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Summary: Love this movie!
Review: I've watched this movie soooooo many times. Looked everywhere for the DVD version, and finally found it here. This movie is funny, cute, and touching.
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Summary: Gives romantic comedies a bad name.
Review: It's no surprise that "'Til There Was You," the feature film directorial debut of television director Scott Winant, ends up feeling like a two-hour special episode of a sitcom. While the movie tries to pull off a predictable and ridiculous plot by forcing us into the lives of two people meant to fall in love more than 20 years after they initially meet, it only serves to show us just how uninvolving and dreary their lives are, until we are so starved for something, ANYTHING, to happen that we wish they would just get it on and be done with it. It doesn't help the movie that the beginning is a mess, and as it plods on, the script does little more than add insult to injury. It opens with the lives of youngsters Gwen and Nick (played as adults by Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dylan McDermott): Gwen's mother is a controlling feminist who won't let her father finish a sentence, while Nick's father is a drunkard who won't find a decent job. Soon, they're all grown up, with fancy jobs they never seem to work at, and lives that are less than appealing. Gwen is a ghost writer who believes that everything in life will be picture perfect once she finds the right man for her, while Nick is an architect who has trouble with commitment to just about everything. How these two people could ever share a life together is beyond me, but the movie will spend its entire proving me wrong, changing their lives in ways you won't want to bear witness to without a sedative on hand. If this weren't enough to completely bore someone to tears, the plot hook takes almost an hour to arrive, centering around an apartment building known as La Fortuna, which is owned by former child star Francesca (Sarah Jessica Parker), who played the role of Taffy in the 60's sitcom "On Big Happy Family" (looks strangely akin to "The Brady Bunch," only cornier). The building is the only structure standing in the way of a larger complex helmed by Nick's company; of course, Nick falls for her charms, lands her a big deal, and they fall in love, right about the same time that Gwen moves into La Fortuna and becomes acquainted with all of her neighbors. There are forces at work in this film you would not believe, predictability topping the list. Here is a movie that virtually goes nowhere, choosing to take the weary, well-worn paths of so many romantic comedies before it that there is no plot twist or story line we don't see coming at least half an hour before it appears. Much of the movie feels slapped together, with certain scenes that have no impact on the overall plot other than to add to the already-lengthy running time. One doesn't even get the feeling that there is an attempt being made to stitch something plausible together amidst the dreck, and that's something that could give it the push it so desperately needed. The attempts at romance and comedy are listless and unremarkable. Winant wastes no time in making Gwen out to be little more than a hopeless romantic, as well as a hopeless idiot, who is prone to running into things, losing her balance and falling into various people, causing accidents, losing her line of thought, etc. The film wastes Tripplehorn, as well as McDermott, who's character is a typical man who sees the light at the end of the tunnel, though there's not a minute of believable emotion present. Even Parker can't save the day, her sluttish blonde bimbo coming off as tawdry but evoking little humor. For those who enjoy films with no sense, and like knowing how it will all turn out, then this movie will no doubt rank as a winner. Anyone else will find themselves drowning in one of the most insipid, ludicrous, and monotonously ongoing gab fests they've ever encountered. It's a standard, run-of-the-mill waste of talent and money; the fact of the matter is, 'til there was "'Til There Was You," romantic comedies actually had a good name.
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Summary: Gives romantic comedies a bad name.
Review: It's no surprise that "'Til There Was You," the feature film directorial debut of television director Scott Winant, ends up feeling like a two-hour special episode of a sitcom. While the movie tries to pull off a predictable and ridiculous plot by forcing us into the lives of two people meant to fall in love more than 20 years after they initially meet, it only serves to show us just how uninvolving and dreary their lives are, until we are so starved for something, ANYTHING, to happen that we wish they would just get it on and be done with it. It doesn't help the movie that the beginning is a mess, and as it plods on, the script does little more than add insult to injury. It opens with the lives of youngsters Gwen and Nick (played as adults by Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dylan McDermott): Gwen's mother is a controlling feminist who won't let her father finish a sentence, while Nick's father is a drunkard who won't find a decent job. Soon, they're all grown up, with fancy jobs they never seem to work at, and lives that are less than appealing. Gwen is a ghost writer who believes that everything in life will be picture perfect once she finds the right man for her, while Nick is an architect who has trouble with commitment to just about everything. How these two people could ever share a life together is beyond me, but the movie will spend its entire proving me wrong, changing their lives in ways you won't want to bear witness to without a sedative on hand. If this weren't enough to completely bore someone to tears, the plot hook takes almost an hour to arrive, centering around an apartment building known as La Fortuna, which is owned by former child star Francesca (Sarah Jessica Parker), who played the role of Taffy in the 60's sitcom "On Big Happy Family" (looks strangely akin to "The Brady Bunch," only cornier). The building is the only structure standing in the way of a larger complex helmed by Nick's company; of course, Nick falls for her charms, lands her a big deal, and they fall in love, right about the same time that Gwen moves into La Fortuna and becomes acquainted with all of her neighbors. There are forces at work in this film you would not believe, predictability topping the list. Here is a movie that virtually goes nowhere, choosing to take the weary, well-worn paths of so many romantic comedies before it that there is no plot twist or story line we don't see coming at least half an hour before it appears. Much of the movie feels slapped together, with certain scenes that have no impact on the overall plot other than to add to the already-lengthy running time. One doesn't even get the feeling that there is an attempt being made to stitch something plausible together amidst the dreck, and that's something that could give it the push it so desperately needed. The attempts at romance and comedy are listless and unremarkable. Winant wastes no time in making Gwen out to be little more than a hopeless romantic, as well as a hopeless idiot, who is prone to running into things, losing her balance and falling into various people, causing accidents, losing her line of thought, etc. The film wastes Tripplehorn, as well as McDermott, who's character is a typical man who sees the light at the end of the tunnel, though there's not a minute of believable emotion present. Even Parker can't save the day, her sluttish blonde bimbo coming off as tawdry but evoking little humor. For those who enjoy films with no sense, and like knowing how it will all turn out, then this movie will no doubt rank as a winner. Anyone else will find themselves drowning in one of the most insipid, ludicrous, and monotonously ongoing gab fests they've ever encountered. It's a standard, run-of-the-mill waste of talent and money; the fact of the matter is, 'til there was "'Til There Was You," romantic comedies actually had a good name.
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Summary: Delightful and subtle, O. Henry twists, vastly underrated
Review: Stories intertwine through our lives, around life events, past our passions, and a few stories themselves remind us of this. "'Til There Was You" makes this self-conscious storytelling into a delightful journey. Two journeys, in fact, because it takes the title literally. Two fascinating people (writer Jeanne Tripplehorn, architect Dylan McDermott) are shown growing up and constantly seeking passion and connection in their lives, but finding no way to hold on to either. When a bit of serendipity comes along, they both are transformed: An historic and almost otherworldly Los Angeles apartment house shows magic and belonging to her, substance and commitment to him. The ironies lie in her defending it in anonymous letters, his falling in love with the letters while designing the building's replacement, the building being owned by his lover, whose book is being ghostwritten by ... but you may get the idea. The writer and the architect are woven together by ties and resonances they cannot imagine, and yet they've never even (formally) met. It's a rich, intricate, hilarious, and wry screenplay, written by a principal writer of "thirtysomething" and writer/creator of "My So-Called Life." The acting is touching and passionate, especially when one realizes that it's two connecting love stories -- about learning to love and respect yourself, before you can find the serendipities of life. This isn't a conventional romantic comedy or drama. The couple isn't what is important here. The individuals are. In "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand wrote: "To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I.'" These characters don't know, at first, but they're open to life, and they find out, playing with and against friends, neighbors, and lovers. Their journey is what will enthrall you. The ending almost doesn't matter. Buy this and give it your full attention. You will be rewarded!
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Summary: As vacuous as life in LA
Review: Stupid enough to become a cult classic. The movie climax: the child star breaks off her romantic relationship explaining, "What's the point anyway? Eventually they cancel the tv series." Just a bit of LA wisdom.
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Summary: Worst movie I have ever seen
Review: There are so many things wrong with this movie it is hard to know where to start. The sub-plot where the characters are attempting to preserve the historic apartment complex is resolved in the most unsatisfying way possible. The heroine's parents' story is also cringe worthy. The movie seems to be both promoting and simultaneously mocking the notion of a "one true love" that makes everything else meaningless. It does not pull it off and instead seems merely ridiculous. Run if you see this movie coming!
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Summary: YUCK
Review: There are so many things wrong with this movie it is hard to know where to start. The sub-plot where the characters are attempting to preserve the historic apartment complex is resolved in the most unsatisfying way possible. The heroine's parents' story is also cringe worthy. The movie seems to be both promoting and simultaneously mocking the notion of a "one true love" that makes everything else meaningless. It does not pull it off and instead seems merely ridiculous. Run if you see this movie coming!
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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: This is a really great movie which is hard to find these days.
Yes, it's a "chick flick", but it doesn't have the sex, nudity and unneeded scenes in alot of movies out there.
It's a classic romance but it also makes us think about life in the big picture and how everything relates to everything else in the world.
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Summary: A Great Chick Flick on The Necessity of "Finding Your Voice"
Review: This is one of my most favorite movies of all time because of it's subtle message of the importance and necessity in having to honestly define yourself before you can accept love in to your life. The restaurant scenes are a riot. I laughed until I cried. The depiction of how women and men view relationships and most things differently and how people bring their beliefs from their family of origin in to their relationships is also well done. This is a funny, gentle, yet realistic depiction of the the types of speed bumps everyone gets to encounter in relationships. Great food for thought.
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Summary: I absolutely love this movie
Review: This is one of the funniest comedies I've seen in a long time. I loved it so much I went looking for it everywhere and eventually had to buy it online! It has Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott (hottie), and Sarah Jessica Parker, who are all absolutely fabulous!
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