Musings on movies, suitable for reading before or after you see them. I write about things I liked WITHOUT SPOILERS. The only thing I hate more than spoilers is reviewers' trashing movies because they think it makes them seem smart. Movie title links are usually links to blog posts. Click here for an alphabetized index of movies on this blog with a count.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Misconceptions (2008)
Lightweight and improbable, this farce about a religiously conservative married Southern woman who chooses to be a surrogate mother for a gay male couple because God spoke to her could be a Lifetime movie (I guess--I don't think I've ever watched one) except for the taboos. Starring A.J. Cook (one of the sisters in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and 107 episodes of Criminal Minds, which I haven't seen) as the surrogate and Sarah Carter (the take-no-prisoners lawyer on Shark (2006-08)) as her sister, both with accents so thick you could cut them with a knife, and David Moscow (young Josh in Big (1988), who grew up to look nothing like Tom Hanks) and Orlando Jones (7-Up pitchman, TV writer (including his own show), and lots of other credits, including my personal favorite: Little Melvin, the R&B musician, in Liberty Heights (1999)) as the prospective fathers. There were some laughs in it, but not enough, really.
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