Movie #141........................."She's the One"

Movie #141 "She's the One" was just okay. I usually like Ed Burns' stuff ----but the dialogue in here and some of the situations weren't very believable --- esp. the brother (Mike McGlone) --- bad actor and he just couldn't afford to be bad with the character that was written for him (partly by Ed Burns)-- a better actor might have made the guy less jerky, but the way he was played, I can't imagine Jennifer Aniston's character ever marrying him, Ed Burns ever liking him (his brother), and John Mahoney ever having him as a son.............just bad. And I don't like Cameron Diaz, but she was actually okay here because she played such a shallow character --- it suited her. The girl that Burns impulsively marries is a bit bland ---- maybe Aniston and Maxin Bahns should have switched their parts? So, I guess I marginally recommend it --- the interesting idea in the film is that here are all these relationships that started several years back and are failing, but then Burns up and marries a girl he just met and that's the best relationship in the whole film. "Serendipity" with Cusack might be a bit more intriguing with that book searching, but kind of a same idea, in a way.




Average rating: 3.193
I gave it 2.8, rounded off to 3
She's the One
(1996) R
Reeling from a breakup with his fiancée (Cameron Diaz), twenty-something New Yorker Mickey (Edward Burns, who also directed) impulsively marries Hope (Maxine Bahns) -- a passenger he picked up in his cab -- after a weekend courtship. Meanwhile, Mickey's brother, Francis (Mike McGlone), is having doubts about his own marriage to his longtime love (Jennifer Aniston). Soon, Francis finds himself attracted to his brother's ex.