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Director: Clare Kilner
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From Time Out London
The plot of Emily Giffin’s 2005 best-selling novel is pure soap opera: best friends Darcy (Kate Hudson) and Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) fall for the same guy, Dex (Colin Egglesfield); he gets engaged to one and falls in love with the other. But ‘Something Borrowed’ never comes to terms with the fact that its object of desire is a colossal prick.Beginning with a surprise birthday party, the movie shuttles back and forth between Dex and Rachel’s law-school meeting and his impending wedding to Darcy. Neither Rachel, the consistently upstaged underdog, nor the groom-to-be has the gumption to act on their feelings until the nuptials are nigh; cue laughter, sighs and lots of running in the rain.
Still, no amount of gloss can turn Egglesfield’s two-timer into a hero and his bland performance doesn’t help. This rom-com has something old, something borrowed and something blue; the something new, however, is missing.
Author: Sam Adams
Time Out London Issue 2124 - May 5-11 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Clare Kilner
Cast: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Holland Taylor, Jack Davenport, Jeremy Sheffield
Rated: 12A
Duration: 113 mins
UK Release: Feb 18 2005
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