Aniston's 'Picture Perfect' focuses on love
JAKARTA (JP): Valentine's is now past, but Cupid's arrow may still be in your future.
Still reason for caution, however, as grand celebrations with a new or old love interest may no longer be advisable in this economic crunch.
Magical movie moments, packing value for money, may be the best bet this weekend.
The latest offering at local movie theaters, Picture Perfect, is celluloid proof that love is most definitely in the air.
Building on her popularity from the sitcom Friends, Jennifer Aniston tries her hand at the big screen once again after her movie debut, She's The One, failed to grab the attention of both moviegoers and critics.
Unlike that first flop, Aniston is the lead in Picture Perfect, playing talented advertising director Kate Mosely, who is unable to land a promotion.
It is a glass ceiling with a difference; her boss is reluctant to promote her because of the fear that, without marital ties, she could abandon ship at short notice.
Frustrated Kate ends up in a series of dates in order to get her promotion and satisfy her mother, who desperately wants to see her daughter get married.
The only coworker she is interested in, Sam (Kevin Bacon), is only attracted to women who are unavailable.
Kate eventually goes along with her girlfriend's plan to invent a fictional fiance.
She has to hunt one down (Jay Mohr) and hire him to pose as her beloved. Together, they begin a crash course in each other's lives and fabricate a past history of their "relationship".
That many splendored thing called love is also celebrated in Titanic and Touch Me, both still playing in the city's theaters.
Pairing teen idol Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, Titanic is an epic fictional love story set against the very real background of the tragic sinking of the huge liner.
It has left audiences all over the world swooning and mopping up an ocean's worth of tears. And its producers are crying tears of joy all the way to the bank -- it has brought in revenues of more than US$700 million worldwide, far exceeding its massive $200 million production costs.
Touch Me, starring Amanda Peet and Michael Vartan, is another soft option in its pursuit of the meaning of true love, with the weighty subject of AIDS also thrown in for good measure.
Immune to the love potion? Most Wanted and Tomorrow Never Dies will feed any avid addiction to action.
In Most Wanted, Sgt. James Dunn, (Keenen Ivory Wayans), a Gulf War hero and highly trained sharpshooter, has to buy back his freedom by assassinating an industrialist. If not, he will spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted for killing a superior officer.
Caught in a deadly conspiracy, Dunn has to fight not only for his life but also to prove his innocence.
And for James Bond fans, there is no need to fight for tickets as Tomorrow Never Dies is now on the daily screening schedule instead of midnight shows only. This time Pierce Brosnan teams with Hong Kong's Michele Yeoh in fighting the baddies. (ste)