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www.darkhorizons.com - : 'Object' could've been the typical boring romantic drama you'd expect from Hollywood, but the great performances and the interesting spin on the story (straight woman falls for gay man) help raise it slightly above that line. Aniston delivers a powerful performance, a role with much more substance than any of her previous movies like ''Picture Perfect''. Many romance movies falter because the co-star can't match the other, but not only does Paul Rudd match Aniston - he exceeds her and plays a far more realistic & humble gay character than the usual stereotype Hollywood goes for. Rudd (best known for his roles in ''Clueless'', ''Romeo + Juliet'' & ''Halloween 6'') seems to be one of the few young more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : There is a movie fighting to get out of ``The Object of My Affection,'' and I like it better than the movie it's trapped in. It involves a wise old man who has arrived at some useful insights about life. If they did spinoffs of movie characters the way they do on TV, he'd be in a movie of his own. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : The Object of My Affection, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen McCauley, is a pleasant romantic comedy that asks (and tries to answer) questions about the nature of love, sex, family, and friendship. And, while some of the solutions are a little facile, the film nevertheless succeeds, due in large part to a luminous performance by Jennifer Aniston and the effectively-developed central relationship between Aniston's Nina Borowski, a pregnant twentysomething heterosexual, and George Hanson (Paul Rudd), a gay man in the same age range. more...
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