Romantic comedy

trepessa

I just watched this movie which was about a girl, American, working in England as an assistant at Vogue. Her career was sort of a side issue to all the antics going on with her love life and that of her gay roommate. I thought Brittany Murphy was charming in the part she played as "Jacks", a wannabe matchmaker for her gay room mate. What makes it comical is she matches up the new photographer's assistant assuming he is gay with her roommate. It is a comedy of errors and mistaken love attachments. There were parts I burst out laughing. It isn't plausible to me for real life but it was very entertaining. The photographer's assistant, Paolo, is from Argentina and they want to deport him just as his career takes off after the main photographer walks out on a shoot because he gets in a verbal squabble with Paolo and "Jacks". Paolo takes over the shoot and his photographs are published. In the meantime, she breaks up with her boyfriend and he is jealous of Paolo even though Jacks thinks he is gay, but her room mate and her boyfriend know differently. He reports him as an illegal alien and he is being deported. Jacks still doesn't know he is not gay and suggests they marry to keep him in the country. At the court wedding he admits he isn't gay and he loves her. She walks out feeling betrayed and he takes off to Argentina. She recovers and tries to catch him and misses the flight and subsequently takes another flight to Argentina.

The room mate writes a screenplay on their life which is changed for the big screen with other actors playing them in a movie which they view at the end. It shows Gwenneth Paltrow meeting Paolo at the airport being played by Orlando Bloom and she confesses her love and they kiss. In the mean time it shifts back to the real characters watching a screening of the film and everyone leaves with a very pregnant Jacks. They all live happily ever after. There are other side stories with the gay roommate and some of their friends, but this is the basis of the movie. It is light and funny and I loved this movie. It is really sad that Brittany Murphy passed away because I think she was a really versatile actress and will be missed. The moral was you choose love and love is a chance one takes, it's a leap of faith.

score 8/10

trepessa 10 April 2010

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