MOVIE COMPANY: Castle Rock Entertainment
CAST: Starring Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young, James Fox and Joe Viterelli.
DIRECTED BY: Kelly Makin
PRODUCED BY: Elizabeth Hurley
RATING: Rated PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0130121
TYPE OF MOVIE: Comedy, Crime, Romance
DURATION: 102 minutes
Hugh Grant plays dapper Manhattan art auctioneer Michael Felgate in this lively fish-out-of-the-water comedy romp. Eager to marry Gina (Tripplehorn), the lovely teacher he’s been dating for three months, Michael feels it’s time he meets her family. What he meets is the family. Gina’s father Frank (James Caan) is a gangster, who extract money for the mob. Now the squeeze is on Michael to use the auction house as a money laundering scam for dubious artwork…and plunging fumbling, bumbling Michael into a world he must pose as a notorious wise guy called Mickey Blue Eyes.
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen
• Commentary by director Kelly Makin
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):Â None that I know of
DVD REVIEW:
After the popular “Notting Hill”, I couldn’t wait to see a movie featuring Hugh Grant and the Firm’s Tripplehorn. In a way, from what I saw from the trailer it is what I expected. A corny romantic comedy with the English mixed with the mob.
Although this is a comedy mob love story, it has its share of humor especially when it comes to art. Just to see art such as Jesus with a machine gun was a bit weird to see.
Otherwise an average film and an average DVD. The DVD transfer is nice and the music really sounds good in this dialogue movie (so don’t expect too much from the audio side). As for special features, just a trailer and production notes. That was the disappointment for me but if you want to see a romantic comedy featuring Hugh Grant, rent this one.
THE MOVIE:Â C
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â D+
THE DVD OVERALL:Â C-