The Object of My Affection (1998)

That was an excellent one.

I'll tell you why so serious

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Unfortunately, spending writing a 1,000 critic about this film is as time wasting as this movie was. This is Sunday morning time I will never get back. The storyline is not credible. The characters are not credible. The relationship between the characters are not credible. And the screenwriter uses the same level of language and expressions for all the characters. This is not deep research and development of characters and storyline. The acting was OK but not outstanding. The end was expectable. The movie all in all was extremely boring. Do yourself a favor and take this one off your list and never look back. You will thank me later.

In order for me to get properly engaged in a movie, I have to relate to most of the major players. As such, I tend to shy away from gay-themed movies, because I just can't relate to the characters and their situations. This movie is different.I found all of the characters to be extremely well-written. There was a lot of depth-of-character in all of the parts, both major and minor ones. This movie stayed away from clichés and took a fresh look at the complexities of love and the expectations that we have about our relationships. Perhaps the best compliment is that I had no idea how this movie was going to end. That's rare in modern romance movies.The acting was exceptional as well. Paul Rudd seems to be taking shallow roles in shallow comedies like "Ron Burgundy" lately, but it's clear from this that he can engage in serious acting. I wasn't terribly impressed with Jennifer Anniston's acting in "Friends", but it's clear from this film - and subsequent work - that she is capable of acting with considerable depth.I was quite surprised at the relatively low rating from the IMDb crowd. It is quite possible that is was marketed wrong. I watched this on HBO and it was billed as a romantic comedy. No way. This is a very dramatic movie, with some deeply sad and heartfelt moments.I recommend this movie very highly if you are interested in character-centered, movies with complex, expressive emotions.

this movie had laughs, tears, and silences and thats what i love in movies. I'm only 14, but i study the word "love," and this movie is made out of it. love is different within the whole movie. they could be a love/hate relationship, a just friends relationship, or a love relationship, where you start loving each other and never stop. this movie just says a lot of how love works in mysterious ways, and how it always has its flaws. whether the man is gay or straight, he means so much to her. and sometimes, its hard to know that. having something you cant have. but really, it has more than a girl wanting something she can't have, its that she tries to get it, and just didn't accept it right away, she tried. thats love.

Just another Rachel character for me and I never did like her. I found there was no depth or sense of reality in the whole set up between Nina and George. The man's gay ~ get over it. Nina's character really irritated me, because this was all about her notions of an ideal relationship. (yep, so you pick a gay man, really!). The whole thing was unrealistic from start to beginning. She finds herself pregnant, and decides the ideal situation would be to raise it with a gay man. I felt she passively aggressively railroad George into 'setting up home' with her. Who was she trying to kid, certainly not me. Do you really have to complete ten lines, to get your views across ~ am I the only one who finds it difficult to say anymore about this film than what I've said already.OK rant over.