30 August 2014

His mistress's voice

The Truth About Cats and Dogs

(1996)
Well, this isn't remotely as good as I remembered it, but it does demonstrate emphatically why Janeane Garafalo went on to become the Carole Lombard of her romcom era.

Seriously, what the fuck happened? She's barely sufficiently not-conventionally-beautiful for the critical Cyrano trope of this highly implausible plot to work, sort of, but with all due respect to Uma, who could be in a room with both their characters and not be drawn irresistibly to the real Abby? Why has Garafalo not had a huge career? She turns 50 next month, so it sure ain't happening for her now. What a Hollywood waste.

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