- 2003 - Down With Love - DVD Video
- Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Tony Randall
- Widescreen Edition - Rated PG-13
- New - With Bonus Features -
- Collectible
Renee Zellweger (Chicago) and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge) are the toast of the town in the most stylish romantic comedy of the year! From the producers of American Beauty and the director of Bring It On comes a teasing, tantalizing battle of the sexes that is "pure enchantment" (Daily News). When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor), these sparring, would-be lovers generate enough sparks to fly you to the moon and back. In other words, the ultimate catch has just met his match!The bright, glossy world of Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies gets a self-aware brush-up in
Down with Love. Pillow-lipped Renée Zellweger (
Ch! icago) plays Barbara Novak, the author of a bestselling book called
Down with Love that advises women to focus on their careers and have sex
à la carte--just like a man would. Determined to prove that Novak is just as vulnerable to love as any woman, dashingly chauvinist magazine writer Catcher Block (ever-charming Ewan McGregor,
Moulin Rouge) pretends to be a courtly astronaut who wouldn't dream of putting his hand on a woman's knee. This piffle of a story seems like nothing more than an excuse for ironic double-entendres and dazzling production design, until a sneaky plot twist suddenly raises the stakes for the movie's end. As he always does, the brilliant David Hyde Pierce (
Frasier) scores the most comic points as Block's fussy editor.
--Bret Fetzer![]()
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