Music from Another Room (1998)

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... See full summary »

Director:

Charlie Peters

Writer:

Charlie Peters

Stars:

Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Gretchen Mol

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jude Law	...	Danny
Jennifer Tilly	...	Nina
Gretchen Mol	...	Anna
Martha Plimpton	...	Karen
Brenda Blethyn	...	Grace
Jon Tenney	...	Eric
Jeremy Piven	...	Billy
Vincent Laresca	...	Jesus
Jane Adams	...	Irene
Bruce Jarchow	...	Richard
Kevin Kilner	...	Hank
Jan Rubes	...	Louis Klammer
Judith Malina	...	Clara Klammer
Hillary Matthews	...	Sarah
Caitlin Sarah Needham	...	Lily

Storyline

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 mother's best friend went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swan 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 Swans 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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Plot Keywords:

swan | fate | friend | fight | passion | 

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Taglines:

Their romance began the day she was born.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexuality and language

Details

Official Sites:

MGM

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 November 1998 (Australia)

Also Known As:

Atração Irresistível

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Orion Pictures Corporation, Capella International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital (DVD version)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jude Law reads to Nina Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Jude Law plays Karenin the eponymous heroine's husband in Joe Wright's upcoming film, Anna Karenina.

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Goofs

Jude Law has a very obvious and pronounced cleft in his chin. The young actor who plays Danny as a child has a perfectly smooth chin. This is particularly glaring when the scene goes from a close up of the boy's face directly to a close up of Jude Law as the adult Danny.

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Quotes

[On what love is like]
Danny: You know how when you're listening to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway... then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again you're still in exact same time with it. That's what it's like.

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Connections

Referenced in Forever Mine (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Solamente Una Llucion"
Written by Andrew Milukoff and Victor Bisetti
Performed by Andrew Milukoff, Victor Bisetti, Joe Rotondi, Michael Tovar, David Lopez and Johnny Crespo
Courtesy of Eden Entertainment

User Reviews

Flawed and incoherent

"Music From Another Room" is an interesting title. It doesn't make any sense until you see the film in which the phrase is part of a slightly silly metaphor about the nature of love. However, the title actually made me watch the film, along with the promise of well-known actors Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly and Brenda Blethyn.

The film is funny at times and lovable in the way we expect from romantic comedies - the opening scenes of young Danny's participation in a baby's birth is a good example, full of sweetness and humanity from Brenda Blethyn and young actor Cory Buck.

But this is basically not a very good film. The major problem is in the directing and the editing which are without elegance and with plenty of flaws. Too many parts of the film are unfunny. A large part of the latter half of the film is strained and repetitive. The intended mixture of sadness and joy is handled too unoriginally to be anything but indecision.

On top, the storyline is incoherent: Danny's immediate crush on a girl he hasn't seen since her birth is not backed by anything other than Gretchen Mol's nice, but perhaps rather bland appearance. For the most part, the character is described as a closed and slightly dull personality, and Mol plays it with a stiffness to match.

Jude Law is a splendid talent but his part much too romanticized and fundamentally uninteresting. Jennifer Tilly plays a blind girl who is provoked into experiencing life more than she has; she is good, but not excellent. In the end my favorite actors here are Brenda Blethyn and Jane Adams, both in fairly small parts.