Añade un argumento en tu idiomaAs her 15-year reunion nears, Kathy starts having sexual fantasies about her high-school sweetheart. Being married, she sends her BFF to the reunion to check out her former dreamboat and rep... Leer todoAs her 15-year reunion nears, Kathy starts having sexual fantasies about her high-school sweetheart. Being married, she sends her BFF to the reunion to check out her former dreamboat and report back. Things get complicated.As her 15-year reunion nears, Kathy starts having sexual fantasies about her high-school sweetheart. Being married, she sends her BFF to the reunion to check out her former dreamboat and report back. Things get complicated.
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This starts off as a curiosity with it being funny to see stars like Brad Pitt and Bill Pullman in a less than starry production. However it is quite amusing for the most. The main problem with this is that it doesn't seem to want to settle on one plot - there's the Kathy fantasy, the Emily pregnancy, the Emily/Tom affair, the Kathy/Peter marriage, the Peter/Joe suspecting affair piece. There's so much going on that it gets a little disjoined and it's difficult to follow one cohesive story. Sure there's links between them all but it still makes for a film with no clear direction.
The story is the main weakness, as everything else is pretty good. The performances are all touched with a sense of fun that adds to the comic atmosphere of the film. However once all the storylines come in it's difficult to keep that element, especially near the end where the stories begin to come together and a lot of the resolutions begin to come together due to coincidence as much as anything else.
It's also difficult to believe that Emily wouldn't jump at the chance of being with Brad Pitt, or that Pullman would get so confused over the situation, never mind the fact that Kathy's dream lover looks like Billy Ray Cyrus - who would fall of that?!
What starts as an inoffensive comedy becomes overly complicated and relies on the type of solutions that would be more at home in a TV sitcom rather than a film. It's a shame because the rest is not as bad as you could have been. Oh - and it's spelt with an 'U' by the way.
I give it a B-
6.5/10.
An unknown actress named Harley Jane Kozak is the star of this film, portraying every man's dream wife - sexy, intelligent, feisty and funny (all in a charmingly unpredictable package) - while at the same time being a great mother. It is sad that Kozak soon gave up acting for good to raise her own family. Watching this film makes me believe she deserved better than obscurity.
As usual, Brad Pitt displays the talent that would soon make him a superstar, and Bill Pullman also gives a decent performance. The least talented of the four major players is Elizabeth McGovern. She doesn't necessarily give a bad performance, but rather fails to make the role her own. She could have easily been replaced by any other competent actress without altering the chemistry between the characters. Perhaps another actress would have turned in a more memorable performance. McGovern is one of those actresses of whom most people have heard, and yet few can name anything she has ever been in.
As usual with movies aimed toward a female audience, the plot is silly and at times nonsensical. As always, at least one man has to be portrayed as a manipulative scumbag with one thing on his mind while all the female characters are decent and loving and emotionally complex. Thankfully though, this film doesn't take itself too seriously. All in all, despite being a "chick flick," this movie is worth watching - perhaps even twice.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesDamian Elwes, brother of actor Cary Elwes and producer Cassian Elwes, is the artist responsible for the paintings Elliot Fowler (Brad Pitt) creates in the film.
- PifiasWhen Kathy is shown blowing up the last balloon, she applies transparent tape to it off-screen, then affixes it to the ceiling. Helium-filled balloons don't require this.
- Citas
Kathy Whiting: I was kind of happy, in a miserable kind of way.
Peter Whiting: Is that worse than being miserable in a happy kind of way?
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- Presupuesto
- 13.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 3.134.381 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 1.487.238 US$
- 1 may 1994
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 3.134.381 US$
- Duración1 hora 37 minutos
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- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1