This is one of my favorite movies. I own the DVD (at least I think I do. It might have been on VHS and I’ve gotten rid of it. Damn. I’ll have to check) but when I saw it on cable last night, I had to watch.
I love Janene Garafolo. Uma Thurman was better in this movie than in any other I’ve seen her in - more a real person. So here’s the gist: Janene is a vet with a radio program and Uma is a model. They are neighbors. J’s character, Abby, sort of rescues Uma’s character, Noelle, from a bad boyfriend. The boyfriend breaks Abby’s violin bow. Noelle shows up at the radio station to bring a new one and rescues Abby herself. She Abby has issues with the fact that while she is smart, funny and successful, she doesn’t think she’s beautiful and so men don’t like her. Personally, I think men don’t like her because she doesn’t like her, but I think that’s the point of the movie.
In any event, sometime between the breaking of the violin bow and the replacing of it, a man calls in to Abby’s show with an errant, big ass dog. Hank. The man, Brian (played by Ben Chaplin since I’ve told you who everyone else is) is a photographer and the dog was a “prop.” Abby tells Brian how to manage a situation he’s having with Hank, and subsequently Brian decides to keep Hank. Or Hank decides to keep Brian, I’m not sure which. Brian wants to thank Abby so he invites her for a drink and she stands him up. He shows up at the station just as Noel is there to thank Abby herself and Abby convinces Noelle to impersonate her.
The hilarity ensues. Noelle and Abby both have a relationship with Brian: Abby over the phone and Noelle in person. Brian falls in love with Abby thinking that Noelle is Abby, but it’s her personality that he loves. I won’t give away the ending but all is well. The actual ending is kind of cute.
I love what appears to be a fairly genuine friendship between Abby and Noel. Well, besides the sharing a man bit.
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