Prismark10
A well to do New York couple who have separated enter a witness protection programme after witnessing a murder.Lawyer Paul Morgan (Hugh Grant) and real estate agent Meryl Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker) are located to a small town in Wyoming under the protection of husband and wife who are sheriff and deputy (Sam Elliot and Mary Steenburgen.)They have trouble adjusting to life in a small town with their country ways such as an inept attempts at rifle shooting, chopping wood, riding a horse and an unfortunate encounter with a bear.However in due course they settle down, helped by the fact how cheap clothes are in warehouse stores and help the locals out with their problems by using their professional skills but the bad guys are still searching for them.The film is mildly diversionary fish out of water movie with Hugh Grant still doing his bumbling English guy act trying to mend things with Sarah Jessica Parker. Its cornily predictable but oozes charm and there is a lot of warmth provided by Steenbergen and Elliot.
Jakemcclake
Apparently my girlfriend likes the type of Romantic Comedy movie that people from the big city wind up in rural areas and have to cope with their surroundings. I found three of these type movies among the 15 or so movies we purchased for $1 each earlier this year. Yesterday, I watched all three. This movie stood out with more comedy and laughs than the others. Hugh Grant delivers good comedy when needed and Sam Elliot and Mary Steenbergen deliver some comic lines as well. At times Sarah delivers an occasional punch line.I found myself laughing pretty good at this one. The ending is mildly predictable, in a slightly unpredictable way, but you can guess that the couple will eventually get together. The reason they mend their fences more the reason to watch the story. Plus the ending is tension filled to a degree. For a laugh I recommend it.
Tss5078
...if you didn't consider yourself lucky! In this film, Hugh Grant is paired with Sarah Jessica Parker in perhaps the worst pairing since Vanilla Ice and Naomi Campbell in Cool As Ice. They play a fashionably separated, New York City power couple, who are forced into witness protection after witnessing a murder. These two city folks are put in the care of an elderly U.S. Marshall and his wife, in the middle of nowhere Montana. Let the fun times begin! Didn't Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley do this a decade earlier in Amish country? At least For Richer or Poorer could get a few cheap laughs here and there, but not the Morgans. The Morgans have no chemistry what-so-ever and their film is painfully slow and predictable. Hugh Grant is usually funny, but in this film, every attempt at humor is snuffed out by Sarah Jessica Parker, who has no idea what she's doing. Parker is just one of these people who was lucky enough to find her perfect role and she was amazing in it, but everything I've seen her in since Sex & The City has been awful! Did You Hear About The Morgans has been done, more than once, and if you watch this movie and can't tell what's going to happen, twenty minutes a head of time, then you haven't seen too many movies. This has got to be one of the biggest waste of money in recent Hollywood history and if you decide to watch it, then you're dumber than the casting director who thought pairing Grant and Parker was a good idea.
SnoopyStyle
Paul (Hugh Grant) and Meryl Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker) are an estranged NY couple. She's a high strung stereotypical A-type personality real estate agent. He's a lawyer trying to reconnect after cheating on her. They witness a murder and now they are in danger. The FBI sends them to Wyoming to hide in witness protection.It's very simple. I don't like these people. More specifically, I don't like her. She comes off as an annoyingly high maintenance whiny snooty NYers. And coming off a cheating fight, these two have all the chemistry of a wet rag. The jokes barely pass as actual jokes. It doesn't help that I don't like the people telling the jokes. There is some value in the fish out of water routine. But all the value can't be realized by these two characters.
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