After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Kathy Bates Rupert Everett Meredith Eaton Lynn Redgrave Dan Aykroyd Jonathan Pryce Peter Sarsgaard Richard Briers Stephanie Beacham Pat Finn Jack Noseworthy Dan Wyllie Marcia Warren Julie Andrews Barry Manilow Greg Pitts David Ryall Gregor Truter Heather Goldenhersh Beth Littleford Bitty Schram Tim Bohn Joel McKinnon Miller Rebekah Nanfria Rose Abdoo Sia A. Moody Anne Lambton David Darlow Sarah Peirse Show All…
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everyone should watch this!! it's wacky and funny and heartwarming, it's people learning to be loved and to stand up for themselves, it's about the transformative power of music through loneliness... it deals with relationship dynamics and familial ties in such a unique and refreshing way, i keep coming back to it and the joy i get out of the experience never diminishes.
*this review was written in may of 2011 and is reprinted to encourage more to encounter this film*
P.J. Hogan’s neglected masterpiece UNCONDITIONAL LOVE never found a theatrical release in America, receiving instead an informal premiere on the Stars television network in 2003 (the film was completed in 1999). For a film that deals with society’s forgotten, this is a bit of irony that lends a poignant, almost mythic stature to Hogan’s wildly inventive, perfectly structured comedy.
Here is a film you haven’t seen—but you must! Not only for the cinephile who will thrill at Hogan’s kinetic screwball aesthetic and daring (and very funny) pokes at the terminally serious DON'T LOOK NOW but also because UNCONDITIONAL LOVE offers through the…
AaaaAallLLlLlL over the place but oddly charming in its way, with some very funny moments mixed with some very weird ones. Kathy Bates is too toned down to really work as a lead character, but Meredith Eaton steals the show and Rupert Everett reminded me how hunky he is.
The most important thing about this movie is the opening credits sequence, with middle-aged Jonathan Pryce in a sequined suit dancing among the clouds, performing "Hitchcock Railway" with a trio of sexy ladies, and just fucking SELLING IT. It's honestly one of the best credits sequences I've ever seen.
gay, crip, wife solidairty!!! smash the family!!! how in the world was this so ignored. Masterful editing, bonkers storyline, genuinely nuanced characters. Truly a fucking classic.
Grace, if I was the vallet and you were the wife, then neither of us have existed for some time.
Achingly camp and sincere – I'm having such a sad time of it because my cat is dying but this was fantastic and chaotic and unexpected and helped.
"Don't let me die in a glitter suit!"
a delight every time. what stood out with this viewing is how the film manages to poke fun at the commercial falsity that permeates celebrity culture without patronizing people who find comfort and meaning in parasocial relationships (sorry for the buzzword). what fantasies we project unto our favourite performers can be hugely formative, even when we know (consciously or unconsciosly) that those fantasies don't - indeed cannot - reflect reality.
Good God, who did the marketting for this film ?!?
It's not what you think at all. The three main characters are a middle aged housewife (lord knows i love me some Kathy Bates♥), a gay man and a little woman and they're all terrific ! Together they end up trying to find the killer of a famous singer, loved very much by Bates' character who also happens to be the mans deceased partner.
The story makes for an extravagant comedy! Do recommend, it's actually really funny !
Me había olvidado por completo de la existencia de esta película, que en su momento llegó a mis manos creo que uno de esos VHS de difusión que entregaban las editoras y que por alguna razón terminé no viendo a pesar de PJ Hogan, un director a quien quiero un montón. Hace unos días fui a parar a un par de reseñas de esta película acá en lbxd y decidí rastrearla en sitios de torrent sin éxito. Por suerte alguien tenía publicada en ML la edición local en DVD y estaba a 100 pesito, así que no lo dudé. Y qué suerte que no lo dudé, porque es una gran película: una comedia espectacular y llena de sorpresas, con un…
I can't help it, don't even want to when something finds me like this one did. 5 star for this hidden little gem that filled my heart with love, I laughed and cried, I was singing along with them. They don't make movies like this anymore or maybe they do, but those rarely get to me on an emotional level and they're just boring and something is always missing. It's eventually a rom-com about friendship, grief, loving someone or something unconditionally. It's about the ordinary people who used to dream but didn't fight enough for them and settled down with little. This poster doesn't do justice for this movie. It's Rupert Everett and Kathy Bates, they form an unlikely friendship…
