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Plot: Paul Schrader's Forever Mine tells a not-very-compelling, still-less-credible story of love, betrayal, and retribution. A cabana boy (Joseph Fiennes) at a Florida beach resort falls hard for a ...( read more read more... )gorgeous guest (Gretchen Mol) neglected by her wheeler-dealer husband (Ray Liotta). After a steamy nude scene and a sweet, barefoot date, Fiennes follows her home to New York and declares undying love. Mol, a good Catholic girl who reads Madame Bovary, confesses the affair to Liotta. Being shadier than she realizes, he arranges to have nasty things befall his rival. Cut to 14 years later (though in fact the movie has been shuffling time periods since the beginning): Fiennes, long presumed dead, resurfaces to lend his talents (he's become a master criminal) to the now thoroughly corrupt Liotta and see what his beloved is up to. Fiennes has a new name, and a scar on one side of his face, so neither recognizes him. You don't have a problem with that, do you?

Nonrecognition is always a tricky proposition in movies, but Forever Mine's problems don't end there. Fiennes, sans Shakespeare in Love beard and Bardlike charisma, doesn't begin to suggest a guy who'd inspire obsession. His costar's attempt at creating a soul sister to Emma Bovary is as underacted as it is underwritten, and Liotta's husband is just a lout, despite a desperate stab at giving him a virtually literary sensitivity regarding his romantic one-upping. You want a spellbinding Schrader movie about outré passion and literary mystery, look up The Comfort of Strangers. --Richard T. Jameson

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  • 1.0 Star
    MCT:
    July 29, 2008
    Forever Mine is one of those movies that you wish would be better then it is. (Hell the dude behind Taxi Driver is behind it) Instead it is a melodramatic overdone cliched mess.
    The characters are either far too whinny (Fiennes) or too big of a jerk (Liotta get a Scorsese script quick.) to get as interested or caring, the dialogue is so unintentionally hilarious it sounds like a 8 year old pretending to be serious. Simply put this is a huge mess and depressing to see how bad Paul Schrader's career has been since the early 80s.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 24, 2008
    If it wasn't for the great performances by the always wonderful Joseph Fiennes and Ray Liotta, this movie would be worthless. Even the love triangle, which we know happens every day around the world, is hard to believe.
  • Not Interested
    MCT:
    November 4, 2007
    Forever Mine tells a not-very-compelling, still-less-credible story of love, betrayal, and retribution.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 3, 2007
    Sorry, but I will forgive Joseph Fiennes anything. *sigh* After watching it twice, though, I was starting to get really annoyed with Gretchen Mol's character. I wanted her to get a backbone. To live all your life in misery just so you can get pedicures and drink expensive liquor...I wanted to slap her.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 1, 2007
    wow. love, lies, power and betrayal.wow.this 1 is strong especially when it brings u back to a special place and time.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 9, 2006
    Death to Joseph Fiennes' career. Which sucks, because his older brother is Ralph Fiennes, the greatest actor alive.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 19, 2006
    This movie is so bad it's good. I cannot stop watching this movie. It's like opening up a crappy romance novel.

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Paul Schrader
  • Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Art House & International, Drama, Comedy
  • Released: January 1, 1999
  • DVD Released: May 15, 2001

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