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Review: Did You Hear About the Morgans?
5 hours ago
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It’s nice to see a romantic comedy full of clichés with a predictable end for a change! In the current times of economic instability – there are more and more films with no happy endings. “Did you hear about the Morgans?” is not like that – it’s so predictable that you feel like you may have seen ten times before! And you’re probably right as writer/director Marc Lawrence has previously written /directed films like “Two Weeks Motice”, “Music and Lyrics” and “Miss Congeniality”.
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are Paul and Meryl Morgan – a highly successful but estranged Manhattan couple who are relocated under the FBI’s witness relocation program to a small town in Wyoming after witnessing a murder by a professional killer. In Wyoming, the couple are taken in by married U.S. Marshals Clay and Emma Wheeler (played by Sam Elliot and Mary Steenburgen) who
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- David Sztypuljak
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? They're bad news for marriage
9 hours ago
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Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker's celebration of wedded love won't do much to cut the divorce rate
Marriage is on the rocks: nowadays, divorce lies in store for nearly half of Britain's newlyweds. Doomsters warn that social stability is threatened. Cameron reckons something must be done, and Brown seems to be following suit. Still, never mind about them. What does Hollywood think?
In the past, movies have provided much dutiful support for the joys of wedlock, yet they've also exploited its mounting troubles. The likes of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The War of the Roses and Revolutionary Road can't have done much to enhance its appeal. Did You Hear About the Morgans? could be seen as a would-be act of atonement for affronts such as these.
Director Marc Lawrence has moved on from romcoms such as Two Weeks Notice and Music and Lyrics to parachute his time-honoured
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- David Cox
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