Only You
1994 Directed by Norman Jewison
Synopsis
Destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that two soul-mates can be united if they find each other, from the Ouija board.
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Awful awful rom-com (not awful because it's a rom-com as there are good ones about). Wasting the time of the people making it, contemptuous of its audience. Brainless clunky plot, horrible characters. Comprehensively and categorically no stars.
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Damon Bradley :)
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Straight down the line romcom that uses scenic Italian locations to paper over the fact we're supposed to be rooting for a mentally unstable woman behind the guise of following fate.
And Robert Downey Jr looks destroyed in his role as a supposed-to-be-charming-but-actually-creepy amour.
What was it with nineties romcoms' obsession with fate? And with casting Bonnie Hunt as sour best friends?
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Pleasant "Rome-antic" comedy (yeah, I'm good) that's rather less than the sum of its parts. Marisa Tomei is a hopeless romantic who's held out her whole life for a man she's never met: Damon Bradley. Aged 11, she got his name via a ouija board, then had it confirmed by a plump mystic. When - 14 years later - she finally buckles and gets engaged to a foot doctor, she's congratulated on the phone by one ... Damon Bradley, and hotfoots it to Italy hot on his trail. It's a fun idea, but the film isn't particularly funny or romantic - it should have spent far more of its 100+ minutes on the relationship between Tomei and charming man-about-town Robert…
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The movie pretended to be too much which it was not. Nonetheless it was a good film with nice acting by beautiful tomei.
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Awful awful rom-com (not awful because it's a rom-com as there are good ones about). Wasting the time of the people making it, contemptuous of its audience. Brainless clunky plot, horrible characters. Comprehensively and categorically no stars.
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Utterly disposable romantic comedy.
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A fun romantic comedy with spectacular backdrops.