"Some Girls" was an out-of-competition picture in the United States Film Festival this past January, produced and directed by the team that gave us "Restless Natives" and "Promised Land." (And as with the latter, Robert Redford is executive producer here.)
Patrick Dempsey ("In the Mood," "Can't Buy Me Love") is the college kid in love with a French student (Jennifer Connelly) who has left him and gone back home to France. To his surprise, she invites him to visit over Christmas and he agrees, having no idea of the situations he will encounter with her eccentric family.
The family includes her two free-spirited sisters, her stiff-necked mother, her Bohemian father and her ditzy grandmother, along with the added complication of one sister's insensitive boyfriend.
On the whole, some of the complications and eccentricities seem forced and stagey (there's even a rehash of the familiar gag about two kids in a sexual situation being surprised for one's birthday party), but there are some sweet moments and several very funny scenes, mostly of the door-slamming, mistaken identity variety. Andre Gregory easily steals the show in a hilarious turn as the father.
"Some Girls" is rated R for sex, nudity, profanity, vulgarity, violence and drugs.
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I saw this movie years ago and have been trying to purchase
it since
then. I thought that it was far from the silly, romantic
comedy that it
initially appeared to be. I found it thought provoking and
haunting. The
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The reviewer Chris Hicks never saw the movie though he
writes a review about it. Gaby isn't French, and the movie
takes place in Montreal, not France. Who is this Hicks guy
and why is he so illiterate? More to the point, why is More..