Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Movie #170 - Down With Love

Down With Love
2003 -Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 51 min
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, David Hyde Pierce

Wow, is this campy! But it's great because everyone in the cast totally buys into it.  Renee Zellweger prances around like the perfect 60's woman and it's adorably funny.  The costumes are great, the music is spot-on, and the "battle of the sexes" is fought in the perfect social atmosphere.  Housewives unite over a book and the men are running scared!

And once we get to see what these two are really all about, and the crazy mind games they're playing, it seems like the only possible conclusion for this satirical romp through 1960s culture.  Female empowerment or love and marriage? Do you have to choose one or the other?

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