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Born Romantic

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United Kingdom · 2000
Rated R · 1h 36m
Director David Kane
Starring Craig Ferguson, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Catherine McCormack
Genre Comedy, Romance

In a London Salsa club, three men and three women pursue love and romance. Fergus is searching for his high school sweetheart Maureen, incompetent mugger Eddie falls for cemetery worker Jocelyn, and hopeless romantic Eddie pursues the snobbish Eleanor. Everyone crosses paths with Jimmy the cab driver, who's dealing with romantic issues of his own.

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80

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

Kane believes in happy endings, but he makes his characters earn theirs, as each couple is forced, ever so subtly, to face its own inner nonsense. The filmmaker has divine actors at his disposal.

80

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

In its own modest, genial terms, the picture succeeds: it never wants to be more than charming and sweet, and it invites us to imagine London as a cozy, happy small town where coincidental encounters are everyday occurrences.

60

Los Angeles Times by John Anderson

Although Born Romantic is sweetly intentioned and staunchly on the side of love, it meanders long to enough to alienate whatever affection it otherwise earns.

40

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The shame of it all is that Kane somehow managed to assemble an extraordinary cast, whose fine performances can't surmount the tedium of his script.

80

New Times (L.A.) by Luke Y. Thompson

Though perhaps too mainstream for the art-house crowd and too foreign for the multiplex, Born Romantic is a natural crowd-pleaser, and deserves to be more successful than its limited engagement may permit it to be.

80

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

Dancing, like being in love, sometimes means making a mess of things. Born Romantic makes glorious sense of that mess, trampled toes and all.

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