However, it does not give new meaning to romantic comedies. The title itself is still a mystery to me but the rest of the film is a little bit simplistic. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, justin long, kristen bell director. Serious moonlight is a movie starring meg ryan, timothy hutton, and kristen bell.
I am not a fan of meg ryan but i have to admit that here she gives a real profound performance even daring to show real sadness at the loss of what has been, the. In 2009, ryan starred alongside kristen bell and justin long in the independent comedy film serious moonlight. Rent serious moonlight 2009 starring meg ryan and timothy hutton on dvd and bluray. Following her work on serious moonlight, meg ryan starred in and coproduced the hbo miniseries the best awful, an adaptation of the carrie fisher novel. Meg ryan salutes tom hanks at afi life achievement award duration. Timothy hutton and meg ryan in serious moonlight the. When louise, a highpowered chicago attorney meg ryan, discovers that her husband ian timothy hutton is about to. Serious moonlight starring timothy hutton and meg ryan. A lessthanfrothy domestic showdown starring meg ryan and. When highpowered attorney louise meg ryan learns that her husband, ian timothy hutton, plans to leave her after years of marriage to run off with his twentysomething girlfriend, sara kristen. Serious moonlight won best film at the 2009 orlando film festival. In this story of a marriage on the skids between louise meg ryan, a highpowered manhattan attorney, and her husband of thirteen years, ian timothy hutton, a strange and dark episode unfolds and halts ians plans to run away with his girlfriend sarah kristen bell.
Mar 09, 2010 superstar meg ryan ist endlich zuruck. Dec 01, 2009 timothy hutton is ducttaped to the potty, and meg ryan is just plain potty in this posthumously produced adrienne shelly script directed by firsttimer cheryl hines who starred in shellys. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long star in cheryl hines feature directorial debut serious moonlight, a romcom about a manhattan lawyer, louise ryan. Serious moonlight after she arrives at her country home for a romantic weekend getaway, things dont go exactly as planned for highpowered manhattan lawyer louise meg ryan. Aug 12, 2010 serious moonlight starring timothy hutton, meg ryan, justin long and kristen bell.
Serious moonlight was scripted by the late adrienne shelly. A relationship ending is like a death just two people know about. Ian timothy hutton is cheating on louise his wife of years with the younger sara kristen bell. Ryan takes on the role of louise, a highpowered manhattan lawyer, who is shocked to discover her husbands hutton affair with a much younger woman. Serious moonlight 2009 serious moonlight 2009 user. Meg ryan and timothy hutton here billed as tim play a longmarried couple whose union is on the verge of collapse, although only he knows it. She is attached to direct a movie for tnt based on the william saroyan book, the human comedy. Louise, the highpowered attorney played by meg ryan comes home one day early and finds this note. Louise meg ryan, a highpowered manhattan lawyer, is touched when she arrives for the weekend to her familys upstate getaway to find it strewn with rose petals by her husband of years, ian timothy hutton. Louise meg ryan, a successful lawyer, wants to jumpstart her failing marriage to ian timothy hutton. Oct 16, 2009 meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long star in cheryl hines feature directorial debut serious moonlight, a romcom about a manhattan lawyer, louise ryan, whose husband hutton.
Curb your enthusiasm meg ryan 2009 serious moonlight louise 2009 the women mary haines 2008. Her other television credits include one of the boys 1982 and captain planet and the planeteers 199091. Meg ryan at the premiere of serious moonlight in 2009. At best, it is a mildly amusing movie that a good cast can do. Released december 4th, 2009, serious moonlight stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 24 min, and received a score of 36 out of 100. Nov 24, 2009 serious moonlight stars meg ryan and cheryl hines from a screenplay by waitress scribe adrienne shelly. Serious moonlight has a terrifically pedigreed cast and crew, including stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long, with waitress writer adrienne shelly behind the screenplay and curb your enthusiasm actress cheryl hines the firm directorial hand. When highpowered attorney louise meg ryan learns that her husband, ian timothy hutton, plans to leave her after years of marriage to run off with his twenty something girlfriend, sara kristen bell, she impulsively decides to take drastic action. Serious moonlight 2010 hines cheryl on dvd with meg ryan 9e. Love triangle bound by tape and talk the new york times. A highpowered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet. Hutton, immobilized by duct tape, are held prisoner, serious moonlight has the static.
Serious moonlight from meg ryans best rom com roles e. Meg ryan plays louise a successful lawyer who comes home early to her husband ian timothy hutton to surprise him only to discover that the house is decorated. Though the result is halfbaked, the film does take chances, particularly when it comes to meg ryan, here playing a woman who is intent on killing the man she has ducttaped to a chair. Okay, it sounds ridiculous, but the premise has potential until a wildeyed ryan takes serious moonlight from a passionate romance to pure horror. Louise ryan and ian make up our 40ish crisis couple louise just doesnt know about the. Als louise meg ryan, eine erfolgreiche anwaltin aus manhattan, fur einen romantischen uberraschungskurzurlaub in. Actress hines was honored that her first foray into directing was at. Serious moonlight marks the feature directorial debut of actor cheryl hines, who costarred in shellys last directorial effort, waitress. Serious moonlight 2010 hines cheryl on dvd with meg ryan. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, derek carter, bill parks, kimberlee peterson. Directed by cheryl hines, serious moonlight is a 2009 black comedy film. Shellys husband, andy ostrow, who produced the film and has a small role in it, decided to go forward with the project, for which shelly had been seeking a producer, after the actordirectors tragic death.
Monica film center santa monica monica film center santa monica. Meg ryan is an american actress, director, and producer who gained recognition on the longrunning cbs soap opera as the world turns 198284. Meg ryan gets together with her french kiss boyfriend, timothy hutton. Serious moonlight jumbles a comic tone with tragic circumstances and the result is confused performances from its stars. Watch serious moonlight 2019 online free trial the. Serious moonlight has a couple of little flaws but really i didnt have much of a problem with it.
Apr 30, 2009 short interview tribeca film festival. Serious moonlight 2009 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Several key crew members for serious moonlight including composer andrew hollander, casting directors sunday boling and meg morman, costume designer ariyela waldcohain, and line producer brigitte. Meg ryan lying unconscious on the ground of a bathroom in a black dress as a guy with a bandana over his face plays with her breasts and feels up her while squeezing them all as another guy sits tied to a toilet and gets angry with him. The story is one of louise meg ryan and ian timothy hutton, an unhappily married couple who have sort of an odd serious moonlight is not what i expected at all, in both. One year after starring as a spurned wife in the disappointing remake of the women, shes the lead in serious. Blondhaired, blueeyed with an effervescent personality, meg ryan was born margaret mary emily hyra in fairfield, connecticut, to susan duggan, an english teacher and onetime actress, and harry hyra, a math teacher. She tapes him to a toilet this time, instead of letting him go to paris. Playing a highpowered yuppie lawyer whose callow husband ian timothy hutton plans to leave.
Newhall under construction newhall under construction. In fact, hes actually in the process of writing louise a letter explaining his. Serious moonlight concerns the marital difficulties of timothy hutton and meg ryan. He has fallen in love with a younger woman kristin bell and is planning to leave ryan for her. Though the ending is predictable, the film still works, even for a romantic comedy. In a desperate effort to save their marriage, ryan binds hutton to a chair with. Though the result is halfbaked, the film does take chances, particularly when it comes to meg ryan, here playing a woman who is intent on killing the man she has ducttaped to a chair her husband. She is of ruthenian, polish, irish, and german ancestry hyra is a ruthenian surname, and ryan is her maternal grandmothers. Actress hines was honored that her first foray into directing was at the head of bringing. Directed by cheryl hines waitress, curb your enthusiasm from a screenplay by adrienne shelly waitress, the film stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell and justin long. Small indie that has all the ingredients of a typical hollywood meg ryan romantic comedy from the 1990s, including meg ryan, but lacks the spark of the best of her genre. It opens with the main character, the husband ian, played by timothy hutton, who is just about to write his wife a note saying that hes leaving her.
He has planned to spend some romantic time at his and louises summer house with sara before they go to paris together. Apr 28, 2009 a lessthanfrothy domestic showdown starring meg ryan and. She decides to surprise him at their country cottage, but quickly discovers shes the one. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, derek carter, bill parks, kimberlee peterson, nathan dean. Serious moonlight is a film directed by cheryl hines with meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, year. Meg ryan photos actress meg ryan attends the after party for serious moonlight during the 2009 tribeca film festival at tenjune on april 25, 2009 in new york city. First, her husband of years, ian timothy hutton, tells her that hes leaving her for a younger woman kristen bell. Photos courtesy of magnolia picturesmeg ryan and timothy hutton are shown in a scene from serious moonlight. Meg ryan meg ryan photos serious moonlight after party. The last person i want to blame for serious moonlight.
Not merely a war of the sexes, serious moonlight is a story of a war of the wills as ian tries to talk his way out of the situation. Unfortunately ian is not expecting louise, rather his much younger girlfriend kristen bell. No screen performance since holly hunters oscarwinning portrayal of the mute woman in the piano has seemed harder to pull off than meg ryan s louise in serious moonlight, the woefully farfetched comedy penned by late indie darling adrienne shelly and directed by curb your enthusiasms cheryl hines. Serious moonlight takes apart a single day in a year marriage that is in serious trouble.
Since much of it is set in a bathroom in which the lead characters louise ms. Timothy hutton is ducttaped to the potty, and meg ryan is just plain potty in this posthumously produced adrienne shelly script directed by first. Serious moonlight 2009 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Serious moonlight by cheryl hines cheryl hines, meg ryan. Directed by curb your enthusiasms cheryl hines from a script by the late adrienne shelly, the bitter comedy serious moonlight is meant to be both funny and painful, but manages only the latter. To be brutally honest, i think winning had more to do with leads meg ryan and timothy hutton.
Serious moonlight stars meg ryan and cheryl hines from a screenplay by waitress scribe adrienne shelly. With meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long. Oct 16, 2009 meg ryan has officially entered the first wives club chapter of her career. When louise, a highpowered chicago attorney meg ryan, discovers that her husband ian timothy hutton is about to leave her for another. Serious moonlight 2009 stream and watch online moviefone.
Rent serious moonlight 2009 on dvd and bluray netflix. In 1986, she played carole bradshaw in the topgrossing film top gun, and the. The quality of the people involved helps elevate it to be the dark ok, black. Although she has also proven herself as a dramatic actress, meg ryan used her blonde hair, blue eyes, and effervescent personality to greatest effect in romantic comedies of the 1980s and 90s. Serious moonlight is a 2009 american black comedy film directed by cheryl hines and starring meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long. Meg ryan learns her husband timothy hutton is leaving her for another woman and takes him captive, refusing to free him until he admits he still loves her. Now playing in new york at the village east and on cable on demand.
It was released by magnolia pictures on 4 december 2009. Meg ryan and timothy hutton star yet again in a romantic comedy, not called french kiss but serious moonlight. Serious moonlight is not what i expected at all, in both a good and a bad way. As louise, a typea careerist who responds to the sheepish adultery confession of flakey husband ian timothy hutton by knocking him out cold and ducttaping him to a chair for some adhoc marital. H opefully serious moonlight will not become meg ryan s trog. Cheryl hines talks directing meg ryan in serious moonlight.
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