Music From Another Room (1998)

Formulaic "Music" hits all right notes with excellent ensemble cast.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is definitely not just another romantic comedy. Yes, much of this screenplay is formulaic where you will know what is going to happen next, but so what-it works, and most effectively. From the very moment that young Danny is asked to reach in Brenda Blethyn's womb to untangle the umbilical chord wrapped around her birthing-baby's neck, we enter the unusual world of passion,fate and destiny. Forward around twenty years and Danny (a very funny and appealing Jude Law) is destined by fate to meet the baby he helped deliver and has vowed to marry.

What puts this rom-com above many others is the EXCEPTIONAL ensemble cast of actors that understand their parts and act them to the hilt.In fact, other than Gretchen Mol's character Anna, the baby grown up, who's character is overly responsible and self-deprived of passion ( therefore rightly not so animated) the rest of the cast, Brenda Blethyn, Jennifer Tilly,Jane Adams, Jeremy Piven, and ESPECIALLY Martha Plimpton and Vince Laresca are comedically quite effective in saving this film from becoming ordinary.

Yes, this film is formulaic,but think about it-formulas are time tested and true-that's why they work. MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM just does it a bit better than most hitting all the right notes.

A sweet movie
I like this movie with the ensemble cast. It has interesting story lines with the characters. I like the premise that following one's passion isn't always easy, but to live a life without passion is to resign to "death" of your soul.

A sweet movie
I like this movie with the ensemble cast. It has interesting story lines with the characters. I like the premise that following one's passion isn't always easy, but to live a life without passion is to resign to "death" of your soul.