Laws of Attraction (2004)

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Two rival divorce attorneys (Piercw Brosnan and Julianne Moore) start off their love/hate professional relationship on a Tracy/Hepburn like "Woman of the Year" style comedy. Unlike that classic battle of the sexes, this works best before they take their relationship past professional. She's smug and conniving in her attempts to win cases, but he's far more clever and sly. It goes from Manhattan divorce courts to an Irish wedding (in Ireland) and by the time a shocking plot development occurs, it's lost a good deal of its sense of fun, and seems to be closer to "Taming of the Shrew" than "State of the Marital Union".At times, this is extremely clever and filled with surprises but suddenly becomes a traditional romantic comedy where the spark dilutes as the romance progresses. Brosnan is better at romantic comedy than Moore is, although she at times looses the uncomfortable feeling she seems to gain in certain amusing circumstances. Frances Fisher is delightfully sardonic as Moore's youth craving mother, and Nora Dunn gets laughs simply for a single tart word followed by her gavel whack as the divorce court judge. I had high hopes for this after a great start, but for the most part, it seems to fizzle after its half way mark, especially when Moore and Brosnan end up going toe to toe after an "Adam's Rib" like involvement in a divorce case concerning a rather untalented rock star.

Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan play rival lawyers in a divorce case who fly to Ireland to gather evidence against each others' clients. After a wild night at an Irish festival, they wake up married and with a distinct conflict of interest in this film entitled,Laws Of Attraction.This was based on a story by Aline Brosh McKenna and it was directed by Peter Howitt.The movie was simply a standard opposites-attract romantic comedy.Too bad that aside from being formulaic and clichéd,it was painfully predictable, full of implausibilities, and crowded with supporting characters that are underdeveloped and overplayed.The only thing good about it is that Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan create just enough chemistry to carry the movie.It adds nothing to its type of movie genre and it rather forgettable.

Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are New Yorks finest divorce attorneys, but when celebrity Couple (Parker Posey and Michael Sheen) raise the stakes in their divorce, Audrey and Daniel set out to make their cases and end up getting hitched themselves. For the sake of their reputations they must pretend that they are really in love.Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan have a very good on-screen chemistry, and they are helped by some nice direction and a good script; there's plenty of laughs in this romantic comedy, but it's not a real tearjerker like some others in the genre.7/10 A fine effort

Parker Posey actually steals some major money scenes as the designer wife of a philandering rock star in this quick witted comedy that pits two of Newyork's high profile divorce lawyers (Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore) at each other wits. Audrey Woods (Moore) is an overworked, over zealous, over praised and over achieving career woman at the top of her game. That is until she meets her match in Daniel Rafferty (Brosnan) an equally established but slight eccentric professional much like herself, when he is hired by her clients soon-to-be ex husband. From the minute the two lawyers meet, sparks fly and neither one of them seems to be able to hold down their side of the case at hand as they juggle inevitable falling in love, and a drunken shotgun marriage that takes place during their visit to their clients estate in Ireland. The most enjoyable scenes for me were those in which a not so far fetched Parker Posey plays Serena to a pulp. The ever interesting Frances Fisher also does her share of co-starring as Sara Miller, Audrey's Page six seeking mother. It's all very funny, charming and quite entertaining. The wardrobe people deserve an applause as well for making Moore and Bronsnan look even better than ever and the directing was on par as well.