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Judging by some recent romantic comedies however light
or dark, such as Serious Moonlight and Did You Hear About
The Morgans?, the most effective ultimate aphrodisiac lately
when it comes to rekindling doomed conjugal bliss, seems
to be criminal activity. So what may be emerging, is the
exceedingly odd hybrid genre, the romantic comedy crime
caper. Move over, Viagra and sex toys.***
Written and directed by Marc Lawrence (Miss Congeniality)
and alternately sweet and spicy, though somewhat mischievous
too, Did You Hear About The Morgans? spotlights designated
battling ex-lovebirds Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker
as Paul and Meryl Morgan. While enjoying high end successful
Manhattan careers as a lawyer and luxury digs real estate
agent respectively, the same cannot be said for their marriage,
which unravels after Paul confesses to an extra-marital
one night fling with a colleague.***
And when Paul is sent away to live in a hotel but constantly
begs forgiveness, an emotionally bruised Meryl won't hear
of it. Though she does agree to dinner, an ill-fated decision
which finds the couple in a luckless situation, as reluctant
eyewitnesses to a drug lord execution in progress. A predicament
which lands them, to their dismay, in a federal witness
protection program for their own good.***
Bidding tearful farewell to her cherished cell phone
and closet overflowing with designer duds, Meryl is packed
off to rural Wyoming with the least likely guy she's in
favor of ever being stuck with, and 24/7 no less. Worse
still, is the blue state couple's red state encounter with
gun toting locals. Not to mention their rancher hosts, or
rather stern wardens, the Wheelers (Mary Steenburgen and
Sam Elliott), along with a strictly enforced regimen of
communications device deprivation. As in no phones, computers
or Palm Pilots, period.***
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DVD
Outtakes; Commentary with Director Marc Lawrence and
stars Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker; Featurettes:
Location, Location, Location: The Making Of Did You Hear
About the Morgans?; Cowboys and Cosmopolitans: The Stars
of Did You Hear About the Morgans?; Park Avenue Meets Prairie:
The Fashions of Did You Hear About the Morgans?; A Bear
of a Scene: Behind the scenes with the bear trainer from
the film; International Making-of Special; Deleted Scenes.
*** Blu-ray Extras: MovieIQ; BD-Live.***
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