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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 3626
Released: January 14, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Ashley Judd brings irresistible fun to this sassy romantic comedy about a young woman looking for Mr. Right... in all the wrong places! Jane Goodale (Judd) is a talk show talent scout whose shaky love life drives her to study the curious mating habits of the male animal. Dizzyingly sexy complications ensue whne her research turns her into a revered love guru - and lands her smack in-between hunky heartthrobs Hugh Jackman and Greg Kinnear.
Description of Someone Like You:
Despite its foregone conclusion, Someone Like You is an agreeable romantic comedy about how people construct elaborate defenses to cope with emotional anguish. Based on Laura Zigman's novel Animal Husbandry, the movie is purely formulaic, with a heroine's best friend (played here by Marisa Tomei) and other supporting roles that come straight from central casting. Even the lovelorn heroine is standard-issue for the genre, but as emotionally devastated talk-show booker Jane Goodale, Ashley Judd brings intelligent charm to a role that could have been maudlin and pathetic. For a while, Jane is pathetic: after being dumped by her seemingly devoted boyfriend Ray (Greg Kinnear), she turns heartbreak into a hobby, creating self-assuring theories about male behavior based on the mating habits of cows. She comforts herself with the certainty that all men are scum, when really she just can't accept rejection.
Cast adrift, Jane accepts a roommate offer from her womanizing colleague Eddie (X-Men's Hugh Jackman), who's been nursing his own heartbreak with lots of casual sex. You can see where this is going, and actor-director Tony Goldwyn (following his underrated drama Walk on the Moon) doesn't offer any surprises. But Goldwyn is alert to the comedy of human foibles, and the movie peaks when Jane's defenses are down and Judd's appeal shines at full intensity. At her best, Judd makes an average script better than it has a right to be, and while Kinnear perfects his smarmy routine, Jackman matches them both with star-making sincerity. Someone Like You won't win any awards for originality, but it's universal in its comedic sympathy for the brokenhearted. --Jeff Shannon
Someone Like You Reviews:
The new cow theory! 
2009-10-20 - Broken hearted Jane develops her "new cow theory" about men; meaning that a man prefers being with a new woman and will always dump the old one. Through the funny details of the movie and with friends' help (I won't ruin the pleasure of you finding out for yourself, by providing more details), Jane faces her pain and finds out that she can still find true love, the only analgesic for heartache.
The idea of starting over and admitting that not all men are faulty is very refreshing. After all, we women are the delusional ones who insist on pretending that the frog we're kissing is a knight and we place him on a white horse, then we act shocked when we find out he is still a frog.
The theme of the movie alone makes up for the cheesy performance and deserves 3 stars. Admittedly though, I am a shallow woman, and for the raw pleasure of seeing Hugh Jackman with his shirt off (even though he still looked great with his shirt on), I changed it to 4 stars.
DVD 
2009-09-14 - Quick shipment, great price. Would purchase other movies in the future. He loved the movie...
Have a Heart
2009-09-10 - If you don't like this movie, you have no heart. Ashley Judd is simply adorable. If you can't accept the fact that meeting the right person is all about timing, you know nothing about life.
HEART WARMING
2009-05-22 - from the begining i was rooting for eddie, i know people who are like eddie (ladies man, kind of shallow). but who are basically very lonely and are afraid of entering into a long lasting relationship. you just know it's going to work out for them.
good flick.
Enjoyable Love Move
2009-04-04 - I was pleased with my movie selection and the services rendered was AWESOME. The product was received timely and in great condition. I would definitely buy from this vendor again.
