Down With Love [2003]

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Amazon.co.uk Review The bright, glossy world of Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies gets a self-aware brush-up in Down with Love. Pillow-lipped Renée Zellweger (Chicago) plays Barbara Novak, the author of a bestselling book called Down with Love that advises women to focus on their careers and have sex à la carte--just like a man would. Determined to prove that Novak is just as vulnerable to love as any woman, dashingly chauvinist magazine writer Catcher Block (ever-charming Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge) pretends to be a courtly astronaut who wouldn't dream of putting his hand on a woman's knee. This piffle of a story seems like nothing more than an excuse for ironic double-entendres and dazzling production design, until a sneaky plot twist suddenly raises the stakes for the movie's end. As he always does, the brilliant David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) scores the most comic points as Block's fussy editor. --Bret Fetzer Product Description When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Renee Zellwegger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor), these sparring, would-be lovers generate enough sparks to fly you to the moon and back. In other words, the ultimate catch has just met his match! Review "A wonderfully silly homage the leads are both great!" -- Maxim "Fab-sexy gorgeous pastiche of those 60s flicks The battle of the sexes is on the button" -- New Woman " a witty, feelgood film" -- Cosmopolitan