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List Price: $27.98 | | Label: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Salesrank: 10136
Released: June 17, 2008 |
| Our Price: $6.57 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the director of Madonna: Truth or Dare, this delightful comedy about the rocky road to true love stars Brittany Murphy (8 Mile, Just Married) as the free-spirited "Jacks." An assistant at British Vogue, Jacks adores fixing up her friends, but when it comes to finding the right guy for herself, she's totally clueless. Love comes knocking at her door when she meets sexy photographer Paolo (Santiago Cabrera, TV's Heroes), but will she dare to let her guard down and let romance in?
Description of Love and Other Disasters:
An ultra-modern romantic comedy that portrays heterosexual and homosexual relationships with an openness and candor deemed either deserved or shocking depending on one's point of view, Love and Other Disasters explores the complex difficulties inherent in modern relationships while poking fun at those relationships and the business of movie making. The straight "British Vogue" assistant Emily "Jacks" Jackson (Sin City's Brittany Murphy) and the openly homosexual Peter Simon (Brothers and Sister's Matthew Rhys) are best friends who live together with a familiarity that's usually reserved for the closest of family members. Bathroom chats while one takes a shower and the other sits on the toilet are commonplace in this household and that same openness extends to discussions of their romantic and sexual relationships with the same or opposite sex. Jacks' usually accurate "gaydar" fails her when she meets photographer Paolo Sarmiento (Heroes' Santiago Carbrera) and thus begins a complicated relationship between Paolo and Jacks in which Jacks attempts to set Paolo up with Peter without his knowledge and Paolo yearns for a relationship with Jacks while assuming that she's romantically involved with Peter. Add into this unusual love triangle an ex-boyfriend James (Elliot Cowen) whom Jacks is still sleeping with out of pity; Jacks' emotionally distraught friend Tallulah (Catherine Tate); an elusive David Williams (Will Keen) who Peter bumps into and declares the object of love at first sight even though the two have never actually met; and a host of other farcically odd characters and the stage is set for a romantic comedy unlike any other. On top of it all, James is struggling to write a screenplay that reflects his own reality, but is finding honesty hard to adhere to in the Hollywood business of movie making. Guest cameos include Gwyneth Paltrow and Orlando Bloom. Viewers will find this modern twist on the classic romantic comedy quite funny and entertaining as long as they are willing to put aside any homophobic tendencies and laugh at the absurdities of the world we live in. --Tami Horiuchi
Love and Other Disasters Reviews:
good movie 
2009-11-02 - Good movie..Its cute,funny and a good chick flick...I like Brittany Murphy so thats why I wanted to buy this movie and was happy that I did...Its a all around nice movie...
good movie that no one knows about
2009-09-28 - Love and Other Disasters is a film that very few people even know about. I happened to catch it, maybe 4 years ago as part of the Toronto International Film Fesival, when it was one of the movies showing that year. I saw it with two friends and we all enjoyed it very much! It's light...it's funny...it's cute...a great date movie...and has something for all adults, gay and straight alike (as it has a slight gay element) who like a good romantic comedy. After we saw it.... we never heard another thing about it. It never apparently found a distributor, and never was shown in theaters, to my knowledge. About three years later...it appeared on DVD. I have owned a copy since it came out on DVD and we had one of our "Movie nights" at our home with 8 or 9 friends over, and everyone enjoyed it a lot!
What amazes me in the movie business is all of the total garbage movies that get made and shown in theaters every week..... bad, awful, poorly made and poorly acted films that should never even be produced.... and then there are movies like "Love and Other Disaster" that are well-made, with good acting, and they never see the light of day.
Best romantic movie 
2009-09-09 - I'm not into cheesy romantic comedies. This is a real romantic comedy because it is romantic and will have you rolling out of laughter all the time. Classy, well done, well performed, it is as good as a good glass of refreshing wine.
Love and other Disasters -- a pure disaster! 
2009-07-05 - This movie managed to have something positive about it -- the aptness of its title -- a disaster! Or rather, a chain of disasters! Upon reading the reviews of so many eager Amazon fans, I was convinced that perhaps this film would offer pleasant, shallow fun. In fact, it didn't even offer that. What did it offer? Brittany Murphy's annoying breathy fake accent voice, bad acting, inane moments of pseudo-depth, ridiculous gratuitous nudity. They tried to make this movie entertaining by adding stock characters such as the fashionable city girl (Murphy was sooo not convincing but rather ridiculous in her attempt to channel Audrey Hepburn), the best friend gay men, the eccentric Londoner, and the token colored people to make it all the more exciting .... right? Yet, the formula just did not work. There was NO chemistry among anybody in the film - not the friends and not the love interest between Murphy and the Pablo dude. DO NOT WASTE your time! These are almost 2 hours you will never recover. It is not even bad in a deliciously bad sense, it is just plain bad. If your intelligence or even your shallow desires for an entertaining movie do not want to be insulted, save yourself and watch something else. Or better, yet, watch water boil -- that is infinitely more exciting.
love and other disasters
2009-03-05 - I thought love and other disasters was funny and witty. Brittney Murphy was a riot. Every character was fun and interesting in their own unique way. The story line was real even though it was a comedy. I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves when harry met sally, sleepless in seattle,or jersey girl with jamie gertz.
