Famke Janssen plays Kate a journalist who looks back on her romantic past while trying to meet a deadline on an article concerning romance. Jon Favreau plays Adam a struggling artist who plays Kate's love interest. There's a weird chemistry between the two principals in this movie, that works. The only flaw is that it gets a little formulaic toward the end.
4. Hav Plenty (1997)
The title is a play on the two lead characters names, Havilland Savage (Chenoa Maxwell) and Lee Plenty (writer/director Chris Scott Cherot). She's rich, haughty, and cursed with a mercurial temperament. He's broke, humble to the point of self- deprecation, and affable. It all starts New Year's Eve when a dateless Havilland (after breaking up with her cheating boyfriend), invites Lee to make the drive from New York to Washington D.C. to act as her companion for the evening. Lee's one-night stay in D.C. lengthens into a several-days vacation, and, during the course of his time there, he is hit on by both the unattached Caroline (Havilland's best friend) and the newly-married Leigh (Havilland's sister). Regardless of how attracted he is to the women, Lee rebuffs their advances, because he's in love with Havilland but he really doesn't know it. This movie acts on the old formula of opposites attract. It's disappointing that Chris Cherot hasn't done anything worthy of note since.
3. Loving Jezebel (1999)
This movie is the story of my life (more or less). It's the story of a guy who always ends up falling for the wrong woman. Hill Harper plays the charmingly dorky Theodorous Melville. Theo has a problem, he keeps falling in love with the wrong women--most often, his friends' girlfriends. Barely surviving college, where he slept with the girlfriend of the football team's star running back, Theodorus eventually settles in New York City with his best friend, whose gorgeous Trinidadian girlfriend, Mona (Sandrine Holt), can't hide her attraction for him. Meanwhile, Theodorus is in the midst of a passionate affair with Frances (Nicole Ari Parker),whose mental stability is questionable. Working as a waiter in a coffee shop, Theodorus befriends the bumbling Samantha (Laurel Holloman), a sweet-natured woman who is married to Gabe (David Moscow), a walking time bomb.
2. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
John Cusack plays a contract killer who's going through the 30-something mid-life crisis. After botching up a hit in Florida his secretary (played by his sister Joan) gives him the message that his 10 year HS reunion is coming up. At first he doesn't want to go but then he gets an job (to make up for the botched hit) in his hometown. He makes the pilgramige back to Grosse Pointe and catches up with his former girlfriend (Minne Driver) whom he stood up at the prom. Somewhere in there he gains a new respect for human life.
1. Lost in Translation (2003)
Bill Murray is brilliant in this movie. The story of two ships passing in the night has been done many times in cinema but there's something about this movie that takes it to another level. You can see that these two people love each other and you know both are aware of the obvious unspoken obstacles in their way. But regardless of the obvious age difference they "get" each other. You can tell by a look he gives her or a glance she gives him.
1 comment:
What happened to Prizzi's Honor,War of the Roses and Jungle Fever?
Those movies should have been on the list.
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