I usually like Julianne Moore, but not here. The movie was not bad, I liked a lot Pierce Brosnan as Daniel Rafferty, Michael Sheen as the singer Thorne, and Parker Posey as Serena, I liked her a lot, and Frances Fisher as Audrey’s mom was fabulous, and Nora Dunn as the judge was the funniest part, but Moore’s character Audrey Woods sounded so fake, it was not very likable, sometimes very annoying… I didn’t like her at all in this movie, and she’s like the lead character,so… I never thought I’d say this before seeing this movie, but I think it’d have been better with a different actress… sorry, I saw her in many other movies and she was spectacular, so I feel bad about saying this, but it is what it is.
The story: Audrey is a divorce lawyer who’s never lost a case, but now she finds herself against a new attorney, new in town that is, but with a brilliant career as well: Rafferty. He’s very different: she’s very uptight and rather arrogant and cold, while he likes to tease her and is more loose and… well, more like a normal human.
He wins the case against her, then talks to the press teasing her, and she feels challenged. There’s a scene where she goes to his office to talk to him but he’s not there, and the makes stuff fall on the floor than tries to clean things up and runs away when she hears him coming… and it suppose that should have been a funny scene, but she was not funny and it was not clear why she thought she had to run, she had come there to meet him after all…
Later they arrange a meeting, and he takes her to a Cuban club. She says it’s only a business meeting, not a date, because she doesn’t believe in marriage and therefore she doesn’t date… yeah right.
They have a drink and he says that it means “just because I’m trying to kill you it doesn’t mean that I don’t love and respect you”. She takes it as a challenge and keeps drinking to show off, she gets totally drunk, kisses him and sleeps with him. In the morning, they both have to go to trial and he plays dirty, holding her panties in his hand to throw her off.
They keep facing each other in court many times, and he keeps asking her out and she keeps saying no.. pride I guess.
Then, she hears that a fashion designer, Serena, wants to divorce her famous husband, Thorne, and tries to get her as her client, but she goes for Daniel, so Audrey go to Thorne offering her services, so that they are again against each other.
Serena and Thorne say they don’t care about it, they merely want their castle in Ireland.. both of them, so Daniel and Audrey go there to determine who it belongs to… both, of course.
They both attend the local festival, full of dance and drinks; they get drunk, they dance, and they get married.
She’s out of her mind, tells all about it to her mother, wants it to be annulled, but then news go out and it appears in a newspaper, so now they decide it’s best for their careers to pretend it’s true and act like they meant it. From now on, they fight in court and then go home to live together at her house. It seems to go well until he finds a document in the trash: she was throwing it away, he reads it, and finds out something that should have been kept private, lawyer/client confidentiality or something, and obviously Thorne is very upset.
She’s hurt that he used that and tells him she wants a divorce.
When their clients go to the castle they need to get them back because it is still part of the trial. In Ireland, they find out that the guy at the festival was not a real priest, it was just a bit of folklore, they’re not really married. At this point he leaves, but she realizes she doesn’t want him to, so she goes after him. Back in New York she goes to see him and clear things up, and they call the judge to get married for real. Really, the judge’s scenes and the mother’s scenes were the best of all.
Thorne and Serena of course got back together as well, before they did.
That’s it.
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