Mediocre movie. It starts off really bad, but it gets a little better.
I cannot believe they managed to screw up -- they had a great plot and a nice cast (Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson).
Helen Hunt was also a lead here. I love her, I do think she is pretty, but she was not the right one for this role. She is supposed to steal Mark Umbers from Scarlett. No way Jose.
The movie is based on Lady Windermere's Fan, from Oscar Wilde, so you can expect some awesome lines. Too bad the delivery was not there.
No gay content :-(
I guess you can rent this, but don't expect much, at all.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Helen Hunt's character was not at all after Mark Umbers - she is in fact the mother of his wife (his wife thinks her mother is dead).
Might help if reveiwers watched ALL of the movie?
Actually, the movie evolved into a mildly sophisticated and for those of us who appreciate OW's wonderful dialogue, there are a few lines well delivered that sparked a giggle or two.
Helen Hunt just did not seem like a femme fatal, although her gently, sympathetic style of acting is not exactly unwatchable. She can act, but OS requires an edge that is hard to get right. Paulette Goddard made the same mistake in AN Ideal Husband, another of OS's works.
Posted by: AwfulTruth | Jan 27, 2009 at 05:10 AM
Did you, QB, sense any intention of screwing up Wilde's play? That would be preposterous, I think. :-)
Posted by: RIC | Jul 22, 2006 at 09:38 PM