Music From Another Room (Dub Sub)

Music From Another Room (Dub Sub)


Starring:Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Gretchen Mol, Martha Plimpton, Brenda Blethyn, Jon Tenney, Jeremy Piven, Vincent Laresca, Jane Adams (II), Bruce Jarchow, Kevin Kilner, Jan Rubes, Judith Malina, Hillary Matthews, Caitlin Sarah Needham, Jon Polito, Tony Abatemarco, Joseph Pilato, Ann Shea (II), Kari Leigh Floyd
Director: Charlie Peters
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD
Music From Another Room
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A sweet movie
  • Fun way to pass an evening...
  • A Romantic Comedy set in the Twilight Zone
  • Trying to have it both ways
  • A Decent Story with Excessive Subplots Saved by some Good Acting
 Music From Another Room
Starring: Jude Law , Jennifer Tilly , Gretchen Mol , Martha Plimpton , and Brenda Blethyn
Director: Charlie Peters
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B0000714C4
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Description

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)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A sweet movie.......2007-06-08

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.

3 out of 5 stars Fun way to pass an evening..........2006-06-17

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!

2 out of 5 stars A Romantic Comedy set in the Twilight Zone.......2006-06-11

The main reason to see this film is to enjoy how beautiful Jude Law was in 1997. When you see his face, the first thing you think is, "Now, there is a movie star!"

Other than the glorious Law, this movie is a must-see for anyone who wants to write a screenplay or make a movie. You will learn that spending time on subplots is disastrous, you will learn how not to edit a film (why do we cut from Jude and Gretchen --as "Danny" and "Anna" -- doing it in bed at night and then, suddenly cut to Jennifer Tilly, the blind sister, getting married in the middle of the day and then back to Jude and Gretch in the afterglow of a hot session?), and you will learn that no matter how good your score is (Richard Gibbs), it cannot make up for a weak script?

In other departments, why is it that Jennifer was forced to wear schmata sweaters and mumus? She looked like a fat hausfrau who stumbled onto the set of a TV Movie of the Week! And are we really supposed to believe that Anna's father Richard (played by a lost, overbearing, overacting, clueless Bruce Jarchow) only wore sweater vests in every single kind of weather and for 30 years? Was he supposed to be a "professor"? What the hell did the man do other than complain and look around for an exit?

As for the "story" -- if Jude had come to town to work on his "mosaic" skills, then why is it he had to leave (on a train to Atlanta?) to "get away" from Gretchen?

And speaking of Gretch... I wanted to give her every single benefit of the doubt, but... I just didn't buy her performance. When photographed from the exact right angle, she was very appealing, with fabulous eyebrows, but when photographed from other angles, she looked like a cute pug-nosed 30s tap dancer.

The screenplay was filled with lines that sounded like every one was anticipating what the other actor would say. Also, characters would say things that just couldn't be said unless they were written by someone. It was insane to think that Brenda Blethyn, an absolutely fine actress, would deliver such detailed, clear, poetic sentences with her dying breaths. No, didn't cut it in that department either.

The only relationship that was interesting to me was that of Nina (Jennifer Tilly) and Jesus (Vincent Laresca). The fact that he pronounced his name as Jesus, not Hey-soose, was a running gag and it got me laughing... but more importantly, their improbable romance was cute and charming and I really wanted to know what happened in their lives. I really didn't care about everybody else... which is the enormous failing of this entire production.

The cinematography is great; it looks like the whole film was shot over a sunny week or two in a beautiful Los Angeles, so, it's all nice to look at.

Otherwise, MFAR is, at best, a superb study in what not to do when you get your big chance to make your own movie.

2 out of 5 stars Trying to have it both ways.......2006-04-13

Many here have tried to explain why a film with such a charming and clever set-up should have turned into such a mediocre movie.

The filmmaker was obviously terrified of being accused of "sentimentality" (whatever that is). So, he threw in every kind of quirky unpleasantness he could think of, so that no one could accuse him of making a feel-good movie. He succeeded.

Unfortunately, people who hate feel-good movies are not pleased either because of the charming and clever set-up. The characters are not nasty enough, and there is an almost total lack of hostility anywhere in the film.

Moral: Decide what audience you're going to aim at. Go for them and write off the others.

3 out of 5 stars A Decent Story with Excessive Subplots Saved by some Good Acting.......2006-04-12

MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM was written and directed by Charlie Peters: the film script would benefit from some judicious editing. Yet as a light love story it is fast moving despite diversions in the plot and in general gives some fine actors good screen time.

Danny (Jude Law) as a five-year-old lad assisted in the complicated birth of his friend Grace Swan's (Brenda Blethyn) child Anna (Gretchen Mol) and at that moment declared he would marry Anna someday. Twenty five years later Danny returns to Los Angeles from his home in England and encounters the mature Anna who is now engaged to Eric (Jon Tenney), falls in love, returns to the neighbor family of his childhood where Grace greets him with effusive warmth. The family is a dysfunctional one: Anna's sister Nina (Jennifer Tilly) is blind and dependent on Anna; brother Billy (Jeremy Piven) is married to suicidal Irene (Jane Adams); cynical feminist sister Karen (Martha Plimpton) is a man-eater; and the father cares for Grace as she is stricken with a terminal illness. Anna resists Danny, but Danny's influence on the family is like 'music from another room', and results in positive changes in each of the family members: Nina finds love with Jesus (Vincent Laresca), a kitchen worker who introduces Nina to dancing, love, and independence; Grace opens her longing for Anna to experience passion instead of just caring for everyone; and the concept of fate and love and passion is stirred vigorously.

Jude Law is his usual appealing self and makes his role credible. Jennifer Tilly does a fine job realizing Nina and her transformation, and Brenda Blethyn gives us a heady dose of Brenda Blethyn, which is always welcome. There are many problems with the film, the most significant one being Gretchen Mol who doesn't take her character beyond paper doll and certainly doesn't seem an adequate reason for Jude Law's unswerving attention. But as a film it works well enough and does provide some food for thought about the true meaning of love. Grady Harp, April 06

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