Synopsis
Love at first sight. Consequences to follow.
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
Cousins
Cast
Ted Danson Isabella Rossellini Sean Young William Petersen Lloyd Bridges Norma Aleandro Keith Coogan George Coe Katharine Isabelle Alex Bruhanski Stephen E. Miller Gordon Currie Saffron Henderson Michele Goodger Andrea Mann Mark Frank LeRoy Schulz Gloria Harris John Civitarese Kate Danson David Robert John Hurwitz Babs Chula Bernadette Leonard Denalda Williams Margot Pinvidic Tom McBeath Dolores Drake Michael Naxos Show All…
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Alternative Titles
A Touch of Infidelity, Cugini, Un toque de infidelidad, Seitensprünge, בני דודים, Братовчеди, Kuzyni, Um Toque de Infidelidade, Кузены, Primos, Кузени, 밀애, 亲亲表妹, Utroskab
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Theatrical
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USAPG-13
25 May 1989
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Argentina13
03 Aug 1990
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Germany12
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27 Jan 2003
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Brazil12
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Argentina
25 May 1989
- Theatrical13
Brazil
27 Jan 2003
- Physical12 Paramount mj.gov.br
Germany
03 Aug 1990
- Theatrical12
USA
10 Feb 1989
- TheatricalPG-13
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God bless Joel Schumacher and his wild career. One never knows what they're gonna get when they tune into a Schumacher joint.
He can venture into pure camp (the Batmans, Lost Boys), Grisham-esque melodrama (A Time to Kill, The Client), schlocky thrillers (8MM, The Number 23, Trespass), insightful drama (Falling Down, Tigerland), questionable detours (Veronica Guerin, Flawless), fun escapism (Flatliners, Phone Booth), emotional minefields (Dying Young, St Elmo's Fire), what-the-hell-is-this (Twelve, Bad Company, Phantom of the Opera), and seriously-what-the-fuck-is-happening (Blood Creek, D.C. Cab).
What category does Cousins fit in? None of the above since it's in a league of its own. Cousins is nothing like anything Schumacher has ever done. This warm-hearted love story features two middle-aged souls in unhappy…
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Guys, I could write 5,000 words about how batshit insane this movie is but I will resist temptation. I'll hit you with a few bullet points detailing why this was some of the most fun I've had watching a movie this year:
-Ted Dansen's character is named Larry Kozinsky (COUSIN-SKI)
-His son, Mitch, is an anarchist high school senior who shares porn with his grandpa
-His wife, Tish, constantly insists that she is not dumb
-His dad, Vince, hits on his dead brother's widow until they get married in the final scene
-They don't even have to be cousins for the plot to work!!
-There is an abrupt death scene, drenched in sweat post-sex Ted Dansen, 3 wedding scenes and… -
In between The Lost Boys and Flatliners, Joel Schumacher remade a French comedy with couples swapping and more than one character saying "lick my squirrel". It's unlike anything else he made yet as assured as his best work.
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This Vancouver-shot remake of COUSIN, COUSINE (1975) from Joel Schumacher reads like an outlier in his filmography (especially post-Lost Boys) but actually suits his style and skillset really well.
Where his unsubtle visual style sometimes juts up against itself, here it works and Schumacher can sell the chaotic schmaltz of a wedding in one scene and the beams-of-light in a darkened ballroom post-wedding hangover vibe the next.
Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini have such an easy-going kind of mis-matched chemistry here that is really charming and helps carry the movie where it would otherwise falter. Sean Young is maybe the secret MVP of the picture, and Keith Coogan is saddled with some of the weakest material as the son, but…
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isabella rossellini is so beautiful in this film I shed a single tear while watching
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Adapted from a French film, seemingly via BabelFish. Weird movie with a variety of haircuts. I miss the '80s, when even PG sex was indicated by copious post-coital sweating. Apropos of nothing, William Petersen plays a guy named Tom. You wait the whole movie to find out his last name, and there it is suddenly on a door:
Hardy.
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The family stuff in this is very "we have Moonstruck at home," but Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini have genuinely great chemistry.
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Unexpectedly sincere and poignant, with a fantastic early-career score by Angelo Badalamenti. I'm not sold on Ted Danson as a leading man, and throughout he reminds me why he was always my least favorite actor on Cheers. But there's more than enough here from Isabella Rossellini and Sean Young to make up for it. It's a shame Young's career never really broke through, as she demonstrates a depth and range here that her roles rarely allow.
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Joel Schumacher’s ‘three weddings and a funeral.’
I had no expectations whatsoever for ‘Cousins’ it was a Joel Schumacher movie that was free to watch on Prime. From what I’ve seen, it’s Schumacher’s best film.
Ted Danson doesn’t usually rate for me as a film actor. ‘Creepshow’ and ‘ Gullivers Travels’ being two examples of good movies Danson is in, but they aren’t made better or worse by his presence. In ‘Cousins’ Danson plays the ultimate romantic good guy. Father to a teenage son Keith Coogan and married to Sean Young, not the mother of his child. While at the wedding of an uncle Danson’s cousin William Peterson, slips off with Young and it is implied that they had sex.… -
Low key dramedy of two married couples essentially switching partners via each one having a not very well hidden affair with the other couple's significant other. William Petersen and Sean Young immediately hook up at a wedding while Petersen's wife played by Isabella Rosselini starts more of an emotional (but platonic) affair with Young's husband who's played by Ted Danson. The connection between Danson and Rosselini is the one the movie wisely focuses more on (it doesn't help that Petersen is kind of a one dimensional character--i mean he's good and he acquires a little more depth as the film goes on, but he's like playing the kinda crass, ill tempered fast talker that Richard Dreyfuss used to specialize in…
