Life Without Dick (2002)
By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually killed anyone, and wants to be a singer. He falls for Colleen. she likes him, too. He can solve her problem (Dick's body), she can solve his (meeting the mobster's demands that he kill people like Dick). Danny has an ex-girlfriend, who might still hold the key to his heart, two cops are sniffing around for Dick, a junk yard owner gets a conscience, and a talent show is coming up. Bullets, music, and true love are set to collide.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
Good movie but grossly overrated
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
I couldn´t believe it. I have followed Sarah´s career since "Girls just want to have fun (1985)" and she has worked in many forgettables films but this one is the worst. If you wonna waste your time just sit on the coatch and watch tv while it´s unplugged and contemplate for an hour and a half the dark screen, it´s worth it!
A pleasant enough film with a few laughs and an attractive cast. Parker a very good comediane has done much better but this film hasn't very high expectations so it hard to be critical. She plays the live in girl friend of pretentious, buffoonish private detective who is cheating on her and planning to run off. When he makes the announcement she accidently shoots him which works out just fine for Connick, an uninspired hit man who was hired to kill the boyfriend. And so on.
This movie was a disaster from the start. I'm sorry but this was a waste of everyone who was involved time. Who was the poor sap who had to pay for it. The story was just soo soo pitiful, it didn't go anywhere. It seemed like it could have been a 15 min sketch on SNL but instead it was stretched out to an hour and a half. Its depressing when a blue painting gets more laughs than any of the actors, not that any of the acting was good. It seemed at times like they were searching for the right words to say (almost improve like). The whole show seemed very amateurish. My apologies to the actors, but this was trash.
Writer/director Bix Skahill is a funny man. Life Without Dick is a wild love-story, murder mystery that has layers of interesting characters and plot twists. The casting is incredible. Sarah Jessica Parker is sexy and funny. Harry Connick, Jr. has the 'triple threat'. Ever since I saw him in Jodie foster's Little Man Tate, I've considered him one of Hollywood's untapped talents. He's handsome, funny and he can sing (which is cleverly woven into the plot with the most hilarious results).Even the guy who plays Harley, the man at the garbage dump had me rolling on the floor. This is a party film in the tradition of Animal House, Monty Python's Flying Circus and those old Bob Hope road pictures. See