After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Director:
Anne Fletcher
Stars:
Katherine Heigl,
James Marsden,
Malin Akerman
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend.
Director:
Dennis Dugan
Stars:
Adam Sandler,
Jennifer Aniston,
Brooklyn Decker
The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but she meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates.Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sasha Alexander played Jennifer Aniston's sister in this film. She also guest-starred on an episode of Friends (1994) during season eight. Alexander also guest-starred in season four of Dawson's Creek (1998), one year before Busy Phillips joined the cast. See more »
Goofs
In Gigi's yoga class, the instructor tells them to go into "upward facing dog", but they go into "cobra". See more »
Quotes
Gigi:
Hey Conor, It's GiGi, I just thought that I hadn't heard from you, and I mean how stupid is it taht a girl has to wait for a guy's call anyway, right? Cause we're all equal right? more than equal. more women are accepted into law school now then men. Call me, oh this is GiGi, call me.
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Madly
Written by Tristan Prettyman and Kevin Griffin
Performed by Tristan Prettyman
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music See more »
Transversal to wide audience popular comedies (Love Actually), to serious bankable work (like Babel), to author films (like Almodóvar), there is has been a growing tendency to invest the film world with a certain idea of tiny links that bind people beyond their understanding. The idea that we are all connected with heavier or lighter degrees of intensity to many people we don't know. Other than having any kind of God above us to control us and decide our fate, the divinity in this world is coincidence. Random unpredictable actions drive our lives, like Johanson winning the supermarket prize because the other guy let her go first. The narrative result is that these constructions make us, audiences, be the charters of unknown territories, since we always see whatever new connection comes up (many times things the characters themselves are not aware of) but we are also constantly finding out new things. It's a strategy rich and full of possibilities.
I like the mold, i like this kind of construction, because it allows for infinite dramatic possibilities, and mastered well it may (and has) become a sort of neo-neo-noir, where we move steps further in throwing characters into unthinkable situations. From that perspective, of the narrative construction, this is not a specially interesting example. All the links exist here to justify the presence of so many different characters, without that meaning that they will be confronted, later in the game, with those links we get to know. Instead it works here as a way to weave at us several different stories, which don't have to be necessarily connected or connectible. It's like an exhibition on relationships or, in this case, seduction skills.
The story in itself is about empty lives, looking for emotional fulfillment, here represented by having a boy/girlfriend. The ultimate example is the life of the very girl who narrates us the story, arguably the one who is more lost, and certainly the one who more desperately seeks the "other half". All the affairs are distinguished in how the character faces them, and in they outcome, from the narrator girl who as the popcorn selling affair, to Johanson, who willingly decides to be alone.
It's shallow and not particularly interesting, but i like the coherence between the not so interesting lives we have here.
My opinion: 3/5
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Transversal to wide audience popular comedies (Love Actually), to serious bankable work (like Babel), to author films (like Almodóvar), there is has been a growing tendency to invest the film world with a certain idea of tiny links that bind people beyond their understanding. The idea that we are all connected with heavier or lighter degrees of intensity to many people we don't know. Other than having any kind of God above us to control us and decide our fate, the divinity in this world is coincidence. Random unpredictable actions drive our lives, like Johanson winning the supermarket prize because the other guy let her go first. The narrative result is that these constructions make us, audiences, be the charters of unknown territories, since we always see whatever new connection comes up (many times things the characters themselves are not aware of) but we are also constantly finding out new things. It's a strategy rich and full of possibilities.
I like the mold, i like this kind of construction, because it allows for infinite dramatic possibilities, and mastered well it may (and has) become a sort of neo-neo-noir, where we move steps further in throwing characters into unthinkable situations. From that perspective, of the narrative construction, this is not a specially interesting example. All the links exist here to justify the presence of so many different characters, without that meaning that they will be confronted, later in the game, with those links we get to know. Instead it works here as a way to weave at us several different stories, which don't have to be necessarily connected or connectible. It's like an exhibition on relationships or, in this case, seduction skills.
The story in itself is about empty lives, looking for emotional fulfillment, here represented by having a boy/girlfriend. The ultimate example is the life of the very girl who narrates us the story, arguably the one who is more lost, and certainly the one who more desperately seeks the "other half". All the affairs are distinguished in how the character faces them, and in they outcome, from the narrator girl who as the popcorn selling affair, to Johanson, who willingly decides to be alone.
It's shallow and not particularly interesting, but i like the coherence between the not so interesting lives we have here.
My opinion: 3/5
http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com