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Music From Another Room

Do you believe in fate? If not, then "Music From Another Room" probably won’t make you believe, but it’ll surely try its darndest. This movie is dripping with sickly sweet sap -- too much of it might give you a stomachache. However, it is so sappy that it becomes endearingly tacky. It’s just a shame that its wide-eyed optimism is so irksome and unrealistic.

Danny is a hopeless romantic having a rough time. He gets dumped, has no job and no place to live. While delivering for a bakery, he runs into Anna Swan, a girl he helped deliver one Thanksgiving dinner when he was five and then pronounced that he was going to marry her. He immediately falls for her and ingratiates himself into her dysfunctional family. Her sister is blind, her brother and his wife fight all the time, and Anna is left to take care of everyone. Danny must convince her that life is not about function, but should be lived with passion.

Danny, played by a young Jude Law, is so hopeless and guileless that he is funny despite himself. The extremes that he goes to to win Anna’s heart, such as dressing up as a pig to perform in her sister’s all female Medea, have a charming ridiculousness to them. The script, however, is predictable and contrived and Anna, played by Gretchen Mol, is atrociously annoying at times. The movie is good if you are in the mood for light entertainment, though. All it needs is a warning: do not watch when feeling cynical.

Written by: Marguerite Spellman

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