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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
12A | | Cast
John Cusack
Diane Lane
Dermot Mulroney
Stockard Channing
Dermot Mulroney
Elizabeth Perkins. | | Directors
Gary David Goldberg. | | Screenwriters
Gary David Goldberg. | | Running Time
98 minutes |
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Must Love Dogs
If you love dogs, you're probably a reliable lover ...er...apparently
Plot
Sarah Nolan (Lane) is a recently divorced, forty-something preschool teacher. Her nosey family are constantly trying to set her up with new boyfriends, and eventually enroll her on a dating website, citing the condiotion "must love dogs" in her ad. Someone responds, but she doesn't actually own a dog... Review
Chick-lit becomes chick-flick, bringing together both the best and worst of both genres as recently divorced Sarah (Diane Lane) tries to find Mr. Right thanks to a family intervention that involves posting her dating profile online against her will. All the usual suspects are here — the cad (Dermot Mulroney), the gay best friend, the embarrassing family members (including Oirish dad Christopher Plummer) and, of course, the true love (John Cusack).
But such a ludicrous array of obstacles are placed along the path to happiness that it becomes almost as annoying as Lane’s predictive acting technique — just watch her face BEFORE each dramatic incident. If only the whole script had been as sharp as some of Cusack’s caustic one-liners, then this might have appealed to more than just the Chardonnay brigade.
Verdict
Less than crowd-pleasing chick flick livened up by John Cusack’s self-penned one-liners.
Reviewed by Emma Cochrane
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