Love and Other Disasters (2006)

Because1. It stars the very pretty Santiago Cabrera (who looks just wrong without a beard and moustache) and the gorgeous and lost-too-soon Brittany Murphy2. It's a story about a gay best friend which won't make you cringe, and actually puts him and his needs and his romance ahead of the female lead's3. Tango!4. Catherine Tate is hilarious, and her double act with Stephanie Beacham is a scream5. It uses modern London as a backdrop very nicely (please to be excusing the blatant b*llsh*t about how Heathrow and registry office marriages work)6. It includes the most accurate description of the stages of a relationship I've ever heard7. It's funny enough to make you pee8. It's just lovely

Yes, Brittany Murphy has a horrible accent in this movie. That however is explained half way into the movie when she reveals she was born in England, her parents died, she was shipped off to family that lived in the US, then returned to England. So she really doesn't have an English accent more of just a formal way of speaking. Yes the accents were horrible, but I love this movie though. Funny though that Matthew Rhys who was born in Wales and spoke Welsh for a good part of his life, does an American accent better than a London accent but just saying London accent is like saying an apple. If you've met 2 people from London you know none of them talk exactly alike.Poking fun at the romantic comedy genre, every character in this movie is an emotional mess. Brittany's character breaks up with her boyfriend, only to continue dating him and having sex with him, but insisting they've broken up. The one guy she has a true emotional connection with in the movie besides Matthew Rhys' character, Paulo is because she thinks he's gay and she doesn't stand a chance. Matthew Rhys character is gay and falls in love with men until he actually gets to know them, then finds some flaw in them and sneaks out the back door. He spends most of the movie, trying not to be set up with the man of his dreams, only to find out he got the guys name wrong, actually goes out with the man of his dreams only to find himself bored to tears. Catherine Tate's character is an emotional train wreck with Sybil at the switch, and I absolutely love Stephanie Beacham as her mother.This movie might not win any awards but it got some good laughs from me, kept my interest, and I wasn't bored.

Poorly acted…very poorly acted. That is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this movie. I usually like Brittany Murphy's movies…but this one…not so good. She tried to put on this obviously fake British accent…and it fails. I feel so bad for saying some of this, because I know that this was one of her last movies she made before she died. She didn't really go out with a bang like Heath Ledger did with Batman. I just wished there was more of a love story and a romance...maybe a spark...but there was nothing! Oh well, it's not a terrible movie...definitely worth watching once...but maybe just once.For daily movie reviews visit: kimsmoak.com now!

This film was a mixed success for me. Being a comedy-of-errors kind of film, it surely has to make it new, as so many films came before it;and, yes, it is true, Brittany Murphy, seems somewhat - not quite displaced, not quite doing an effort - but she is not aesthetically ruinous, I mean, the film has pace problems, wants to include too many things, has some true moments of dialogue and nuanced English acting that make it work and truly redeem it, others that seem preheated --but!watch it just for the sake of Dawn French, playing the psychotherapist with such gusto, that even if it's for two minutes, it's a riot!We can comment on the rest of the film, this way, and that way, but just for this, it's a must see.