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Audrey Miller (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are both attractive, wealthy workaholic divorce attorneys who are, inexplicably, single. There is some brief explication of Audrey’s unattachment—her parent’s own messy union, fear of repeated mistakes and the like—but all this does very little to make her a likable human being. Her only friend/confidant in the world is her mother , an aggressively youth-defying woman (Frances Fisher), who refuses to answer to “mother” in public. What Audrey does have is a high-powered...
...screening crowd in the ladies room decided was the most realistic in the whole movie. (Consensus was also reached on the “adorability” of Brosnan). Audrey continues to nosh her way through every emotionally distressing moment in the movie, at one point running away from Daniel down a city block clutching a bag of Cheetos for dear life. This appears to be the most creative way the filmmakers could come up with to showcase a successful, well-dressed woman’s peccadilloes...
Immediately after the Gaelic name of the castle trips clumsily off everyone’s tongue, Audrey and Daniel must leave for Ireland to depose the staff and absorb the breathtaking vistas. After imbibing a little too much of local flavor, the couple wakes up in bed together sporting makeshift wedding rings and the totally improbable belief that whatever they did to get those wedding rings is somehow legally binding. When they return to New York and the prying eyes of the New York tabloid press, they fake being married lest their careers suffer. They fake it til they make...
...masters.” (He has more today.) Those “masters” in the General Assembly include the Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...
...Staff writer Daniel J. Hemel can be reached at hemel@fas.harvard.edu