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Billy Crystal plays Mickey, a basketball referee who has to accompany his estranged father's body to France, where the old man requested to be buried with the other members of his D-Day platoon. Unfortunately for Mickey, the airline loses his body. Fortunately for Mickey, this leads him to meet Ellen (Debra Winger), an airline executive who takes personal charge of the case and even joins him at the funeral. A whirlwind Paris romance leads to marriage, but that's when the complications begin... The story of Mickey and Ellen's marriage is recounted by their friends (played by Joe Mantegna, Cynthia Stevenson, Julie Kavner, Richard Masur, John Spencer, and Cathy Moriarty) as they wait for Mickey and Ellen to arrive at a dinner party. And of course these friends have their own stories, which are played out in witty shorthand as they bicker about who's going to tell the next part of the Mickey/Ellen saga. Forget Paris is uneven (unsurprisingly, Winger is stronger in the dramatic sections and Crystal in the comic parts, a schism that takes its toll on their chemistry), but its best parts hold up, even if the whole is shaky. Plus, the movie's theme (that romantic memories aren't what makes a marriage work, you have to live in the present) is explored with conviction and tenderness. --Bret Fetzer
Billy Crystal is a basketball referee who meets the woman of his dreams(Debra Winger). Winger is Helen,an airline ticket agent who arranges a foreign flight to Paris for funeral services for Crystal's character's father. Supporting Crystal and Winger are Richard Masur,Julie Kavner,Joe Mantegna and Cynthia Stevenson. The latter four are in a restaurant in one segmented but continuous scene. Masur and Kavner are telling stories about the romance of Crystal's and Winger's characters,very much like Crystal's 1989 film WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. In another scene,Crystal's character could no longer manage to referee a basketball game because he's so distraught over his break-up with Helen. The couple shortly later made up.
Bill walton cant act and he played basketball AND HES NOT
1 of the 50 best ever what is wrong with people??? How can a LOSER have 3 good years and still be 1 of the 50 best?????????
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This is not a great movie, but I have to admit it is better than most romantic comedies out there. There are at least two or three "laugh-out-loud" moments (my favorite is the pigeon scene), but for the most part it is just okay. I thought my lack of enthusiasm could be attributed to the fact that this is more of a "chick flick," but alas, my wife felt the same way.
Using the friends of the main characters to tell the story in flashback is an interesting device, but overall this film is only a little bit better than average.
Meg Ryan emerges bloodied but unbowed from this botched comedy by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill). Ryan plays a woman whose fiancé (Timothy Hutton) leaves her for a Parisian beauty. She jets over to the City of Lights to fight for her man, but an incapacitating fear of flying forces her to seek help from a fellow passenger, a French thief played by Kevin Kline, who then tutors her in the ways of getting her beau back. Kasdan seems incapable of pacing the story, let alone getting a firm grip on its comic tone and intentions. The production sputters and regroups and stalls repeatedly, forcing Ryan, particularly, to find the boundaries of her own screwball performance. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan DVD Release Date: Released the 18 January 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Nora Ephron wrote the brisk screenplay for this 1989 romantic comedy, director Rob Reiner made a nicely glossy New York story (very much in a Woody Allen vein) out of it, and Billy Crystal's unstoppable charm made it something really special. Crystal and Meg Ryan play longtime platonic friends who keep dancing around their deeper feelings for one another, and Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher are their respective pals who fall in love and get married. Ryan doesn't get a lot of funny material, but her performance is typically alive and intuitive, and she more than holds her own with Crystal's comic motor mouth and sweet sentimentality. Reiner is on comfortable ground, liberated from the burden of making serious statements in the lead-footed manner of subsequent features. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 09 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they're destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible, and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is ... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Nora Ephron DVD Release Date: Released the 07 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot.
The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Nora Ephron DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This was a funny movie that mostly comes on regular TV when nothing good comes on. Its about a wealthy psychiatrist Dr. leo marvin (richard dreyfuss) who is helping an annoying parasite patient bob (bill murray) with his issues in life and Dr. marvin goes on a vacation with his family in new hampshire at his lake house and bob is lonely won't stop calling him and then he finds out where he lives and comes over and spends vacation with leo and his family and leo can't seem to get rid of bob he will always come no matter what. Poor Leo would become insane and be commited to a mental hospital and bob marries leos sister and bob will become his brother in law. funny movie a little like looney tunes. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Frank Oz DVD Release Date: Released the 11 July 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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