Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WITT,ALICIA
EAN: 0786936153699
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 75939
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD
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Rating:  - Another Great Movie
This is one of those movies you see advertised before the movie you just rented! But it is worth watching! This movie makes you laugh and you can relate to it! A great storyline that can be enjoyed by families (of adolesants) and college kids in their dorms!! Great movie!! Hands down worth your time money and the effort it takes to point and click BUY!
Rating:  - ALICIA WITT Knocks It Out Of The Field
I agree, this isn't the best movie ever made, but Alicia Witt carries this movie from start to finish. The whole idea of Harvey Fierstein being her mentor really works for me & she owns the role of Claire Goldstein. And with Elliott Gould & Marlo Thomas as your parents, what more could you ask for? It hits all the right notes.
Rating:  - Play it again
This is a good movie. It's not great but sometimes life is like that too. Not all neat and clean but more like something one lives through. I think it's a good story of what happens when you're in love, the other person moves on and you're not ready to let go. If you've never felt that you probably won't get this movie.
Rating:  - Lame, excruciating indie comedy with no laughs
Despite the presence of many "name" actors (Marlo Thomas, Elliot Gould, Harvey Fierstein, etc.) this is an embarasssing lame independent film that feels like a student project rather than a professional film. Apparently aiming to be a slice of life comedy, it falls very flat as most of the jokes are dated and extremely unfunny. The tone is very uneven and the setting -- contemporary San Francisco -- is poorly utilized.
"Playing Mona Lisa" is about a recent music conservatory grad, Claire Goldstein (Alicia Witt) is dumped by her boyfriend and goes into a tailspin of depression and bad luck. She's surrounded by "crazy" friends and family, including Harvey Fierstein as her gay piano teacher and parents Marlo Thomas and Elliot Gould. I can't give away any spoilers here because there aren't any -- nothing happens in the course of the film and none of Claire's problems or issues are resolved or even dealt with.
This is the kind of film that is written by someone who is either WAY out of touch with young people today -- someone well over 50 -- or someone from a foreign culture who has no idea how Americans live or act in the 90s. Claire -- a 21 year old college student -- apparently owns her own ROW HOUSE in SAN FRANCISCO...this would be virtually impossible unless her family were multi-millionaires as San Francisco is one of the most expensive housing markets in the US and Claire does not even have a job. Or maybe I have something with the multi-millionaire thing, because her parents ... Read More
Rating: - save your time
Please....read the reviews here and thought seeing it was worth a shot. If you like lame dialogue, self-absorbed characters and unamusing dreg, this movie is for you. I much prefer the Alicia Witt of The Sopranos. Oh yes, and I could not cut out the subtitles from the screen.
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