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Bookmark this pageA Previous Engagement (2005)
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
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From Time Out New York
Reasonably content middle-aged couple Julia and Jack (Stevenson, Stern) are on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Malta. But clueless Jack doesn’t know that Julia picked the spot because 25 years earlier, she and first love Alex (Karyo) promised to meet again at a small café. When Alex shows up swearing undying love, the wacky complications begin. British actor Stevenson can’t spin fluff into gold, but when she’s not being asked to dither like a moron, she brings some refreshing depth of feeling to writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin’s sitcomy farce about midlife longueurs and pretty Mediterranean scenery.Author: Maitland McDonagh
Time Out New York Issue 658: May 8-14, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Stern
Duration: 118 mins
US Release: May 9 2008
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