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Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) has a massive gambling problem that has left him with a debt to the maffia of $100,000. His only possible way out is to write a book within 30 days and sell it to his publisher for $125,000. This however is greatly afflicted by two things, firstly the maffia tossed ... Read review
Publish or perish! Alex has just 30 days to finish his romance novel and collect his ... more
writing fee - money he owes to loan sharks threatening his life. So stressed-out Alex hires Emma to be his stenographer and discovers she's opinionated, direct, a caus...
Alex has writer's block with a deadline to meet and loan sharks give him thirty days to ... more
come up with money to pay back gambling debts. He hires stenographer Emma to help him complete his manuscript and her input begins to influence both Alex and his story which in turn starts to influence real life events...
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Tony Dow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Challis, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gwyneth Strong
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Advantages: Cute and cuddly film for cold nights when theres nothing better to do Disadvantages: Tries painfully hard to be the success that 'Harry met Sally' was
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Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) has a massive gambling problem that has left him with a debt to the maffia of $100,000. His only possible way out is to write a book within 30 days and sell it to his publisher for $125,000. This however is greatly afflicted by two things, firstly the maffia tossed his laptop into the fire and secondly, he has writters block.
It seems to Alex that the only solution to this new ... ...who is furious to find Alex is not a law firm. But after learning of his situation and reading the end of his last novel she agrees to help him.
Alex then begins to reel off his novel to her which parts of are also acted out for us to see. As the real life story and the fictional one start to run parallel to each other, Emma wonders about how true the fictional one really is.
Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) has a massive gambling problem that has left him with a debt to the maffia of $100,000. His only possible way out is to write a book within 30 days and sell it to his publisher for $125,000. This however is greatly afflicted by two things, firstly the maffia tossed his laptop into the fire and secondly, he has writters block.
It seems to Alex that the only solution to this new problem is to hire a stenographer under the guise of a law firm. This results in the second half of the film...Emma Dinsmore (Kate hudson) who is furious to find Alex is not a law firm. But after learning of his situation and reading the end of his last novel she agrees to help him.
Alex then begins to reel off his novel to her which parts of are also acted out for us to see. As the real life story and the fictional one start to run parallel to each other, Emma wonders about how true the fictional one really is.
This is a problem when Alex and Emma's relationship takes a turn for the more romantic.
I will not even being to say that this even in my favorite chick flicks of all time. It is watchable and entertaining but only as a last resort. The story line is basic and mediocre, but the acting by Luke Wilson is as always excellent. Even if this possibly isnt the role he is cut out for in films.
Alex has writer's block with a deadline to meet and loan sharks give him thirty days to come up with money to pay back gambling debts. He hires stenographer Emma to help him complete his manuscript and her input begins to influence both Alex and his story which in turn starts to influence real life events...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
12/07/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
D 028387
Barcode
7321900283878
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Commentary - 1. Rob Reiner - Director, Trailer
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English
DVD Description
ALEX AND EMMA is the perfect date movie, courtesy of veteran comedy director Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE). Luke Wilson plays Alex, a struggling writer who owes $100,000 to Cuban loan sharks. If he could only finish his romance novel in thirty days he would earn a big enough advance to pay them off, but before he can even start, the thugs destroy his lap top. Enter Emma (Kate Hudson) the prim, highly opinionated stenographer Alex convinces to help him. The rest of the film then oscillates between their present-day budding romance and the 1920s setting of Alex's story, wherein a tutor named Adam (Wilson again) takes a job at a lush country manor and falls for his beautiful employer, Polina (Sophie Marceau). Hudson appears in the story as Anna, the au pair of Adam's student, and with Emma's input, her character eventually supplants Polina as the novel's primary romantic heroine. All in all, it's an amusing tale of how real-life romance can affect the outcome of romantic fiction, and is loosely based on the true story of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who fell in love with his own stenographer over the course of writing THE GAMBLER. In the Emma/Anna role, Hudson proves herself an adept comedienne, and she and Wilson share a natural, easygoing chemistry.
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