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Letters to Juliet (2010)
Maybe I missed something when I was yawning, but...
...why did the Secretaries of Juliet need an English translator when all of them spoke it quite well ? Right down to idioms ('cold fish') and such.
As for my review... we rented this from Redbox, and I'd really like my dollar back. I read Harlequin Romance novels as a kid that were more reality-based than this movie. Barely-employed pseudo-writer and fledgling restaurateur - in New York City - can afford weeks-long trips to Italy for a 'pre-honeymoon' ? And where did they find those hotel rooms ? Most lodging in Europe is either youth hostels or is simply tiny, dark, and dingy, with communal bathrooms. But I guess I shouldn't look for accuracy when they consistently drove on the wrong side of the road - even the guy who's supposed to be British did ! I just got no sense of anything but a flighty fairytale out of this whole movie - it sure ain't a 'film' - where none of the actors, save Redgrave and Nero, had any real chemistry together at all. If I had a buck for every time I groaned in realization that, yes, we were in fact headed back to Cliché Land, I could buy my own DVD of this and destroy it.
BTW, did our magical heroine ever eat anything that wasn't being hand-fed to her ? She could sure put away the vino and champagne on her own, though...