The Real Blonde (1998)

Admirable film.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Though this movie is not perfect, I thought it was a lot better than what many people felt, looking at the comments and the box office. The acting, for the most part, is excellent. Modine does a great job of seeming clueless and clumsy in his approach to his acting career, but I rooted for him because his character REALLY wanted it, he just hadn't figured on how to get it. Keener was at her sparkling, sassy best.I think it's main problem is not so much the meandering, or the foibles of the characters: it's that the entire setting is so particular to New York I'm unsure about how much of the humor translates. This is not a patronizing jab at theuniverse beyond the five boroughs; my experiences made me howl at thingsthat others may find completely stupid. Anyone who's ever been an actor or in the fashion industry in NYC would find so many scenes uproariously funny. The catering scenes, especially, would be dear to the heart of any working actorwho's struggled in New York.This, by the way, was not an independent movie, it was a Paramount release.DeCillo, after the dismal box office, is back on the indie side of the fence. Good luck to him, I hope he continues to make movies.

"The Real Blonde" is an easy going romantic comedy with the emphasis on comedy which sticks Modine and Keener in the midst of an ample cast of familiar faces as it spins its lukewarm but likeable story of sitcom type couple vicissitudes. Somewhat ill focused and lacking in coherence but always upbeat and busy, "TRB" makes a good couch potato flick for those in the mood for romantic comedy. (B-)

The director did a good job on simple plot like Living in Oblivion. The Real Blond may be too complex for him too handle. The elements of the movie do not work together very well (at least as expected), resulting in the weakness of coherence between two main couples, and other small episodes.

I hired the real blonde because i wanted to check out one of my good actors Elizabeth Berkley. she basically had a fairly small role in the film,and displayed a dull emotion throughout the whole film,the real blonde was not funny at all,it was a joke really,only a few scenes which actually were funny worked out,it has a great cast though,but all the cast didn't seem so open or alive,especially Kathleen Turner.Altogether the film wasn't too watchy....5.3 out of 10 C-