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Review - Laws of Attraction
Audrey and Daniel are competing divorce attorneys in NYC. Daniel is immediately attracted to Audrey, but she professes to hate him. Their work keeps sticking them together. During one meeting, they both get drunk and end up in bed. This just leads to more fighting, which continues for several cases. Then they end up on opposite sides of a case in which a famous designer is divorcing their rock star husband. Both want to keep their castle in Ireland, so Audrey and Daniel go to the castle to interview the staff to try to determine who deserves to keep it. While there, they attend a folk festival and get drunk. They wake up in the morning to discover that they’ve evidently gotten married by the village priest.
Back in NYC, their marriage is reported in the press. They live (platonically) in Audrey’s apartment and pretend to have a happy marriage while actually getting along quite well in spite of themselves. Audrey wants to get a divorce, but Daniel is seriously in love with her. He doesn’t want to fight, so he agrees to the divorce. But before that happens, their case sends them back to the castle to retrieve the designer and rock star. Those two have actually decided to try to save their marriage, so the case is over. But before Audrey and Daniel leave, they discover that the butler at the castle is the “priest” who married them. They haven’t really gotten married at all. Daniel takes off for home. Audrey follows and soon realizes that she loves him. She goes to his place and they soon get married for real.
Although there wasn’t much to it, and the characters weren’t terribly moral, I rather enjoyed the play between them. I would have liked it better if someone else had played Audrey. I don’t think Julianne Moore is at all attractive, and she can’t act either. Her way of showing any emotion is to make her eyes real large and stare like a deer caught in headlights. Still, it was entertaining enough.
Back in NYC, their marriage is reported in the press. They live (platonically) in Audrey’s apartment and pretend to have a happy marriage while actually getting along quite well in spite of themselves. Audrey wants to get a divorce, but Daniel is seriously in love with her. He doesn’t want to fight, so he agrees to the divorce. But before that happens, their case sends them back to the castle to retrieve the designer and rock star. Those two have actually decided to try to save their marriage, so the case is over. But before Audrey and Daniel leave, they discover that the butler at the castle is the “priest” who married them. They haven’t really gotten married at all. Daniel takes off for home. Audrey follows and soon realizes that she loves him. She goes to his place and they soon get married for real.
Although there wasn’t much to it, and the characters weren’t terribly moral, I rather enjoyed the play between them. I would have liked it better if someone else had played Audrey. I don’t think Julianne Moore is at all attractive, and she can’t act either. Her way of showing any emotion is to make her eyes real large and stare like a deer caught in headlights. Still, it was entertaining enough.
Reviewed by Roger on 2008-08-05 14:06:57