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Highly watchable, but not a classic
"Music From Another Room"...strange title for a romantic comedy, perhaps, but it's just another metaphor for love, according to the romantic Danny (the always enchanting and swoon-inducing Jude Law). The storyline is sappy and somewhat contrived (boy tells his father he's going to marry the baby girl he helped deliver, then twenty-odd years pass and they meet up again; sparks fly) but the characters are engaging and the actors do what they can with the sometimes choppy dialogue. Sometimes the movie seems schizophenic, like it's not sure if it's trying to have a moral and a message or if it's just entertaining; characters try to hard to be eccentric. A few subplots all dealing with romance as well are thrown in the mix too, some more successful than others; all pale next to the Law-Mol thread. Still, the movie manages to come through with a general feeling of mushiness that will thrill any closet romantic, especially in the scene at the bakery ("Heads... it was heads," as Savage Garden plays in the background, is enough to make your heart skip a beat and make you sigh). For plot inconsistancies and a scattered storyline, two stars; for sheer entertainment value and for success as a romance, five stars. averaged to four (I rounded up).

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I Just Adore This Movie!
So many people have written reviews that I will just agree and say that it is wonderful. I taped it off of cable and watched it three times in two days.

Jude Law is so fabulous in the role of Danny. I agree with another reviewer about the scene where he is chewing gum. So SEXY! Another couple things about him that I love are his smile and his eyes. The last scene in the movie,where he and Anna are in the train station demonstrates perfectly what I mean.

The supporting cast in this movie are equally impressive. Brenda Blethyn as Anna's Mother is wonderful, as are Jennifer Tilly as Anna's blind sister Nina and Martha Plimton as her older sister Karen, who although she does not have a very big part gets some of the funniest scenes. Like the one in a Bakery where she confronts one of Danny's co-workers for making obscene gestures (you don't see the gesture, just the resulting tirade). It is hilarious.

I Highly recommend this movie for all who love romantic comedy. If you don't, rent it just for Jude Law.

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unbelievable romance, lame comedy, crowded film
Yikes! I'm quite baffled by the positive reviews here! I really like Jude Law (Gattaca) and thoroughly enjoy romantic comedies, but I found this film so absolutely lame on every level that it was difficult to finish. By the time it was over, my husband and I just looked at each other and said, "Whoa, what was that?!"

First, the movie has a very bizarre framing device: Law's character is asked to help deliver a baby when he is five years old. Aside from the discomfort of seeing a child reach into Brenda Blethyn's womb, the young actor must then look sweetly at the new baby and say "I'm going to marry her." This is not only bizarre, it's creepy-bizarre. Still, I tried to forgive this oddity and get on with the movie. Second, this is a great cast that is SO wasted -- Blethyn, Martha Plimpton, Jennifer Tilly and many others in this large under-utilized cast are given a number of quirks but there are so many subplots that you never get to know any of them, or why they are the way they are. Didn't someone once say, "Quirks do not a character make"? Well, that person was not this screenwriter. You just jump from one goofy but endearing mannerism or device to another. There are enough charcters here to make three romantic comedies but instead we get one overcrowded mess. Third, Jude Law is incredibly talented, but he's miscast here as a young man so in love that he affects his love interest's entire family. Law is more a button-down quiet guy, who might inspire passion but not necessarily of the exuberant, romantic variety. Fourth, the chemistry between Law and Gretchen Mol is nonexistent -- two nice actors who are NOT good together. Fifth, the music is pretty bad, intruding on the film more than accentuating the emotions. Finally, the DVD features are: the movie trailer. Whooppee!

If you want to see a fun romantic comedy that you haven't heard of, check out Happy Accidents. This film is lame despite its great cast, and one wonders why all these talented people signed on to this goofy project.