Title: She Came To Me
OK. Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei in a Rom-Com. How bad could it be? Where to start?
Plot line 1. Anne Hathaway is a neurotic, germophobic therapist married to Peter Dinklage, a neurotic, obsessive, self-doubting operatic composer prone to panic attacks. He is current suffering a "writer's block" so his wife, who sees patients in her home office, sends him out for a walk to meet people and find ideas. He walks into a bar and meets Marisa Tomei, a neurotic, romance-addict who obsesses with any man she meets. She throws herself at Peter Dinklage. He then composes an Opera based on their meeting. Chaos ensues.
Plot Line 2. Two young teens are in love. Her step-father is a controlling ass and finds out that they have been having sex. She is 16, the boy just recently turned 18 and happens to be the son of Anne Hathaway. The father, who is a court reporter, is determined to get the boy charged with statutory rape. Chaos ensues.
Plot Line 3. Joanna Kulig is a Polish Immigrant, mother of the female teen and wife of the controlling asshole. She's also the housecleaner for Anne Hathaway. Chaos ensues. The sharp contrast between Hathaway's perfectly dressed, properly maintained and well made-up Patricia and Marisa Tomei's stark, rough, tugboat captain Katrina couldn't be greater. Even when "dressed up" for the Opera, Katrina looks like someone that's been through the wringer.
Peter Dinklage seems almost type-cast as the sad composer with the puppy dog eyes just trying to get through life while the world goes on around him. I thought he was much better in The Station Agent, a movie that if you haven't seen, should hunt down and watch.
Fun: The movie itself is rather enjoyable, though the only characters in the movie that seem relatively sane are the teens. You spend half of your time questioning how any of the adults have made it this far in life and the other half hoping that they just get out of their own way. It's like watching a slowly evolving train wreck where people just fail to step out of the way.
Preachy: Not really. Anne Hathaway's character has an obsession with Nuns, but there doesn't seem to really be anything faith-based behind it. She seems more interested in the simplistic, barren, highly regulated life of a nun than in actual Catholicism.
