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The strength of Ted Shen's two-character musical, directed by Jonathan Butterell, comes largely from the fact that the actors are married to each other in real life, which adds depth and intimacy to an otherwise lightweight and predictable love story.
What began as one of the tightest and least predictable Oscar races in years ended up as a fairly predictable love fest for "American Beauty," a comedy about suburban dysfunction that quietly grew in the weeks since the nominations were announced to become the obvious favorite.
The focus of the story remains what it is in E. M. Forster's 1908 work: the fairly predictable love life of young Lucy Honeychurch Elaine Cassidyy), who must choose between the cold fish to whom she is engaged and the somewhat more roguish fellow she met on a trip to Italy.
Irrational, yes, but that predictable love ensured that consumers repeatedly flocked to IKEA stores.
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Other reviews were more mixed: Gene Siskel gave the film a "marginal Thumbs Up" as he liked Jennifer Grey's acting and development of her character, while Roger Ebert gave it "Thumbs Down" due to its "idiot plot", calling it a "tired and relentlessly predictable story of love between kids from different backgrounds".
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