A big waste of time.
'Til There Was You (1997)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:2
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Two young, upwardly mobile Angelenos lead separate lives destined to intersect--he's a standoffish architect and pathological liar looking out for number one, and she's a wistful, incurably... Two young, upwardly mobile Angelenos lead separate lives destined to intersect--he's a standoffish architect and pathological liar looking out for number one, and she's a wistful, incurably romantic ghost writer looking for Mr. Right. She loves her ornate Gothic apartment building; he's been hired to raze it and replace it with postmoderny angular condos. The two stumble through a maze of near-misses and contrived coincidences on the rocky road to romance. A first feature for director Winant, formerly a producer for TV's "My So-Called Life"; that show's creator, Winnie Holzman, penned. [More]
Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston
Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olin, Craig Bierko, Nina Foch, Alice Drummond, Christine Ebersole, Michael Tucker, Steve Antin, Patrick Malahide, Kasi Lemmons, Kale Browne, Karen Allen
Director: Scott Winant
Director: Scott Winant
Composer: Miles Goodman, Terence Blanchard
Producer: Penney Finkelman Cox, Tom Rosenberg, Alan Poul, Sigurjon Sighvatsson
Screenwriter: Winnie Holzman
Reviews for 'Til There Was You
This film is as messy as its lead character Gwen's (Tripplehorn) personal life.
Bad romantic comedies with sappy characters aren't always without merit, since we cynics can at least use them to further our conviction that love isn't worth the trouble. But this bad romantic comedy is merely bad.
With its clotted script, art direction that's all splash and no style, and dialogue that's too nakedly calculated to facilitate identification), this tedious and confused movie points several characters in obvious directions.
Here is the most tiresome and affected movie in many a moon, a 114-minute demonstration of the Idiot Plot, in which everything could be solved with a few well-chosen words that are never spoken.
This is a fluffy, delightful romantic comedy in the same vein as Sleepless in Seattle.
When you combine the film's tedious length with questionable casting decisions (Parker disappoints, and Jennifer Aniston plays a surgeon(!?)) you get a fine mess that eventually redeems itself... just not all the way.
With dialog like this why did the producers go forward with this project? The movie needs a rewrite and a new director.
Tripplehorn and McDermott are likable enough in their roles, but Holzman's precious, overwritten script gives them few genuinely honest moments.
The film's real irony is that Gwen and Nick are so annoying that they deserve each other.
pure plastic, flat and transparent. All involved were all too obviously aiming for another ``Sleepless In Seattle,'' but what they've produced is a cinematic siesta.
The fatal flaw comes with the casting of the romantic leads, and for once the problem isn't that they don't belong together. You're just not likely to care one way or the other.
The payoff, such as it is, is distressingly anticlimactic, and results in frustration.
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