Undescribable Perfection

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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

There's nothing very good about the movie, except the jokes. Granted, most of them are based on the "how city folks can't handle the country", so, if you just don't like those kind of jokes, they won't appeal to you. But, if you take them for what they are, they are good.The story, the acting, the directing, the pace... all of it is mostly bland and mediocre. But the jokes, while being mostly single-themed, are very diverse in their set-up, punchline-point, execution.Yes, Hugh Grant does seem to just "go through the motions", "doing his thing", but, in many jokes, his performance is "part of the joke". Similar goes for the rest of the cast, though Sarah Jessica Parker does seem to try to do something somewhat specific for this part - unfortunately, she fails to render an interesting performance.Bottom line, it's quite entertaining and worth a watch - unless you simply don't like making fun of city folks in a country setting.

This feature is unique in that to REALLY appreciate it, the viewer should be equipped with an understanding of rural small town culture AND big city culture. There is indeed a definable difference...and clash. This movie does bring that difference to the viewer. And it is funny. I found myself laughing on numerous occasions. Where I grew up, the local Costco sold "salt licks"(don't know what it is: look it up). Something you would NEVER find anywhere near the "CITY". The "Bargain Barn"; oh my...we're back home. This movie is worth the time to see, but do try to view with your mind accepting unfamiliar cultural territory.

...if you didn't consider yourself lucky! In this film, Hugh Grant is paired with Sarah Jessica Parker in perhaps the worst pairing since Vanilla Ice and Naomi Campbell in Cool As Ice. They play a fashionably separated, New York City power couple, who are forced into witness protection after witnessing a murder. These two city folks are put in the care of an elderly U.S. Marshall and his wife, in the middle of nowhere Montana. Let the fun times begin! Didn't Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley do this a decade earlier in Amish country? At least For Richer or Poorer could get a few cheap laughs here and there, but not the Morgans. The Morgans have no chemistry what-so-ever and their film is painfully slow and predictable. Hugh Grant is usually funny, but in this film, every attempt at humor is snuffed out by Sarah Jessica Parker, who has no idea what she's doing. Parker is just one of these people who was lucky enough to find her perfect role and she was amazing in it, but everything I've seen her in since Sex & The City has been awful! Did You Hear About The Morgans has been done, more than once, and if you watch this movie and can't tell what's going to happen, twenty minutes a head of time, then you haven't seen too many movies. This has got to be one of the biggest waste of money in recent Hollywood history and if you decide to watch it, then you're dumber than the casting director who thought pairing Grant and Parker was a good idea.

"Did You Hear About the Morgans?" is a pleasant comedy from 2009 starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, and Mary Steenburgen.I had only heard dreadful things about this film. I think to have paid to see it in the movies, it would have been disappointing. Seeing it on DVD, it wasn't bad at all.Parker and Grant are a New York City couple who are separated, mainly due to the fact that Mr. Morgan slept with somebody else while married. However, he wants very badly to get back together; she doesn't. She's concentrating on her very successful real estate company, and she's planning to adopt a child.One night, he comes to see her at a Breast Cancer fundraiser, and as they walk out together, they witness a murder and have to go into the Witness Protection Program in Ray, Wyoming, where they stay at the home of the Wheelers (Steenburgen and Elliott).This film is completely predictable in every way possible. I have to say I found Hugh Grant funny, Steenburgen and Elliott wonderful, and Sarah Jessica Parker was fine. Elizabeth Moss of "Mad Men" has a supporting role as Meryl Morgan's assistant; she looks incredibly glamorous.The scene where Meryl calls Paul outside to look at the stars brought back something that happens every time I'm out of a city - it's astounding how many there are in the sky that we don't get to see. And the end of the film, the scene at the airport -- well, that happened to my brother and my sister-in-law, so I have to say I loved that.Cute comedy, not a disaster by any means. Filmed in New Mexico, there was some lovely scenery.