Down With Love Review

IMDb Rating: 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 60%
Notable Cast/Crewmembers: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson, Rachel Dratch, Timothy Omundson
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Weirdly entertaining.
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It's 1962. Barbara Novak is the author of the bestselling novel Down With Love. This book tesches women that they, just like men, could and should have sex whenever they want, without love. Barbara is supposed to have a meeting with Catcher Block, journalist for the magazine Know and ladies man. Catcher is always 'busy' with other women when they are supposed to meet, and after a while, Barbara is so fed up with Catch that she tells him she never wants to see him again. Meanwhile, her book has become a worldwide succes and women everywhere start to become independent. Catcher can't get any woman anymore, and he is determined to bring Barbara's reputation down by making her fall in love with him, without wanting to have sex with him.
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It's funny (in a meta kind of way), the costumes are all beautiful and custom made, and it all feels like a movie from the sixties. The jokes are really corny, but if you see this as a film that doesn't take itself too seriously, that doesn't matter.
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Barbara Novak: Another ruse, Catcher? You know I have no interest in seeing you.
Catcher Block: But you know you have to, and you know I know you have to. I'm sure you know how things are at KNOW ever since your new NOW.
Barbara Novak: I have no way of knowing how things are now at KNOW. I knew how things were at KNOW before NOW.
Catcher Block: Then you should know now at KNOW things are a lot like they are at NOW, we have to interview every applicant for every job, and so do you or you'd be going against NOW's definition of discrimination and you wouldn't want the readers of NOW or KNOW to know that, now would you?
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-The Shy Hipster