Review of Serious Moonlight (2009) by Luke C — 20 Sep 2016
"Serious Midnight" is a farewell to the late Adrienne Shelly (who wrote the screenplay and it's the last) and directed by her "Waitress" co-star Cheryl Hines. Meg Ryan plays Louise a successful lawyer who comes home early to her husband Ian (Timothy Hutton) to surprise him only to discover that the house is decorated.
Quickly to discover that he decorated the cottage for his girlfriend Sara (Kirsten Bell) for a romantic weekend in Paris and Ian wants a divorce. He purposes the idea to get a divorce, Louise wants to work things out, so she ends up tying him.
Just when you thought couldn't get any worse a burglar (played by Justin Long) robs their house and hilarity is suppose to ensue. This definitely isn't better than Shelly's other film Waitress, but there's lot of effort her and I don't blame the performances from Ryan, Hutton, Bell and Long but it's okay.
The screenplay isn't funny which is shocking because Shelly is capable of good comedy but it's has positives and it's flaws.The script is okay but entertaining also interesting and the direction by Hines is REALLY bad, but the result it's okay could of been better but I'm fine with what we have, the performances outshine the film.
3/5 stars.
This review of Serious Moonlight (2009) was written by Luke C on 20 Sep 2016.
Serious Moonlight has generally received mixed reviews.
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