- 2003 - Down With Love - DVD Video
- Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Tony Randall
- Widescreen Edition - Rated PG-13
- New - With Bonus Features -
- Collectible
DOWN WITH LOVE - DVD MovieThe 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 (
Chicago) 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