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- 2004
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 30 m
Summary High-powered New York divorce attorneys Daniel Rafferty (Brosnan) and Audrey Woods (Moore) have seen love gone wrong in all its worse case scenarios -- so how bad could their own chances be? (New Line Cinema)
Directed By: Peter Howitt
Written By: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
- 2004
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 30 m
Laws of Attraction
38
5.5
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Summary High-powered New York divorce attorneys Daniel Rafferty (Brosnan) and Audrey Woods (Moore) have seen love gone wrong in all its worse case scenarios -- so how bad could their own chances be? (New Line Cinema)
Directed By: Peter Howitt
Written By: Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling
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Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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58% Mixed
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28% Negative
10 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
38
14% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
58% Mixed
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
28% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
A subtly hilarious supporting performance from Frances Fisher, as Moore's mother, and a latter-day Sid and Nancy (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey, seeming deliriously inebriated the entire time) round out the thoroughly diverting cast.
This frantic scrambling to create a credible fantasy is typical of the script by Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling, which whips the "opposites attract" recipe into a souffl? that never rises.
It's a middling film that wastes a lot of good opportunities, as well as two fine, charming co-stars.
The larger question is not whether these two will wind up together, but rather, if the filmmakers wanted to make a teen movie, why didn't they use real teenagers?
Moore works to feign vitality where none exists, but that just makes it even more embarrassing to watch her writhe around fruitlessly in the most thankless and ill-fitting of roles.
Posey and Sheen appear to have a blast playing oversized characters so obnoxious that it's obvious they belong together.
This shabby enterprise gets so many things so wrong that it freezes your face into a cringe.
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Production Company
Deep River Productions,
Irish DreamTime,
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG),
Fern Valley Limited,
Intermedia Productions,
MHF Zweite Academy Film,
Mobius Pictures,
Stratus Film Co.
Release Date Apr 30, 2004
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Love can be quite a trial.
Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 2 Nominations
