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5.7/10   11,218 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Joan Taylor (story) and
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Release Date:
14 February 1997 (USA) more
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Tagline:
What if finding the love of your life meant changing the life that you loved? more
Plot:
After a one night stand with Isabel, Alex realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
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Now this is what I call a `romantic comedy' more (116 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Matthew Perry ... Alex Whitman

Salma Hayek ... Isabel Fuentes Whitman

Jon Tenney ... Jeff

Carlos Gómez ... Chuy (as Carlos Gomez)
Tomas Milian ... Tomas Fuentes
Siobhan Fallon ... Lanie

John Bennett Perry ... Richard Whitman

Stanley DeSantis ... Judd Marshall
Suzanne Snyder ... Cathy Stewart

Anne Betancourt ... Amalia
Jill Clayburgh ... Nan Whitman
Angelina Torres ... Great Grandma (as Angelina Calderon Torres)
Debby Shively ... Donna, Construction Secretary

Mark Adair-Rios ... Juan Fuentes
Annie Combs ... Dr. Lisa Barnes, OBGYN
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sensuality and brief language.
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109 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Before the movie was filmed, there was no Arizona/Nevada "border" painted on the highway that spans the Hoover Dam. When it was added for the movie, local officials decided to keep it intact after the filming of the movie. As of September 2005 the border painted in the street is no longer there. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Alex is carrying the marlin at the beginning it switches from right side up to upside down as he walks into his office. more
Quotes:
Isabel Fuentes: [in labor, screaming at Alex] I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!
Dam Policeman Delivering Baby: They always say that.
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Movie Connections:
References The Shawshank Redemption (1994) more
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Los Abajenas more

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Now this is what I call a `romantic comedy', 14 February 2004
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Author: Keith F. Hatcher from La Rioja, Spain



Sometimes the mood one is in at a given moment is just right for the film you are about to see. This, obviously, has its setbacks. One night you are just not in the mood, and you write a film off as trash; another night, in a more favourable frame of mind, you lap up a film just loving it. This is of course pre-emptive and subjective: but we are all human. We all have our foibles and manias. So if you forgive me for dismissing out of hand all those delightfully dreadful romantic comedies with Richard Gere or Hugh Grant, whoever the delicious young lady may be playing with them, without forgetting Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, as being pure unadulterated slush, we might meet on level terms and wade in where fools fear to tread.

I just love Salma Hayek.

She is not only superbly gorgeous to look at - those deep Mexican-Lebanese eyes just keep you enchanted throughout - but she is also pretty good at acting. That, together with a nicely-told story with intelligent directing and dialogues which do not fall flat on their face helps make `Fools Rush in' stand out above the rest of the ilk. Firstly the film does not try to be sickly funny. It does not make ireful bile rise into your throat. Perhaps Matthew Perry is not the exact partner for the role, but the chemistry between him and Salma Hayek seems to hold together fairly well. The story is also an indictment into situations which must be arising daily: especially in the United States of America where racial intolerance can become highly murky. A white New-Yorker falls in love with a Mexican girl. Well, if they are all like Salma Hayek, I would not be at all surprised. I would, too. But sociological barriers - in the Mexican family also, with a wonderful interpretation here by Angelina Calderón Torres - produce the logical but hypocritical obstacles which still persist in what for me should be classified as erstwhile societies.

A film I shall see again, which for me must be unique among films called romantic comedies. But there is just that something in the petite thirty-year-old Salma Hayek which lifts me heart and soul into clouds of surrealistic fantasy, that has me fascinated, enchanted.

Therefore any objective commenting on this film is out of the question for me. Tut, tut, my lad.

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