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Music from Another Room
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Overview

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Charlie Peters (written by)
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Release Date:
12 November 1998 (Australia) more
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Plot:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jude Law ... Danny

Jennifer Tilly ... Nina Swan

Gretchen Mol ... Anna Swan

Martha Plimpton ... Karen Swan

Brenda Blethyn ... Grace Swan

Jon Tenney ... Eric

Jeremy Piven ... Billy Swan

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
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Rated PG-13 for sexuality and language.
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104 min
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Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 (certificate #35524) | France:U | Singapore:PG

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All of the Swan sisters' names derive from "Anna Karenina" - Anna, Karen and Nina. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Anna is born, she is quickly wrapped in a blanket and handed to her mother. As her mother holds her you can see the disposable diaper where the blanket slipped down. more
Quotes:
Danny: [chasing after Anna in a taxi, wearing his pig costume] I would marry you tomorrow! I would have children with you, dozens and dozens of children!
Taxi Driver: Let's hope they look like the mother.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Forever Mine (1999) more
Soundtrack:
Solamente Una Llucion more

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Amusing and well-acted, 29 December 2000
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Author: Kim Smeby (kismeby@online.no) from Oslo, Norway

Music From Another Room is the story of Danny (Jude Law), returning to his US hometown after spending over 20 years in England with his father, who has now passed away. By coincidence, he runs into the Swan family, who his father and himself used to be acquainted with, and especially one of the daughters, the beautiful Anna (Gretchen Mol), catches his attention. Before Danny moved to England, he helped setting Anna to this world by removing the chord that was twisted around her neck during her birth, and at that point, he exclaimed a wish to marry her someday...

This is first of all a romantic comedy, with Danny's chase for Anna as the main plot, and quite a lot of interesting sub-plots and characters. It is most enjoyable, and in the end a real feel-good movie. The script is intelligent, and at times, extremely funny. Especially Danny's landlord, Mr. Klammer, has got some killer lines early on.

The acting is also excellent. Jude Law is his usual self, well-acting and beautiful, Brenda Blethyn can do no wrong on the screen, it seems, and Gretchen Mol shows that she is more than just a pretty face. But the real stand-out performance is Jennifer Tilly as the blind sister Nina...I'm really wondering when she's going to go get the recognition she obviously deserves... A great cast all together.

The film has a few flaws, the most notable being a rather predictable story, but excellent acting and witty writing more than make up for that. Overall, Music From Another Room is a highly recommendable romantic comedy, far better than most straight-on-video stuff.

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