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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   2,539 votes
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Director:
Nick Hamm
Writer:
Peter Morgan (writer)
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Release Date:
8 May 1998 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Two's Company. Three's a Crowd. Four's a Disaster.
Plot:
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Cute and funny but "useless" more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Monica Potter ... Martha

Rufus Sewell ... Frank

Tom Hollander ... Daniel

Joseph Fiennes ... Laurence

Ray Winstone ... Pedersen
Debora Weston ... First Class Passenger
Jan Pearson ... Daniel's Senior Partner
Steven O'Donnell ... Male Information Official
Rebecca Craig ... Gillian - Female Information Official
Paul Bigley ... Black's Hotel Room Service
Geoffrey McGivern ... Travel Agent
Hamish Clark ... Icelandair Official

Lorelei King ... US Ground Stewardess

Steve Speirs ... Taxi Driver

Rob Brydon ... Bus Driver (as Robert Brydon)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Very Thought of You (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language.
Runtime:
88 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | France:U | Germany:6 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) | USA:R (original rating) | Brazil:14
Company:
Banshee more

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Goofs:
Continuity: When Lawrence and Martha stop to get a bite to eat on their way back to London from the airport, Lawrence is seen reclining on the hood of his car. In the first shot, there is nothing on the hood with him. In the next shot, there is a burger and a drink. more
Quotes:
[Making up after their fist fight]
Frank: This is what women feel like when they give birth.
Daniel: Yeah, except my hand kind of hurts.
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Halo more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Cute and funny but "useless", 19 February 2000
7/10
Author: Artêmis from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

I don't really know why I've written that this movie is useless. I think it's obvious that it won't change your mind or your life, won't make you cry or laugh (OK, you can smile sometimes), won't be successful, won't be anything. It's just a movie, an ordinary movie in such a competitive world.

Here in Brazil, a competitive place too, I went to one multiplex (I hope that's the name for these theatres with 7, 8, 9 (...) screens there) to watch "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (I'm really embarrassed now). Unfortunately, the movie was sold-out, I had already watched "The Sixth Sense" twice, I really didn't want to watch "Bowfinger", the teen-trash "American Pie" again, the horrible "End of Days", and the most horrible "Letters from a killer". So, I tried the unique "watch-able" movie there, the unique romance, the unique that still had some tickets in that competitive world: "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence".

The Brazilian name, "Mero Acaso" (in a free translation, Mere Chance or Pure Fate) is one good summary for this movie about one American woman that moves to England and, by fate, develop three relationships with three guys. These three guys are friends but they don't know that they're seeing the same woman. Interesting? Not very much.

In fact, the original title tells the story. I watched it without knowing that she would meet the three, so really enjoyed. It was relaxing, fast, cute, romantic but like films made for television. No big plot, no big camera moves, no big cast, no big musics, no big budget... (although some of the best movies I've ever seen were very cheap). And it had some awful stereotypes: the American girl was blond, feminist, modern, on (bad) fashion, colored, with a huge suitcase. The British guy was shy, out of fashion, polite, bla, bla, bla. It's perfect to watch at your house eating popcorn.

The truth is that I'm lucky. This movie is much better that "Teaching Mrs. Tingle", at least. Thanks God that we live in a competitive world!

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