Word: romanticized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"The Mirror Has Two Faces" knows exactly what it is--a cheesy romantic comedy--and it follows this classic, comforting formula to the letter: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy is an idiot, boy loses girl, boy and girl get back together. Streisand, however, adds her...
Fortunately for everyone, the boy, girl and just about everybody else in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" happen to be played by very competent actors. Streisand herself plays Rose Morgan, an English professor at Columbia who knows the name of every single student in her 400 person lecture, and appears...
Her counterpart is the tongue-tied Gregory Larkin, a professor of mathematics at Columbia, superbly played by the scene-stealing Jeff Bridges. An academic and a pragmatist rather than a romantic, Gregory is totally overwhelmed by anything remotely related to sex, and literally swoons at the sight of a short...
The film is also the fullest expression of Allen's love affair with New York City. "I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," he says, "and I wanted to make a movie to share with other people the very warm and positive feelings I have for my neighborhood...
A retro, romantic musical about the rich and pampered? Sounds like something most American moviegoers would scorn as passe. But Allen is still a believer in the traditional musical, however out of vogue. "It always depends on the quality of the work. If My Fair Lady came out tomorrow, people...