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Modern Romance

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Modern Romance
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R,1hr 33min
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January 1, 1981
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Synopsis: Opening well past the point favored by most romantic comedies, director/co-writer/star Albert Brooks' take on the genre begins with a breakup. After exchanging harsh words in a diner, Brooks and Kathryn Harrold go their separate ways. Brooks then spends the next few days attempting to forget his troubles through work, exercise, drugs, and other women, torturing himself at each step. While it's hinted early on that this isn't the couple's first breakup, it eventually becomes clear that the they have ... Full Synopsis
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Challenging the notion that film eroticizes whatever's in its frame, Albert Brooks presents a vision of love as a cycle of torture, abnegation, delusion, and denial. Other than a probable heightening of tensions, Brooks and co-writer Monica Johnson offer no suggestion that events transpiring in Modern Romance differ significantly from its protagonists' past breakups and reunions. Seemingly motivated ... Full Review
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Robert Cole
Mary Harvard
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BRUNO KIRBY April 28, 1949 - Aug. 14, 2006 An actor with Hollywood roots, Bruno Kirby pointed his...
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