We took in the latest romantic comedy, "Enough Said", today, and we both enjoyed it very much. It starred James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. Like most RomComs, you can pretty much see where it is headed, but so what? It was funny, touching, sad in parts, and it showed that two people don't have to be young and beautiful to be in love. Not that Ms. Louis-Dreyfuss isn't pretty, mind you, but she is no longer the young comic actress from Saturday Night Live days or the flighty Elaine Benes of Seinfeld. She is now 52 years old, but she wears her years well and has not succumbed to plastic surgeon's knife as so many actresses of a certain age in Hollywood have. Good for her.
The kicker of this movie is seeing James Gandolfini in one of his final roles. That was not Tony Soprano up there on the screen. A really good actor who left us far too young. If you stay for the credits, you will see a simple "For Jim" dedication.
Good movie.
As for the old movie, I thank Turner Classic Movies that enabled me to finally see this one:
I cannot believe that I had never seen this 1984 classic comedy take off on rock documentaries. Directed by Rob Reiner, the movie was written by and stars many of the actors who have appeared in the classic Christopher Guest comedies that were to follow such as Best in Show, A Might Wind, Waiting for Guffman, and others. These include Guest himself, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Fred Willard.
A really, really funny movie, that leaves you with one question: "Are we going to do Stonehenge tomorrow?"
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