Debbon Ayer ... Gwen
Maurizio Benazzo ... Euro-Chic Man
Paolo Calamari ... French Bartender
Helmar Augustus Cooper ... Bus Driver
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Forlorn
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content.
Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Centerville, Delaware, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The food critic who accidentally eats a cockroach is director Griffin Dunne's father, Dominick Dunne. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Maggie is consoling Anton, she takes the strawberries from his pillow with her right hand, shows them to him, then throws them away. Next, in reconciliation, she scratches his head and face with her right hand, spreading strawberry juice all over him again. more
Quotes:
Maggie: When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they've started to grow, and eventually they're gonna eat the dog alive from the inside... more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Everybody Loves a Train more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Romantic comedy with a rather hard edge, 11 December 1998
7/10
Author: Stefan Kahrs from Canterbury, England

This is a romantic comedy with a rather hard edge, or, to put it differently, a European-style farce with a too cushy ending.

Apparently, this film was conceived as a Meg Ryan vehicle, i.e. as a product suitable for her established screen persona. This was a mistake. The cast choice (and the marketing) make the outcome of the film blatantly obvious and that takes away too much suspense from the viewing experience. Also, the film makers did not have the courage to bring the misfortunes heaped upon Anton Depeaux (played very well by Tcheky Karyo) to their logical conclusion. It's designed as a chick-flick and thus everyone's gotta be happy at the end. A more emotionally ambiguous ending could have turned this into something special.

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