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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 23543
Released: January 7, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Jude Law (Road to Perdition) leads an exceptional ensemble cast, including Gretchen Mol ( Girls Club ), Academy Award® nominees* Jennifer Tilly (Monsters, Inc.), Brenda Blethyn (Lovely & Amazing), as well as Martha Plimpton (Beautiful Girls), Jon Tenney (You Can Count on Me) and Jeremy Piven (Black Hawk Down), in this enchanting, 'sweet love story ( Hollywood Online ) of a romance born with a little help from destiny and a few determined matchmakers! When five-year-old Danny helps deliver a family friend's baby, Anna, he tells his father that he will one day marry her. But it's not until he moves back to Americatwenty-five years laterthat fate steps in literally knocking him off his bike and into the arms of a beautiful, grown-up Anna (Mol)! But though destiny may be on his side, Danny (Law) discovers that time is not...because Anna is not only unsure of her feelings for Danny, but she's also engaged to be married to someoneelse! *Tilly: Supporting Actress, Bullets over Broadway (1994); Blethyn: Actress, Secrets & Lies (1996); Supporting Actress, Little Voice (1998)
Music From Another Room Reviews:
A Nice Movie... But 
2009-10-18 - This was a sweet picture, a nice picture... but with the talented cast here it should have been a great movie. There was just too slender a premise to base the story on and I had a strong desire to shake some of these people and say, "Get a grip."
Lots to like! Some great acting from the 'supporting cast'
2009-07-10 - All around charming movie, in my opinion.
Didn't much like Gretchen Mol's acting. She came across as wooden most of the time. But everyone else did a really great job.
I found it really hard to believe that the woman that dumped Jude's character early on would have done that. Danny was sweet and gorgeous. The fact that she had told him to come on down and lived with him, told him she loved him, only to move to washington that way was really hard to wrap my head around.
Otherwise, it was a great movie.
music from another room 
2009-05-28 - What a wonderful movie, from start to finish it draws you in and makes you want for more... six star if you ask me
In Perfect Harmony 
2009-04-10 - MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is a very sweet, romantic film. My husband and I spent a quiet evening at home watching this one, and we both really enjoyed it. While the plot is familiar and predictable, it is still very well done, and exactly what you want this kind of movie to be.
In MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM, we first meet 5 year old Danny as he helps to deliver the baby of his recently deceased mother's best friend. After baby Anna makes her unique arrival into the world, young Danny declares that he will marry her someday. Soon after this momentous event, however, Danny and his father move back to England. Jump forward 25 years, and we meet Danny again, newly returned to the USA. He thinks he is going to move in with his girlfriend, but she does not have the same idea. In fact, she is leaving town to be with someone else. Fate then does a little happy dance, and Danny ends up living above a bakery, with a job as a delivery boy, delivering a cake to the family of his mother's best friend, where he runs in to baby Anna, all grown up now. She is lovely and sweet, and of course, engaged to someone else. Danny immediately falls in love with her, and delivers that classic pick up line, "Wow, the last time I saw you, you were covered in after-birth." Anna does not think much of Danny, at first, but over time, he grows on her. Will fate intervene again? Will Danny and Anna fulfill their destiny?
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is charming, fun, and innocent. Jude Law is young and handsome, and just right for the role of Danny. Gretchen Mol is lovely, sweet, and actually very naive as Anna. Jennifer Tilly is excellent as the quirky, sheltered blind sister, Nina, who finds unexpected romance with Jesus, a dishwasher who embraces life, wonderfully portrayed by Vincent Laresca. The rest of the cast is equally outstanding, and does an excellent job of portraying this wacky, dysfunctional, but loving family.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is an odd-ball, funny, wacky romantic comedy that will tickle your funny bone and warm your heart. Yes, it is predicable, standard stuff, but it is very, very well done, for what it is. These characters and their story really capture your heart, and keep you caring until the very end. If you want to spend a quiet evening cuddling on the couch with your sweetie, then this is the perfect movie. Popcorn and snuggles, what a perfect evening with the one you love.
Desperate attempt at magical reality fails 
2008-08-10 - I adore Jude Law, but even his considerable charms are sadly dimmed in this pathetic effort. The plot reads like a reject from the "high-concept" comedy assembly line at 1980's Touchstone Pictures: young boy delivers baby, falls instantly in love with infant girl, then returns more than 20 years later to fulfill a "destiny" he had apparently forgotten: marrying her. You'll never guess what happens next ... Oh, all right! Of course you will. Aside from how truly dreadful it is, this film lacks any surprises.
No character in the film betrays a whit of common sense as they are folded, spindled and mutilated in service of a storyline so painstakingly-contrived as to be embarrassing. Director Charlie Peters fails to correct any of the flaws in his own screenplay (according to IMDb, it took this hack another 11 years to land any sort of gig at all), shoehorning a generally impressive cast into trite situations unleavened by any worthy dialogue. The pacing is wrong -- Helen Keller could have done a better job editing this mess. Especially depressing is the lack of chemistry between any of the leads. This movie fails at all levels -- and is made all the worse by a garish production design that leaves the physically-attractive cast looking as bad as they ever have on film.
Even Jude Law's one shirtless scene is brief, and shot in near-darkness for crying out loud! The DVD transfer is poor, there is no widescreen version, and the "extras" consist solely of the theatrical trailer that serves as fair warning to potential viewers.
There really is no one to whom I can recommend this film.
