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Summary: Not the best
Review: If you're looking for a romantic comedy that will make you feel all warm inside, look elsewhere. This is a very depressing movie. The story centers on a pregnant woman who falls in love with a gay man. He has agreed to help raise her baby. They almost make love and then the phone rings. He leaves her to go off with his ex-boyfriend but still, she thinks he loves her the same way she loves him. While away, he falls in love with another man. He comes home and she's jealous. ...That's understandable because he can't change who he is. It was a very bad idea they had from the start. Still, there is a connection between them and in romantic comedies the audience wants to see them together in the end. ... Disappointing.
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Summary: garbage in,garbage out
Review: this is the worst piece of social garbage I've ever seen. I don't watch movies to be indoctrinated by a left wing liberal writer who choses to use this medium to spew her cultural views all over the rest of us. C'mon, an un-married woman gets pregnant by a cheating, self centered heterosexual male only to be rescued by a cute, caring and very gay man self centered man? The cute little, innocent and sensitive pregnant girl falls in love with the cute gay guy. But of course he's too gay to romantically fall for her. However, he does love her deeply as a person. Baby is born, grows into a cute little girl of 5 who is emotionally well balanced in every way. The mother has since fallen in love with a black man who she now lives with and everybody lives happily ever after. I think I'm going to throw up!!
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Summary: Actors do their best with implausible script
Review: Is it just me, or does every Hollywood film that has a main character who is gay fall into soap opera? And why do such films seem to go out of their way to offend no one, and as a result, prove unsatisfactory to all groups? These questions plagued me while watching "The Object of my Affection". It's actually a rather sweet film and seems at times to be heartfelt. There are parts that are quite funny. You might say that it succeeds on a sort of 'sit com' level. This would be fine, if it's creators didn't insist on touching on some very emotional issues, all of which they back away from in one of the most implausible happy endings in recent memory. Jennifer Anniston, of the smash hit TV series "Friends", plays Nina, a fairly sophisticated New York girl who's in love with an obnoxious Socialist. When she meets George, played by Paul Rudd, she's offers him her spare bedroom when she learns he's just been dumped by his boyfriend of four years. Nina and George develop a close friendship. The film's makers do a good job of depicting how this relationship develops by showing scenes in different seasons. Real friendships do, after all, take some time to develop. After a while Nina finds herself pregnant by her boyfriend, who is less than pleased by this development. George, who teaches first grade in a posh private school, adores children. Nina gets dumped by the boyfriend, and George agrees to be the surrogate father. All goes along nicely until Nina falls in love with George. What seemed on paper to be a good plot device nearly derails the film. I say this for two reasons. One is that informed people no longer attempt to change someone's sexual preference. If Nina had been naive, we could see her not knowing any better. But she's too worldly to think that changing George would work. The other reason is that this takes a hip comedy and smothers it in soap opera. Another failing is that George, while not boring, is a character so perfect that he's a candidate for sainthood. I think even the most bigoted viewer would have related better to him had he been just a little raunchy. There are some memorable supporting roles, including Alan Alda, as a literary agent, and Allison Janey as his social climbing wife are hysterical. These two take name dropping to new heights. The wonderful British actor, Niger Hawthorne, plays perhaps the most true to life character. An aging critic, he has allowed a young drama student to live with him. He is wise enough to know that the age difference makes a love affair impossible. Yet when the young student falls for George, you can see how painful it is for Hawthorne's character. The need to be loved does not diminish with age. Hawthorne gives the best and most poignant performance in the film. "The Object of my Affection" is in many ways a good movie. It cops out too many times to be a great one.
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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: Wow, I was so crushed at the end of this film. I ADORE the novel, by Stephen Mccauley and thought that Wendy Wasserstein would do his work justice. All that remains are that the characters are still named George and Nina and Nina is pregnant and wants George to help her raise the baby. Gone is Doran, the bane of George's existance at nursery school, and Paul isn't from Vermont, and his fiesty mother is gone also. In her place is Nigle Hawthorne, doing his damned best with a pointless character. Also, the wonderful Alison Janney is in here in a role that was also NOT in the book. Let's not even start about how they took poor downtrodden Howard and made him and obnoixious odious little man.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are perfectly cast and do their best to make something out of basically nothing. Shame on Ms. Wasserstein for her butchery to Mr. MCCauleys novel.
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Summary: 2 stars for Aniston, ZERO for movie
Review: In less than ten words: Straight girl falls in love with gay male roommate. Jennifer Aniston gives an emotional performance - she does a splendid job of making you really feel for her character Nina, who works with teens in a community center. This movie also features Alan Alda in a supporting role. Does Alan Alda ever shut up?!? Jeez! Furthermore, Paul Rudd's performance (as George the gay roommate) didn't have even a fraction as much emotion as Aniston's performance. The movie could've been MUCH shorter and it had a tad bit too much sugar and Alda is downright annoying.
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Summary: Fun and beautiful film
Review: The Object of My Affection is an extremely enjoyable movie. It's all star cast give top performances. Jennifer Aniston is exceptional. Her performance as Nina is warm and endearing. She displays a depth, softness and vulnerability previously unseen in her. You will enjoy spending time with these characters. Allison Janney as Nina's sister, and Steve Zahn as George's brother, are especially fun. A standout moment is when Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston dance at his brother's wedding. Broadway star Audra McDonald sings a sensational version of "You Were Meant for Me" with the band. The couple takes the spotlight on the dance floor with the moves they learned at Madame Reynolds' dance class. New York is beautifully and lovingly filmed throughout this movie. Very well done. The DVD picture and sound quality is great.
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Summary: SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR
Review: I`ve been every major character in this film. It really give some punches 2 most of us... The all-star-performances and sentimental(BUT GOOD) script and good direction makes this a reapeated treat...
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Summary: About time The Object Of My Affection comes to DVD
Review: The Object Of My Affection is a great Flick. I am so excited it's finally on DVD. This movie takes place in New York City with our former Twin Tower buildings as the beautiful backdrop. The movie is about a women named Nina (Jennifer Aniston) who falls in love with her roommate George (Paul Rudd), but there is one problem ... he is gay. George decides to move out and move in with Nina after his boyfriend Joley tells him he is seeing another guy. Nina who has a boyfriend finds herself falling in love with George and soon she finds out she is pregnant but decides she wants to raise the child with George instead. George finally starts to fall for Nina, but after a weekend trip with his x-boyfriend Joley, George soon finds himself falling for a guy named Paul, and soon there is a decision that forces George to decide between Nina and Paul. I know it sound like a too much drama, but this is a movie worth watching, I will not say anymore other than this is a Great movie that will make you laugh and bring tears to your eyes as well. Im glad to see The Object Of My Affection has made it to DVD. Buy it it is a great flick that breaks down the walls of sexuality as you can not choose who you can fall in love with, true love just happens. (...)
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Summary: A Thoroughly Pleasant Diversion
Review: I have to admit that this is a favorite movie of mine and I'm thrilled that it's finally coming to DVD. It's hardly challenging. It's not political. There's nothing outstanding about the filmmaking technique. It's simply a pleasant diversion, and as such, I enjoy it a great deal. And while it goes out of its way not to offend anyone, it does break some new ground in terms of mainstream Hollywood movies. The story centers around the friendship of a gay schoolteacher, George (Paul Rudd), who is dumped by his boyfriend. (...) It's a charming movie, with terrific performances throughout. Rudd and Anniston share terrific chemistry together. White is appropriately sleazy. Allison Janney and Alan Alda as Nina's sister and brother-in-law offer hilarious support. And Nigel Hawthorne as Paul's mentor, provides the movie with heart and soul. Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein adapts Stephen McCauley's novel, and the script is solid. Nicholas Hytner's direction is assured. The movie is filled with laughs and genuine emotion. The scene in the gym where Nina confronts Stephen packs incredible power. Some have complained that George is too perfect and too nice--that the filmmakers were so concerned about having the mainstream audience accept him as a character that they went out of his way to make him bland and inoffensive. There might be a little truth in that, but I think Rudd's performance makes the character feel genuine at all times. (...) However, the one thing that really pleases me about this movie is that it was the first mainstream Hollywood movie that allowed its gay character to be gay. (I exclude "Torch Song Trilogy" from this analysis as TST was about gay relationships.) Up to this point, gay characters were everybody's best friend or problem. Window dressing to offer witty banter or to show us how liberal our heterosexual leads were. The gay characters were only gay because we were told they were--they were never allowed to have a romance of their own. Their love lives were always non-existent. The fact that George not only meets another guy and dates him. They have a genuine romantic and sexual relationship, something that most mainstream Hollywood movies rarely addressed with their gay male characters, unless as a "problem." I have no idea what, if any extras, will be on the DVD. Frankly, I don't care. I'll be happy enough just to have it on DVD. But, once it has come out (as it were), I will revisit this review to discuss said extras (should there be some of note). If you like this movie, then I strongly recommend: "Trick", "The Broken Hearts Club", "Broadway Damage", "Just One Time", "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss", "Torch Song Trilogy", "9 to 5" (no gay content, but a very funny comedy), and (begrudgingly as it is not nearly as good as the other movies on this list as it is very coy about the homosexuality of its characters), "In & Out". Review (C)2001 Joe Edkin
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Summary: george peppard and audrey hepburn of the 1990s
Review: i will surprise no one if i said that i am gay and i like this movie; some part of my affection for this movie has to be the fact that rudd and aniston are unbearably cute in it; so sue me: i cannot disassociate myself from the on-screen presence of these two lookers; so much was i impressed by their chemistry that i likened their duo in the title of my review to that of peppard and hepburn in another favourite of mine (and of most gay men, i guess) "breakfast at tiffany's"; a note on the latter: if you bother to pick up the book of the same title (by truman capote, a gay man again) you will find quite the reverse stroy to that of "the object.." :a gay man in love with a woman; it is funny how no one has picked up on the fact that not only are gay men portrayed by straight actors in hollywood movies but these straight actors are VERY attractive whilst cast in the roles of VERY ordinary gay man, i.e. they are not playing some gay model or something like that; in real life i have NEVER seen a gay man even REMOTELY as attractive as rudd is in "the object..."; not to mention far more implausibe casting choices as Christian Campbell in "trick" and dean cain in "broken hearts club";
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