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Phoenix Pictures
TriStar Pictures
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A story about just how wrong two people can be before they can be right.
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
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Dec 25, 2023 · via TMDB
It takes it's time to get going this, but once we've met the characters and it gets into it's swing, its quite an amiable showcase for the star. "Gregory" (Jeff Bridges) is a rather dry university professor who's looking for a distinctly platonic form of female companionship. He places an add and amongst the responses is one from "Rose" (Barbra Streisand). Thing is, she didn't volunteer for this - her recently married sister "Claire" (Mimi Rogers) nominated her... Anyway, the two meet and rather surprisingly they click. A few rather rushed escapades later and it's clear that the two are falling in love - despite the obvious scepticism of her mother "Hannah" (Lauren Bacall) - and that "Rose" is now ready to takes things to a next level that "Gregory" is scared silly of... Meantime, her sister and husband "Alex" (Pierce Brosnan), upon whom "Rose" has always had a bit of a crush, are having difficulties and with "Gregory" playing his hand particularly badly, well - might "Rose" stray? The last forty minutes or so are well paced with some pithy dialogue and as "Rose" finds her true personality the characterisations begin to come alive a little better. There are a couple of fun scenes with the all too sparingly used Bacall and Streisand sabre-rattling and the rest of it, well I reckon there are some clear parallels with "What's Up Doc?" (1972) as the story heads to an increasingly predicable denouement. It's quite watchable, but you'll probably never remember it or the duet with Bryan Adams at the end.
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Barbra Streisand
Rose Morgan
Jeff Bridges
Gregory Larkin
Pierce Brosnan
Alex
Lauren Bacall
Hannah Morgan
Mimi Rogers
Claire
George Segal
Henry Fine
Brenda Vaccaro
Doris
Austin Pendleton
Barry
Elle Macpherson
Candy
Ali Marsh
First Girl Student
Leslie Stefanson
Sara Myers
Taina Elg
Female Professor
Amber Smith
Felicia (Video)
Randy Pearlstein
Randy (Student)
Cindy Guyer
Taxi Stealer
Andrew Parks
Waiter
Jimmy Baio
Jimmy the Waiter
Laura Bailey
Henry's Second Date
Mike Hodge
Justice of the Peace
Anne O'Sullivan
Gloria
Sandi Schroeder
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Kiyoko M. Hairston
Female Student
Ben Weber
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Rudy Ruggiero
Waiter
William Cain
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Adam LeFevre
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Eli Roth
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Milla Jovovich
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Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director of Photography
Dante Spinotti
Director of Photography
Theoni V. Aldredge
Costume Design
Vince Deadrick Jr.
Stunt Coordinator
Barbra Streisand
Director
Alan Heim
Additional Editing
Todd M. Thaler
Casting
Declan Baldwin
Location Manager
Arnon Milchan
Producer
Barbra Streisand
Producer
Alicia Stevenson
Foley
Barbra Streisand
Music Supervisor
Marvin Hamlisch
Original Music Composer
Greg P. Russell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Kevin O'Connell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Charles L. Campbell
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Barbra Streisand
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Bryan Adams
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André Cayatte
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