Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Santiago Cabrera

An American intern at U.K. Vogue helps her friends find love.

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Alek Keshishian

Release Date: September 9, 2006

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DVD Release Date: June 17, 2008

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  • September 26, 2009
    Extremely fun and light and entertaining. I loved the characters (even the secondary ones) and I loved the style and noir-like deliverance. Matthew Rhys amazing as always and Brittany Murphy...well this role suits her perfectly. The movie is quirky, relaxed, fully engaging and on...( read more)e I wouldn't mind watching again. I'm not at all a fan of romantic comedies, but I'm currently making an exception. My biggest criticism would be the slight predictability and the accents which were fully American some parts of the movie, fully British at others, and a mix of American and British the rest of the time. Maybe they should have just settled for one of all. Other than that - great fun!
  • April 22, 2009
    I like Brittany Murphy. I think she is very pretty and a good actress. However, I am not a fan of Brittany Murphy acting like Audrey Hepburn, with a fake British accent.
    Love and Other Disasters is a romantic comedy, that although some what amusing, it has really nothing else to...( read more) offer.
    The whole straight girl falls for the gay guy, straight girl mistakes straight guy for gay guy, has been done about a million and seven times.
    If you think of Three To Tango, The Object Of My Affection, or The Next Best Thing and add in mediocre acting and a bad English accent, you will have this movie in a nutshell.
  • March 20, 2009
    Proving that America doesn't exactly have control over the formulaic rom-com game, we have this offering from the UK. And I think they should take it back.

    The film contains two big problems: the first is that it's utterly boring. I sat there hoping for something different to ha...( read more)ppen, different to films before it, and was treated to nothing spectacular. I wasn't riding on this to be the film that revolutionized the genre but I expected something to happen. But no, just lots of supporting characters musing on love, getting into stupid situations and then finding love (oh wow, big spoiler there. Please note sarcasm).

    The other comes from the lead character. Making her an American over in the U.K just doesn't make any sense to me and smells more like an attempt to get Americans to watch this. Apparently, it's up to the American girl to help her friends find love, as if to imply they run around like headless chickens because they're incapable of doing things for themselves. And let's not forget, she herself is without a boyfriend for most of the film. It's hard to find love for others if you don't have it yourself.
    I don't really want to attack Brittany Murphy for this choice in movie, as it's finally nice to see her do something different and light hearted (Spun, The Dead Girl, Riding With Boys In Cars, Sin City, all playing troubled characters to some degree.) Yet her attempts at an English accent are horrible and the fact that she swaps between English and American only drag the film down.

    I don't know, maybe after Four Weddings And A Funeral I was expecting potential from non-American filming. Would it have killed them to put a little more effort in?
  • August 25, 2008
    Brittany Murphy plays Emily Jackson ("Jacks" for short), a young bright eyed woman who works at British Vogue. Jacks dresses like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex And The City, and lives with her gay best friend. She's dating her ex more out of convenience than anything else; meanwhile, ...( read more)her gay roommate pines for impossible fantasies that can never come true. One is too practical, and the other is a dreamer. Brittany Murphy can't hold an English accent to save her life, but she is cute as a button with a great sense of comedy. She's been flailing her entire career to find the right vehicle, and this one could have been it if it had been more widely released. Matthew Rhys is simply adorable as her gay best friend, and British television star Catherine Tate (Bleak House) has a great go as the acid tongued drugged out female best friend. Cameo appearances by a pair of bonafide stars towards the film's conclusion leaves the film with an upbeat and feel-good vibe, and it seems likely that Love and Other Disasters is destined to join the ranks of other set-in-London romantic comedies.
  • June 22, 2008
    its alright
  • October 6, 2009
    I really liked this movie fore the most part, I thought that it was quite sweet and charming but the ending completely ruined it for me.
  • August 15, 2009
    i love this movie so funny
  • August 7, 2009
    I didnt get the whole point of the film....finding true love or finding the right one for you?

    whatever it was it was not made for me.dont think I'd recommend this to any one.

    well to anyone who wants to see brittany murphy scantily clad or almost nude...go for it.
  • July 31, 2009
    "I don't want to be one of those awful characters out of a movie that gushes out their past while violins play."

    Just another chick flick, more fun and cute² than most of romantic movies, really good to watch.
    The cast is good, I really Brittany Murphy, s...( read more)he's so cute *-*...
    It makes you laugh a lot. Not the best movie ever, but i could watch again and again. :D
  • July 22, 2009
    This movie was made well...but it was slow to watch. Brittany Murphy was beautiful as usual. It was weird to see the Cameo's of two famous people in the ending....I did like the love story....If you can handle sitting through a slow chick flick - its for you. Also, the fashion in...( read more) this was beautiful (Brittany Murphy's wardrobe)...Loved it. Very Breakfast at Tiffany's. Very 60's edge to it all.

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