Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Hugh Grant
Director: Marc Lawrence (Music and Lyrics, Two Weeks Notice)
Running Time: 1 hr 43 min
Release Date: Dec. 18, 2009
Budget: $58 million
Critics’f Thumbs Up: 24%
“[Grant] is once again the prime minister of cute comedy.” Kyle Smith, New York Post
“…forgettable and lackluster…” Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
You may not have heard about the Morgans per say, but you have definitely seen this routine fish-out-of-water romantic comedy before. Here Parker and Grant play Meryl and Paul Morgan, a wealthy Manhattan couple with the perfect life, albeit with the far from perfect marriage. After they witness a murder, they join the Witness Protection Agency and are sent off to Wyoming where they – surprise, surprise – get into clumsy, unfunny predicaments and might even just fall in love again. Parker and Grant, aided by their respective charms, make a worthy effort, but the predictability and dull humor and dialogue will make you wish you hadn’t seen or heard about the Morgans.
