Wimbledon:the film

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OMG, you guys. Nobody told me this has Kirsten Dunst AND tennis in it!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

LA PLAYS ITSELF >>>> WIMBLEDON

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't tell for sure but was she affecting a British accent in it?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why Adam is interested. "British."

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am looking forward to 2 hours of Kirsten Dunst in tennis apparel, apart from that it looks like a pleasant Hugh Grant-ish romantic comedy but without Hugh Grant.

xpost, I think she plays an American.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

She's still hot I think, but man, this looks like drivel to me.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

From the people that brought you...

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what brought me down to Earth.

Sam Neill doesn't look too convincing as the Heavy-Handed But Loving Father

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

tennis skirts!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all postered out. But still excited.

― HKM, Friday, 17 September 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"the golden girl meets the long shot" isn't it, or something? i guess "the non-seed" probably wouldn't have played. but gah how f*@cking boring can you get if that's the plot. can we pleeeze please please have just ONE movie that's about the golden boy who meets the oddball girl?? crap i just remembered that jennifer aniston/ben stiller flick

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

and 'she's all that'.

― HKM, Friday, 17 September 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

golden boy meets the odd ball-girl

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that so has to be wimbledon 2! (or maybe "US Open")

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Grand Slam

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

that'd be the box set.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Foot Fault.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

please have just ONE movie that's about the golden boy who meets the oddball girl??

like "valley girl" in reverse? i think there are a lot of movies that fit that description actually.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I made a similar point to Tracer a week or two ago, on some thread. Though I was bemoaning the lack of traditional, rich man meets poor woman storylines, being bored with the whole reverse Cinderalla thing.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Cinderella.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Spinderella (Fremme Neppa Venette) - rich music mogul meets impoverished female mixologist. Love blossoms.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Wimbledon
Capsule by Hank Sartin
From the Chicago Reader

As romantically entangled tennis stars at the eponymous tournament, Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst have the sun-drenched beauty of a couple carved from amber, but no movie can survive on good looks alone. Bettany gives it his damnedest and nearly overcomes the tired script, but Dunst, dragged down by bad dialogue and an underwritten character, doesn't fare as well. The film has a crazy, overpopulated feel, with nearly a dozen minor characters duking it out to fill the "charming secondary character" slot. Will it be Bettany's training partner? His roguish younger brother? Perhaps the amoral agent, or the spunky ball boy? Picking up on the script's scattershot feel, director Richard Loncraine never quite settles on a tone, veering from wacky comedy to earnest sports drama to romantic farce. The results are predictably muddled, if mostly harmless. PG-13, 100 min.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Am., you're better than this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Bettany, I am madly in love with you. But please stick to more seriousor more clownish (in the classical sense) roles and no more rom coms. But I will probably see this anyway.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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Am., you're better than this.
-- n/a (nu...), September 17th, 2004.

huh?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Bettany is too old, for Kirsten Dunst.

He can make a film with Kirsty wark: that would be acceptable.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

golden boy & oddball girl - 'sabrina'?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Breakfast at Tiffany's?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i see a great porn adaptation of this coming soon.

― splooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wimblebum.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Wimbledom (and sub)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wangerdong.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I meant 'Wangledong'

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll watch this on mute when it comes on tv, i think

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

to carcass'reek of putrefaction

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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