Even if the many faces he made were not really my thing, there were many other things that I liked about this movie. Thompson is great and her character is great; I like the way Dexter simply accepts many things of his life without shock or screams, like when he sees a naked man in his house (one of his landlady’s many lovers). He simply lowers his eyes and then asks her once who he is, and that’s it. I liked that, it’s very “live and let live”. I liked the kind of friendship between him and the landlady, when he would burst into her room talking about Kate, or when Dexter brings Kate home and she shakes hands with the same smile both to her and to her two lovers under the sheets. I didn’t laugh, but I liked it, I liked this light atmosphere of “live and let live”, if only more people were really like that instead of always judging and trying to change others.
Let's just not talk about Dexter's superman-piyamas ...
It’s the story of awkward Dexter who wants to be an actor but he’s so tall nobody has roles for him, so for the last years he’s done the assistant of famous comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson). He’s a bad case of allergy and is forced to see a doctor: he falls in love with the nurse who gives him the shots, and week after week he goes back and never speaks a word. He’s frustrated because he hates working with Ron, he has a phobia of injections and after two months he doesn’t even know her name. With the excuse of a trip to Marocco he goes back and this time he learns her name: Kate (Emma Thompson), but then she’s called away for an emergency and he’s given Fantozzi-like shots by a psychiatrist not very skilled in nursing, in what should be I guess a very funny scene but I didn’t find Goldblum’s faces very funny; to me it was a boring scene which lasted too long.
He’s getting worse at his job too, and realizing that he might need to talk to someone about it he calls an ex-girlfriend he didn’t really like, just to talk, but she thinks they’ll get married. At their table they meet Kate: a few words and they hurry out. They walk for a bit and then he leaves her and runs back to the hospital, to finally ask Kate out. She jokes a bit with him but then she accepts. When they meet, he’s late and she says she had a bad day at work and is too tired to go out, so she asks him to walk her home and then she tells him she’s all in favour of first-date-sex and tells him to meet her the next day at her place. He goes and they have sex, in a rather funny long scene in which they almost wreck the house in their passion :-p There’s only a little nudity (her breasts of course) and a lot of laughing and rolling :lol: after that he gets fired because he was late for the show; Kate goes to live with him, and they’re happy together. He looks for another acting job and after a few failed attempts he gets a part in a musical on the elephant man, playing the title part. Kate is very excited for him, but doesn’t know that as the rehearsals go on, Derek has a little affair with another actress, Cheryl. We know it happens at least once for sure, but maybe more. Finally the opening night, where a super-excited Kate comes in an ambulance in full sirens to make it in time :-p The show has some good singing and some dancing, and some satire, although there’s almost no elephant that I can see. Afterwards there’s a long reception with drinks all around. When they get home, while still talking about the night Kate packs her bag. When he finally notices and asks her what she’s doing, she simply states that she’s packing and leaving to never return. Why? Because he had an affair! She’s a smart girl, and understood the truth. He tries saying the usual ‘it was nothing’ or ‘she meant nothing’, I don’t remember, but she replies that when he was with Cheryl it was her, Kate, who was nothing, and she deserves more than that. Good girl.
He goes on working in the musical until the night of some awards ceremony, where the hated Anderson is not only nominated, but wins a prize, and what is worse Kate is there with him. Dexter loses it, he walks out before the show and goes to confront Anderson. He ties him up in a chair and yells to him, but when Dexter learns that there’s been nothing between him and Kate (maybe he thought she meant ‘every’ first date?? silly man, she liked him, she doesn’t like Anderson like that) he ‘borrows’ Anderson’s car and drives to the hospital where he talks to her who is still angry; at least now he can answer something to her question about Why? does he want to go out with her. They save a man’s life together and then in front of everybody, feeling much like the elephant man himself I guess, he apologizes and asks for another chance. She finally agrees and it’s happy ending.
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