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Summary: A lovely movie
Review: I have watched The Object of My Affection numerous times (they're always running it on the ABC Family Channel), and I have yet to tire of it. It is sweet, touching, funny, and well performed.Jennifer Aniston is perfectly cast as the lead character, Nina Borowski, and gives an excellent performance that making the viewer feel what she's feeling. Paul Rudd, as her roommate and eventual love interest, is very appealing too. (In my opinion, he doesn't really seem gay, but then again he doesn't really need to. As long as the viewer just accepts the fact that he IS, it works.) John Pankow is great as Nina's irritating boyfriend, Vince. And of course, Nigel Hawthorne does a wonderful job as Rodney. Big surprise. The best scene in the film is a scene where Nina's overbearing sister, Constance (Allison Janney), descends on Nina and George along with her equally annoying husband (Alan Alda) and daughter (Lauren Pratt). It is so funny, and so well acted. All in all, The Object Of My Affection rates five stars in my book. Granted, there are some clunky bits in the script (as mentioned in the editorial review), and some bits that require suspension of belief. But those things are easy to ignore, and more than likely, you'll want to watch this film over and over again.
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Summary: Makes you want to Laugh and Cry at once.
Review: When I rented this movie, I thought "Ah a Jennifer Aniston movie...she's gonna play the shallow but nice girl, gonna meet a guy...etc." In other words: Boy meets girl, girl likes guy, guy likes girl. Girl's confused, guy goes off, girl is sad, they come back together and that's the end. I was very off base. This is a sweet romantic dramedy (comedy/drama) that makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time. Paul Rudd plays a gay school teacher, who (after finding out his current relationship is over) moves in with his new friend (Aniston). When she discovers that she is pregnant, she decides that she wants Rudd to be the father figure for the child...which is not what her boyfriend wants. This intricate story is so delicately done, that (unlike most movies) it seems to be glass. The supporting characters are wonderfully lovable/loathsome. No revelations seem too spontaneous, but are eased into, making it a lovely and enjoyable film. One of those movies that makes you want to be in the characters world and shout "YOU SHOULD BE TOGETHER!" I highly recommend that you add it to your collection, you will not regret it.
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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: I didn't think I could watch a movie about a straight woman who fell in love with a gay man without a lot of cynical and not-politically-correct comments. I mean, I've seen too much of it.
But when I watched this movie, what struck me was not the sexual orientation of the characters, but the age-old bittersweet heartbreak of unrequited love. And that is what comes bleeding through in this movie. Jennifer Anniston is a very lovely young woman who has a penchant for falling for men who aren't right for her. (Fear of commitment?) When handsome, sensitive Paul Rudd (who just happens to be a sensational dancer) comes into her life, it just figures she'll veer towards him instead of her doting but domineering boyfriend (a great supporting character in a movie full of great supporting characters). He is gay, but is clearly troubled by an attraction that just doesn't seem to fit his lifestyle (as is she). These two really love one another, but can't make it work. And is that really all so strange, in the gay OR straight world? Not at all. The dance scenes, to the Gene Kelley movie, are lovely and lyrical. I say BAH! to all the gay reviewers out there who said this movie almost said something, but didn't. They're reading too much into it. It's about unrequited love, pure and complicated. Just look at Nina's (Jennifer's) face as she tells George she wants to marry him, that she wants him to want her just as she wants him. That's enough to make you cry.
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Summary: Presents Some Moments of Affection
Review: This movie starts as an hip romantic comedy, turns into a serious drama, becomes melodramatic and soap opera-ish, gets into comedy territory again for a while and finally delivers a contrived and slightly unrealistic Hollywood ending. "The Object of My Affection" has as many twists and turns as a rollercoaster ride, switching and redefining the status quo a thousand times. Some moments are genuine and heartfeld, others have a sitcom humorous feel and at times it gets overboard with high levels of sugar and sappyness. The story is about the relationship between two young adults, a gay teacher (Paul Rudd) and a modern NY girl (Jennifer Aniston). Beginning as a tight friendship, their connection then appears to turn into something more deep, and from this point on the plot delivers a lot of subplots and new characters. The acting is overall good and the movie tries to touch some serious issues, but unfortunately the story is so contrived that the result is just uneven and not very impressive. The pacing isn`t the best as well, delivering a lot of slow and dull moments that go nowhere. Despite these flaws, "The Object of My Affection" still has some entertainment value and a couple of interesting scenes, even if it`s just another average movie.
With a few improvements this material could rise a bit and become more remarkable, but as it is it`s not too good neither too bad. Watchable enough.
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Summary: A Funny, Touching Movie
Review: Jennifer Aniston stars as Nina, a social worker who invites a recently dumped gay friend (Paul Rudd) to move in with her while he gets back on his feet. George and Nina begin to bond during late-night talks over big bowls of ice cream, and soon Nina realizes she's falling in love with him, despite the fact that he's gay and she has a boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow). Nina breaks up with Vince, but soon discovers she is pregnant. Instead of telling Vince, Nina asks George to help her raise the baby. George cares deeply for Nina and agrees, but as time passes, he realizes that he needs to see men again. He attends a conference with his former lover Robert (Tim Daly), where he runs into old friend Rodney (Nigel Hawthorne) and his new boytoy, Paul (Amo Gulinello). Paul and George immediately hit it off and begin a relationship, much to Nina's dismay. Can they all find love and happiness, or will they find themselves alone in the end? This movie was one of the first gay-themed movies I ever saw. I remember crying my way through it because I wasn't out yet and it touched something inside me. This movie played a big part in my decision to come out. I made all my friends watch it and gauged their reaction. The story of the relationship between George and Nina helped me explain about being gay. Aside from its educational uses, the movie is a wonderfully written and acted story. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd have a real chemistry and the story is unflinchingly realistic. Recommended.
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Summary: Makes you want to Laugh and Cry at once.
Review: When I rented this movie, I thought "Ah a Jennifer Aniston movie...she's gonna play the shallow but nice girl, gonna meet a guy...etc." In other words: Boy meets girl, girl likes guy, guy likes girl. Girl's confused, guy goes off, girl is sad, they come back together and that's the end. I was very off base. This is a sweet romantic dramedy (comedy/drama) that makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time. Paul Rudd plays a gay school teacher, who (after finding out his current relationship is over) moves in with his new friend (Aniston). When she discovers that she is pregnant, she decides that she wants Rudd to be the father figure for the child...which is not what her boyfriend wants. This intricate story is so delicately done, that (unlike most movies) it seems to be glass. The supporting characters are wonderfully lovable/loathsome. No revelations seem too spontaneous, but are eased into, making it a lovely and enjoyable film. One of those movies that makes you want to be in the characters world and shout "YOU SHOULD BE TOGETHER!" I highly recommend that you add it to your collection, you will not regret it.
Rating:
Summary: A must see
Review: This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I watched this one over and over again and I can't get enough of it. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are just adorable, the ( gay themed) story is magnificient,there is a great balance between comedy and tragedy, everything in this movie is worth the five stars.
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Summary: Jen at her best
Review: This movie is my movie from Ms.Jennifer. She does such a great job I just love this movie and no one can out do Jen. I love the movie so much I'm out of words for it, it's that good you don't believe me watch it yourself.
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Summary: If You Liked this Movie, You Might Want to Read the Book
Review: What most of you probably don't know is that this movie is "very loosely" based on a book by Stephen McCauley. In other words the book and the movie are very very different. I watched the movie first and liked it because I thought it was fairly original in that it was very different from any other romantic comedy I had ever seen before. It was only by complete accident that I later found out that this movie was inspired by a book. After reading the book, I went back and re-watched the movie, and thought to myself, this movie is an absolute insult to McCauley's book. The thing that I am most upset at the movie for is having Nina fall in love with George, because THIS NEVER HAPPENS IN THE BOOK. In the book Nina and George only love each other as friends and Nina never tries to seduce George like she does in the movie. There are many other huge differences between the book and the movie. Like the fact that Paul, George's new love interest, is not an aspiring actor who lives with a critic named Rodney. In the book, Paul lives in a small town in Vermont and is the writer of the town's newspaper. He also has a son named Gabriel, whom he adopted from a country in either South or Central America. It is not until George meets Paul and Gabriel that he agrees to help Nina raise her baby. What is really funny is that so much time has passed between the time that Nina originally asked George to help her raise the baby and the time that he accepts her proposal that by the time he tells her he wants to help her she has begun to think that her idea was not a very good one in the first place. She grudgingly accepts his offer to help her with the baby and basically tells him that she really doesn't expect this to be a permanent situation. In the movie Constance is Nina's stepsister, and in the book Constance is a somewhat mutual friend of Nina and Joley's. Nina and George do meet at Constance's party, and Joley does tell Nina that George needs a new place to live before he ever tells George that they are breaking up. However, in the movie George and Joley have been together for 4 years, and in the book they have been together for less than a year. In the movie George's brother, Frank, lives in New York and they have a pretty good relationship with each other. In fact, George is Frank's best man in his wedding. In the book, Frank lives in Boston and invites George and Nina to the wedding hoping that he can pass off Nina as George's girlfriend so that his fiancee and her conservative family will not find out that his brother is gay. When George and Nina arrive in Boston and Frank finds out that she is pregnant and cannot hide that fact he becomes very upset and demands that George and Nina make up a story that they were secretly married because of the baby. This offends George and he ends up not even attending his brother's wedding. In the movie, Vince is the father of Nina's child and is extremely resentful of her relationship with George. In the book, Howard is the name of Nina's boyfriend and she does not even meet him until after George has moved into her apartment. Howard and George become good friends and after Nina breaks up with Howard, George often remarks about how much he misses having Howard come to visit them. George also spends a good bit of the time trying to get Nina and Howard back on speaking terms with each other because he does not like it that Nina wants to exclude Howard from the raising of his child. I really don't understand why the movie producers bother to base a movie on a book when they have absolutely no intention of staying true to the book in any significant way.
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Summary: A Movie that will touch you (specially if you're a woman)
Review: This is a great movie that touched me very deeply, because is not one of that moivies that you know what's gonna happend.
I'd liked very much the end of the movie because it's not what I wanted but it's a very intelligent end.
What makes the movie even better are the performances of Jennifer Aniston (of the hit sitcom 'Friends'), that makes you cry with her and Paul Rudd (of th 'Ciderhouse Rules') that makes the 'wrong' decision but you can't hate him, he's so lovely!
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