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Rissa

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I took my three girls (14, 11 and 7) to see this today. The reviews were so-so but the girls just love Amanda Bynes and I have a major, life-altering crush on Colin Firth {G}, so off we went. They LOVED IT!!!!!! I wouldn't be nominating it for any awards but as an adult, it didn't bore me and I enjoyed it for what it was.

Moondance

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 06:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG ever since Bridget Jone's Diary I have had a major crush too, Rissa! This movie looks cute:)

I LOVE Colin Firth!

Fabnsab

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My whole family ( me, 3 sisters, and mom) has a crush on Colin Firth! We have watched Pride & Prejudice so many times its sick- five times in four days once when we were all in town at the same time.

I do not want to see this movie at all but Colin is in it so I must! This movie looks like a ripoff of The Princess Diaries. We'll see...

Ddr1135

Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 04:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Add me to the Colin Firth Crush Club!!!! Fabnsab, I have Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones on DVD due to him, LOL! "Good boys don't kiss like that", makes me weak in the knees everytime!

Rissa

Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No way Ddr, it's that little sorta grunting noise he makes at the back of his throat as he is trying to kiss Bridgette in her apt. :)We need help girls. LOLOL

I have P&P on DVD too. Have you seen 'Fever Pitch'? Not the greatest film, but Firth is quite endearing in it. And because it's about soccer, I even managed to get DH to watch it with me. LOL He said it would have been a great movie if the love story didn't clutter it up!!!!!! :) He was good in a Thousand Acres too, but it's just not the same without the British accent. :)

Fab, back to the movie in question.... it's a remake of the 1958 film "The Reluctant Debutante". Although there is a similiarity with the Princess Diaries, it's more in the directors style then the storyline.

Editted to add: Just checked his website and he has two more movies in post production:
1) Love, Actually with Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson , Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman,
Martine McCutcheon, Rowan Atkinson

Good Lord, how can that go wrong??? Alan Rickman singing Loneliness from Truly, Madly, Deeply is one of my all-time knee weakening moments.

This one is supposed to be released Nov 2003

2) Girl with a Pearl Earring: ""Earring," based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier, is about a peasant girl (Johansson) who is forced to work as a maid in the home of famed Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (Firth), where she eventually becomes the model for what would become one of his most famous works. Wilkinson will play the wealthy Van Ruijven, one of Vermeer's top patrons." Again, scheduled to hit North American's theatres in mid-Nov. 2003

Ddr1135

Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 04:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rissa, I'll have to watch Fever Pitch. And the two coming up sound delicious!