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I love, loved, loved this movie. This movie is right up there with Bridget Jones' Diary, You've got Mail, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The movie is based on Ben Elton's book, Inconceivable, which takes a witty look at Elton's real infertility experiences with his wife before the birth of their child. The movie handles the whole infertility problem in a witty yet touching way. Rowland Atkinson is a stitch as the gynecologist. Joely Richardson is radiant, as Lucy, and there is really warm chemistry with Hugh Laurie who is quite surprisingly a charming and handsome leading man. So nice to see Hugh Laurie in this role instead of his more usual broadly comedic roles. James Purefoy is DIVINE as the movie star client and Purefoy plays this role beautifully giving the role a credibility and humor which must have been difficult. When James Purefoy recites Sonnet XVIII, I certainly felt like the girls in the agent's office in the film-knock me over with a feather. What a handsome, charming, smoothie is James Purefoy. There were several really clever lines in the film. On hearing Carl Phipps recite the sonnet, his agent, played brilliantly by Joanna Lumley, says, "Why Mr. Phipps you are perilously close to turning me back into a heterosexual." Joely Richardson's character, Lucy, keeps a diary and in it she writes about her little crush on Carl Phipps. In the diary, Lucy writes, " I saw Carl Phipps today. He came into the office looking all brooding and byronic like the dispossessed lord of a bleak Moreland estate." Anyway, the whole film is a delight, and I enjoyed it on so many levels-the trying to have a baby issue, the marriage is not all moonlight and magnolias issue, the little crush on Carl Phipps issue, the odd colleagues at work stuff, etc. Go see the movie! The soundtrack was also great! true story
I actually saw this film last year in Australia, and the reason for watching it was a radio interview I heard with the author, Ben Elton. He's a british Stand-Up comedian, a writer, an actor and producer. And he's FUNNY! The story of the film has many autobiographical elements, because Elton and his wife went through the pains of infertility, after discovering that the effort of using contraceptives for years and years was completely useless! Hugh Laurie and Joley Richardson play the couple in an extraordinarily funny way, the story is good and it's told good. I definitely liked the movie, and when it's shown in the US eventually, I will go and see it again. My [rear]... is an orange
Oops! I got edited... I chose that subject heading because that was the title that the director guy in the book of this movie wanted to call the movie that the character in the book wrote the script for. Confused? Sorry, there's no need to be. Just watch the movie and read Ben Elton's 'Inconceivable' like I did and it will all make sense!! This movie displayed fantastic English humour as well as touching romance. Not to mention tackling the sensitive subject of Infertility. You find yourself laughing at the fact that Hugh Laurie's Sam has to shove a container of man juice up his bottom to keep it warm, yet at the same time, you feel sad because no matter what they put themselves through, Sam and Lucy just can't seem to get pregnant. And to make matters worse, ignorant old Sam isn't giving Lucy the attention she deserves!! Hugh Laurie was absolutely gorgeous and Joely Richardson was stunning. It was funny yet sad, and seemed to present both a bloke's and a woman's point of view in the most honest of ways. I felt all fuzzy and lovey towards my partner afterwards, and I think it would probably have that effect mainly on people who are in a long-term relationship. The one-liners are brilliant and there are cameos from a few great English actors that we all know and love. What can I say? I love it! I had a tear and a giggle.
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