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Love and Other Disasters

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Love and Other Disasters

Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Santiago Cabrera, Catherine Tate, Elliot Cowan

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

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  • rebvodka042099
    September 26, 2009
    rebvodka042099
    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!
  • jamilyn0276
    April 22, 2009
    jamilyn0276
    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.
  • Passenger1986
    March 20, 2009
    Passenger1986
    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?
  • StaisilD
    August 25, 2008
    StaisilD
    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.
  • franktowers
    June 22, 2008
    franktowers
    its alright
  • daneanwar
    December 25, 2009
    daneanwar
    Brittany Murphy's accent might be a bit weird, but it is a funny and refreshing story about friends and love. The characters are so much fun and the ending is light and entertaining. Murphy and Matthew Rhys play besst friends really well, each trapped in their own fantasies abou...( read more)t love and life. This is not the usual Hollywood type of romantic comedy. In fact, it's British.
  • LisaMJ
    December 7, 2009
    LisaMJ
    Yawn, yawn, yawn, What!? Gwyneth Paltrow and Orlando Bloom!? Yawn, yawn, yawn.
  • perromarylou
    December 7, 2009
    perromarylou
    J'ai bien aimé ce petit film, il évite les "clichés" des comédies romantiques, mais j'aurais bien aimé la scène des retrouvailles!
  • boriserjavec
    December 2, 2009
    boriserjavec
    lovely romantic movie about love
  • PatienceSmatience
    October 6, 2009
    PatienceSmatience
    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.
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