Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Tagline: Is it love... or are they just imagining things?
Plot: "Adam Shipley had given up on love. Art was to be his mistress. And so it was that in the summer of 1924, he took a sabbatical from Andover to write, if not the Great American Novel, certainly something that would make the world sit up and take notice." Alex Sheldon (LUKE WILSON) is an author whose writer's block is the least of his problems - he also happens to be flat broke and owes Cuban loan sharks $100,000. After hanging him out the window and destroying his laptop computer, the thugs give Alex an ultimatum: pay up in 30 days or wind up dead. The only way Alex is going to get that kind of money is by finishing his novel, which is currently less than one sentence long. He's got some idea of what he wants the story to be; as he puts it, "It's about the powerlessness of being in love, how it devours the insides of a person like a deadly virus. It's a comedy." He just can't seem to get it out onto paper. Now lacking both inspiration and a laptop, Alex secures the services of opinionated stenographer Emma Dinsmore (KATE HUDSON) to help him complete the novel and get paid by his publisher in time to save his skin. The story of Adam Shipley (also portrayed by LUKE WILSON) soon begins to emerge. The fictional Adam is a romantic young writer who has been hired to
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 What they’ve produced is dull, slow, and for its genre, not too romantic and not too funny C--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
Couples looking for a date movie this weekend should skip Alex & Emma, a really good example of a really bad romantic comedy.  --Daniel Davis (MovieWeb)
Romantic comedy is not supposed to inspire apathy, but Alex and Emma does just that. 63/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
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| Directed by |
Rob Reiner
The Princess Bride, Stand by Me, A Few Good Men |
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| Written by |
Jeremy Leven
The Legend of Bagger Vance, Creator, Crazy as Hell |
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| Cast |
Luke Wilson
The Royal Tenenbaums, Charlie's Angels, Rushmore |
 | Rob Reiner
This Is Spinal Tap, Sleepless in Seattle, Misery |
| Kate Hudson
Almost Famous, The Skeleton Key, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
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 | Sophie Marceau
Braveheart, The World Is Not Enough, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
 | Cloris Leachman
Young Frankenstein, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Iron Giant |
 | Chino XL
Crime Partners 2000, The Circuit 2: The Final Punch, Gang Warz | |
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| Music By |
Marc Shaiman
Team America: World Police, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally... |
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