my wife and I were thoroughly involved with the film. We knew it was bound to be great with Ashley Judd and Kevin Kline (a wonderful chemistry between the two).
I would have discussed more, but I get prompted by a message saying '404, go to another page'... I never saw THAT before and wonder if IMDB has turned into a game of Monopoly game.
Smoke me a kipper. I’ll be back for breakfast
I think the board was reacting to how much you actually liked this piece of dreck. Possibly the worst film I've ever seen. Certainly, the worst musical bio-pic ever made. I cannot begin to describe the wretchedness of the performances.
The script, empty and banal, the characters, one dimensional, the story, pretentious and insipidly told. Irving Berlin, an upper-class Wasp?
About a bad a film as can possibly exist and still have the universe not implode in on itself. It was close.
I agree completely with the empty, banal script, the one-dimensional characters, and more. Transforming Monty Woolley, who was the original Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and a professor whom Porter met at Yale into essentially his pimp, was simply wrong. Woolley made a beautiful film, for which he was Oscar nominated titled The Pied Piper about a man who shepherds Jewish children out of Nazi Germany. This is a travesty. I watched the Cary Grant version after weeing this as penance. It's not much better, but a more appealing film.
shareI'm with you stargazer. I think this is one of the most under-rated films around. Who cares how historically inaccurate?? Did "Amadeus" show Wolfgang's concert tours with his sister? or even his children?? (A cd of the chamber music of his son Franz Xaver - who(m) no one ever hears about - has just been released.)
"De-lovely" is an emotionally complex story that has great impact, I think, and has stood up for all of the six times I've shared it with guests. The fact that Kline does his own singing was a stroke of genius and though Linda Porter may not have been the beauty of Ashley Judd - who cares?. I've also noticed that the heavy critics seldom/if ever mention the genius of the makeup and aging transformations. It's a movie that involves you - and ONE OF MY DESERT ISLAND ONES!
Yes, I loved it!
shareNot sure what it is but there's something about this film I really like. It may have something to do with being out of town for a few days right before the end of summer in 04 and watching Letterman in a motel room the night Kline was on promoting the movie. So maybe I associate it with escape in ways I can't with other films. Oddly enough, right around the same time the year before and not far from the same place, I was watching Letterman when Naomi Watts or Kate Hudson was on promoting Le Divorce. Dunno what's going on with the coincidental "De-L" and "Le D" going on there. I guess to me it was interesting to catch these movies being promoted that I knew wouldn't make much money and kinda had that independent/small scale feel, while I'm off in a small town getting away from regular life for a couple days. Not that Le Divorce ended up having the same feel as this film though! I'd buy this one, it's a nice alternative to pretty much every other damn movie you're gonna find in our era.
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