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Bookmark this pageForces of Nature (1999)
Director: Bronwen Hughes
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From Time Out Film Guide
A bumbling and typically charmless latter-day studio screwball comedy. Ben (Affleck) is flying to Savannah, Georgia, to marry Bridget (Tierney). He's evidently too stiff backed for happy marriage, because he won't admit he's apprehensive. Thus the screenplay throws a seagull in the plane's works and packs him off cross-country with a fellow passenger, kooky, emotionally battered Sarah (Bullock), to test his heart. To compensate for the lack of chemistry between the leads and in the script, director Hughes adds a spattering of vapid sunsets, loud hail and high storms to suggest some sort of elemental struggle. The various contemporary pop songs plastered over the soundtrack are equally pointlessly. Anyway, beyond the fumbled technique, Tierney is so patently the better bet that Ben's problem really looks like one of transport.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Producer: Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth, Ian Bryce
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, Janet Carroll, Bert Remsen, Ronny Cox, Michael Fairman full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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