Music From Another Room | Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly | Formulaic "Music" hits all right notes with...

Music From Another Room | Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly | A sweet movie

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	Music From Another Room Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly MGM (Video & DVD), 2003 average customer review:based on 130 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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)

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Formulaic "Music" hits all right notes with excellent ensemble cast.

MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is definitely not just another romantic comedy. Yes, much of this screenplay is formulaic where you will know what is going to happen next, but so what-it works, and most effectively. From the very moment that young Danny is asked to reach in Brenda Blethyn's womb to untangle the umbilical chord wrapped around her birthing-baby's neck, we enter the unusual world of passion,fate and destiny. Forward around twenty years and Danny (a very funny and appealing Jude Law) is destined by fate to meet the baby he helped deliver and has vowed to marry.

What puts this rom-com above many others is the EXCEPTIONAL ensemble cast of actors that understand their parts and act them to the hilt.In fact, other than Gretchen Mol's character Anna, the baby grown up, who's character is overly responsible and self-deprived of passion ( therefore rightly not so animated) the rest of the cast, Brenda Blethyn, Jennifer Tilly,Jane Adams, Jeremy Piven, and ESPECIALLY Martha Plimpton and Vince Laresca are comedically quite effective in saving this film from becoming ordinary.

Yes, this film is formulaic,but think about it-formulas are time tested and true-that's why they work. MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM just does it a bit better than most hitting all the right notes.

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A sweet movie

I like this movie with the ensemble cast. It has interesting story lines with the characters. I like the premise that following one's passion isn't always easy, but to live a life without passion is to resign to "death" of your soul.

Music From Another Room: A Guy's Description of Love

When five year old Danny helps deliver the baby of his deceased mother's best friend, he declares that he will marry her, the baby, someday. His father then moves him to England and the story picks up 25 years later.
We next see an absolutely gorgeous Danny (Jude Law) on his return to the United States where he must find employment and a place to live. Fate jumps in and provides him with both in the form of a rented room above a bakery and a job delivering baked goods. Fate again steps in and creates a bicycle accident that knocks him off his bike and into the arms of none other than Anna Swan(Gretchen Mol), the baby he helped deliver 25 years before. Without a doubt, Danny is obviously smitten even before he realizes who she is. No big surprise we discover the girl of his dreams is engaged to someone else.
The delightfully disfunctional Swan family brings comic relief to what could have easily been just another run-of-the-mill romance story. Grace (Brenda Blethyn), the family matriarch is a light hearted, rather etherial sort of mother. You adore her character for a variety of reasons, most importantly because she genuinely loves Danny. Nina (Jennifer Tilly) the blind sister who is sheltered beyond belief until Danny encourages her to spread her wings a little and teaches her that there is life outside of her sheltered existence. Billy (Jeremy Piven) the brother that cheats on his insane wife, Irene (Jane Adams) (these characters are obviously included solely to garner a few comedic moments and succeed well). Karen (Martha Plimpton) the gay sister who has a great line or two but basically is a rather dispensable character.
There is one character that bears a special mention, Jesus (pronounced in the english form rather than the spanish way) played by Vincent Laresca. He plays the eventual love interest of Nina. Girls will fall for his dorky touching portrayal of a man in love with a blind woman.
There is a lot of predictability with this movie but it is still worth watching. I would be remiss if I didn't point out there is one of the most delightful death scenes ever filmed, it is also one of the funniest scenes in the movie. This is a feel good romantic adventure that allows the viewer to escape reality for a delightful 104 minutes.

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Fun way to pass an evening...

it's not spectacular, but I really enjoyed seeing Jude Law in a decent role. He's not my favorite actor (at all), but he's actually likeable here!

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