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I Could Never Be Your
Woman
Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre:
Romance/Comedy
Run Time: 97
min.
Release Date:
June 2007
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Teaser:
Movie Trailer
Reviewed by
Byron Merritt |
Romantic comedies abound,
so I was hesitant to retry the genre with yet another film starring
Michelle Pfeiffer. She seems to love the genre; not necessarily all
comedy but definitely the romantic part. Ever since ONE FINE DAY
(1996) where she starred alongside the then and future heart-throb
George Clooney (MICHAEL
CLAYTON), she’s been consistently on the romance movie
radar screen (that’s been 12 years as of this review).
But Pfeiffer does an okay job once again as an aging screenwriter named
Rosie, trying to keep her job, her sanity, and her teen daughter all
from imploding. Circling around these troublesome times is Rosie’s
growing awareness of her age (mid-40s) and her lack of any new romantic
prospects. Her “battle scenes” with her daughter’s Ken and Barbie dolls
are pretty darn funny, too, which also aided in the darker side of the
comedic need to understand one’s own age. Her daughter Izzie (Saoirse
Ronan, ATONEMENT) has just got her period and is full into what she
believes to be womanhood. Rosie’s daughter’s blossoming adulthood
triggers Rosie’s own sense of love and she finds it in the unlikely arms
of a much, much younger man/actor named Adam (Paul Rudd,
KNOCKED UP).
Difficulties abound thanks to Rosie’s passive-aggressive secretary
Jeannie (Sarah Alexander) who does everything to thwart Rosie’s
possibilities at a love life; and thanks to Rosie’s ex-husband Nathan
(Jon Lovitz) who’s always having some body part of his remade via
plastic surgery. There’s another “force” battling Rosie and it is Mother
Nature herself (Tracey Ullman,
CORPSE BRIDE) come to life in the form of
a nymph-like creature that talks to Rosie about the need to follow
nature’s path.
The Mother Nature portions of the story are undoubtedly the weakest and
easily could’ve been tossed out without losing anything within the story
of I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN.
The outlandish dancing and over-acting of Paul Rudd helped keep the
story light and laugh-out-loud interesting. Even Lovitz was a bit of a
surprise in that he helped move the storyline along with some decent
comedic punch.
But if you’re looking for anything new within the genre, you won’t find
it here. Which can be refreshingly simple for some, but irritatingly
static to others.
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Be Your Woman
DVD cost: $12.86
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Newsworthy:
Norm MacDonald was
originally cast as Rosie's ex-husband. According to MacDonald, he grew a
bushy mustache for the role. When Amy Heckerling told him to shave it
off, he quit the project.
Movie Quote: "Think
about it. Tobacco is natural, Prozac's unnatural. Earthquakes are
natural, television's unnatural. Natural sucks!"
Other Actors/Actresses
from I Could Never Be Your Woman
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