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Studio: Fox 2000
Studio: Regency Enterprises
Release Date: May 16, 2003
Running Time: 94 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Barbara hits 1962 New York City with her new book, "Down With Love," a pre-feminist manifesto saying "no" to love and "yes" to career, empowerment--and sex. As Barbara's revolutionary tome rockets to the top of the best-seller charts, she becomes the target of ace journalist Catcher "Catch" Block, ladies' man/ man's man/ man about the town, who is determined to take her down. Catch's best friend and boss, the neurotic and lovesick Peter McMannus, tries to rein in his star writer, while haplessly pursuing the object of his affections, Vicki Hiller, Barbara's brilliant and feisty editor. Vicki plays tough in a man's world, which includes her old style chauvinist boss, Theodore Banner.
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Director
Barbara Novak
Catcher Block
Vikki Hiller
Peter McMannus
Gladys
Maurice
Theodore Banner
EG
JB
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Executive Producer
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May 14, 2003
Once upon a time unchartered by The Matrix crowd, meaning the 1960s, Hollywood made comedies in which Doris Day played a professional virgin and Rock Hudson, then a closeted gay, played a stud who failed to get in her pants unless he flashed a wedding ring. These films were sugary fantasies shot on studio sets with painted backdrops. They had no resemblance to the world we live in, then or now. That's what was fun about them. Down With Love is an attempt to recreate that Pillow Talk era. For…
In an homage to those wacky Doris Day/Rock Hudson '60s romps, Down With Love revolves around a feminist writer who has sworn off love, and a playboy journalist who doesn't think he needs love. Story To be fair, it isn't the film's premise which leaves that bad taste in your mouth--the vintage-y yarn is actually kind of fun. Fresh-faced Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger) hits 1962 New York by storm, preaching a pre-feminist mantra with her hot bestseller Down With Love. The book tells women they… |
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