A Little Bit of Heaven
Tagline: Hold on to love.
Meet Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson). She’s young, beautiful, and funny, but afraid to open herself up to true love and commitment. Where have we seen this before?
Sounds like she needs to meet Mr. Right. If we were to say doctor, the only correct response could be, “Sure! How about a guy named Julian Goldstein, so we can make some hilarious Jewish-Mexican doctor jokes? And ideally, he should be played by Gael Garcia Bernal, so that he can be equally easy on the eye, yet super sensitive.” If that thought was on the tip of your tongue, A Little Bit of Heaven is for you.
Sadly, you might be the only person who’s planning to see it. The words on the tips of critics’ tongues are less than charitable. “A Little Bit of Heaven is not a film that I would ever commend to the ill, the well or to anyone in that grey area between,” slams the Observer. “A Little Bit Of Heaven makes you ask some really big questions. The biggest is why anyone involved in this film thought any of it was a good idea,” remarks Film4 (note to the studio: the Brits really disliked your movie). The only review that offered a lukewarm response (and we had to look longer than we’d expected) was Screen International, with “There are certainly moments to enjoy here, and there is no denying Kate Hudson’s charm and enthusiasm, but just quite how the film best sells itself to audiences is still not really clear.” The answer may present itself at the end of the weekend: by going straight to DVD.
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