Plot: Phoebe (Mary Steenburgen) and Jason (Dudley Moore) are a pair of Broadway playwrights who are partners in their chosen profession, but in spite of a definite inclination, they remain unpartnered (for a long time) in any other way. Read More
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By Karen Bliss As the opening credits roll in the new Canadian film 'Textuality,' an entire relationship begins and ends, from courtship to proposal to wedding day to... being left at the altar. The dumpee, Breslin (played by Jason Lewis of 'Sex and the...
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Mainstream romantic comedies generally suck. I know, because I have seen a lot of them, and they make me want to poke my own eyes out. The ones geared towards female audiences are actually worse than the Judd Apatow man-child ilk in my opinion. Although...
