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Alex And Emma
2003
ALEX AND EMMA is the perfect date movie, courtesy of veteran comedy director Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE). Luke Wilson plays Alex, a struggling writer who owes $100,000 to Cuban loan sharks. If he could only finish his romance novel in thirty days he would earn a big enough advance to pay them off, but before he can even .. Read more
| Starring | Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer |
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| Director | Rob Reiner |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Alex And Emma
ALEX AND EMMA is the perfect date movie, courtesy of veteran comedy director Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE). Luke Wilson plays Alex, a struggling writer who owes $100,000 to Cuban loan sharks. If he could only finish his romance novel in thirty days he would earn a big enough advance to pay them off, but before he can even start, the thugs destroy his lap top. Enter Emma (Kate Hudson) the prim, highly opinionated stenographer Alex convinces to help him. The rest of the film then oscillates between their present-day budding romance and the 1920s setting of Alex's story, wherein a tutor named Adam (Wilson again) takes a job at a lush country manor and falls for his beautiful employer, Polina (Sophie Marceau). Hudson appears in the story as Anna, the au pair of Adam's student, and with Emma's input, her character eventually supplants Polina as the novel's primary romantic heroine. All in all, it's an amusing tale of how real-life romance can affect the outcome of romantic fiction, and is loosely based on the true story of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who fell in love with his own stenographer over the course of writing THE GAMBLER. In the Emma/Anna role, Hudson proves herself an adept comedienne, and she and Wilson share a natural, easygoing chemistry.
| Starring | Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer |
|---|---|
| Director | Rob Reiner |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 09 Jul 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Excruciating
There's nothing to redeem this film. It's a minger. It's a wonder how a film like this gets made. Rob Reiner, who has made good films, should hide himself in a darkened room for at least a decade.
Wilson plays a writer with gambling debts. He must write a novel in 30 days or face the wrath of his creditors. He hires stenographer, Kate Hudson (she looks much better as a blond) to help him write said novel. Interwoven with the contemporary story is the period story which Wilson' character is writing. It's awful.
A big problem I have with these New York romantic comedies. The kind made by Nancy Meier and Reiner amongst others is that they’re incredibly patronising. The lead characters are always very superior, they think they're a better than most. They talk down to there audience, perhaps because sections of it are ignorant.
I am not ignorant and I'm not going to sit through 90 minutes or worse and typically over two hours of this rubbish. Stay away - even for fans of Wilson and Hudson. -
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15 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Excruciating
There's nothing to redeem this film. It's a minger. It's a wonder how a film like this gets made. Rob Reiner, who has made good films, should hide himself in a darkened room for at least a decade.
Wilson plays a writer with gambling debts. He must write a novel in 30 days or face the wrath of his creditors. He hires stenographer, Kate Hudson (she looks much better as a blond) to help him write said novel. Interwoven with the contemporary story is the period story which Wilson' character is writing. It's awful.
A big problem I have with these New York romantic comedies. The kind made by Nancy Meier and Reiner amongst others is that they’re incredibly patronising. The lead characters are always very superior, they think they're a better than most. They talk down to there audience, perhaps because sections of it are ignorant.
I am not ignorant and I'm not going to sit through 90 minutes or worse and typically over two hours of this rubbish. Stay away - even for fans of Wilson and Hudson. -
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Alex And Emma
ALEX AND EMMA is the perfect date movie, courtesy of veteran comedy director Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE). Luke Wilson plays Alex, a struggling writer who owes $100,000 to Cuban loan sharks. If he could only finish his romance novel in thirty days he would earn a big enough advance to pay them ...
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