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It is a testament to Julianne Moore’s (THE HOURS) talent that I didn’t realize just how badly written her character was until close to the end of the film. She plays straight-laced divorce lawyer Audrey Woods who loses her first case to disheveled attorney Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Bronson, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA).
The film is an “opposites attract”/”free-spirit teaches anal person to learn how to love” type film. All the characters are one-dimensional and rarely display any real human emotions or logic. Plus the plot doesn’t seem to know what it wants. Woods and Rafferty get drunk and then hook up, which Woods is ashamed of and then later they get drunk, in Ireland of all places, and get married. (I am giving no more away than the trailer did). If the drunk hook-up is lame than the drunk marriage is pathetic.
Like I said before human logic is out the window with this film. But somehow, Moore and Bronson make it work on some level. I wasn’t hating myself too much watching it. And I kind of wanted to see the two leads together in the end. But the film offers no surprises and no intelligence. It’s not even paint-by-numbers because it seems at times to be pieced together from parts of totally difference screenplays. In the end, if you want to see a married couple square off against each other in the court room than go rent ADAM’S RIB and save yourself the wasted time on LAWS OF ATTRACTION.
Rick DeMott
Animation World Network
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