Meg Ryan has officially entered The First Wives Club chapter of her career. One year after starring as a spurned wife in the disappointing remake of The Women, she’s the lead in Serious Moonlight, opposite Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell, and Justin Long. Hutton plays her cheating husband, and when she discovers his affair with Bell, she ties him to the toilet until he falls back in love with her.
The film, due in December, is equally notable for its writer and director. The late Adrienne Shelly (Waitress) penned the script, and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Cheryl Hines receives her first directing credit.
Did the trailer give you hope or merely make you nostalgic for Ryan’s cuddlier work? Compare and contrast Ryan and Sandra Bullock’s recent career moves and try to explain why one has thrived and one hasn’t. Go.
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looks good
have not lilked her since the 90’s…her cuteness no longer cuts it…we’ve seen the same faces, gestures etc in each character.
She needs to be lost forever instead of taken to bed.
Looks like what would have happened in the first half of ‘French Kiss’ both starring Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton… did the writer of ‘Waitress’ write this on meth?
I thought the same thing- Timothy Hutton leaves Meg Ryan for younger hotter chick and she tries to get him back? They could have at least cast someone different in the husband role to fend off comparisons!
I loved French Kiss. See this movie should have had Kevin Kline and his fake bad accent.
Saw this movie at Tribeca Film Fest. Wanted to like it (esp for Kristen Bell), but couldn’t.
And how does this movie make women of a certain age look good??? My love for both Justin Long and Kristen Bell will not be enough for me to rent this at Blockbuster. Hey, Hollywood! here’s a tip, stop making movies were married men in their 40s cheat on their wives with women in their 20s. Stop making movies were women in their 40s are disrespected by men, go crazy and seem to lose all value in society. Stop it!
yea, but isn’t that like real life?
I don’t think the entertainment industry should be reinforcing negative stereotypes, that have been played to death already in movies. Women have enough issues to deal with then to have movies like this geared towards them, this is spirit breaking nonsense. Give me Steel Magnolias or Fried Green Tomatoes over this piece of crap. I’m now off my soap box.
“disrespect” is a noun not a verb.
Ahaha. It’s a verb, too.
Wait, wait, I can’t figure out, between your choices of Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock, which one has “thrived” in your eyes. Surely not Sandra, since that movie where she stalked Bradley Cooper was the worst movie ever made, and The Proposal was cringeworthy, stereotypical career-woman-doesn’t-have-feelings schlock. Poor woman looked like someone had refused to feed her for a month before they started filming.
I know, I’m confused by the question too. Both of them have been making stinker movies and scrambling to hold on to their careers for years now.
Why is Sandra Bullock experiencing success and Meg Ryan not?
3 simple words: bad plastic surgery.
Scratch that. 5 words: too much bad plastic surgery.
Meg Ryan is just not easy to look at these days.
I agree. She should have just aged gracefully. I can’t stand when women get that shot in their cheeks that makes it impossible to fully smile. They look like the Joker. Mary Murphy on SYTYCD is another example. Who do they think they’re fooling?
Brooke…The Proposal made $160 million and is #5 on the all-time grossing romantic comedies. That’s thriving.
And it looks like Bullock has another hit this fall with “The Blind Side”.
You can’t possibly think Meg Ryan’s career is going quite as well.
ah so THAT explains what Meg Ryan was doin on Curb your Enthusiasm… well, to answer your question about Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock, I find them both pretty damn annoying but I prefer Meg Ryan for her overall body of work considering Bullocks- When Harry Met Sally was the last great romantic comedy- but I think the reason for Bullocks success is 1) Meg Ryan’s face is botched. 2) Meg Ryan got tired of doin rom-com’s l and decided to stretch her acting chops in movies that people did not like. In The Flesh was the nail in the coffin… still, I could only respect her for wanting to get out of the rut that is the rom-com… Bullock on the other hand continues to churn out the same dreck over AND over AND OVER and people eat up… her only “stretch” was Crash and that movie did good out of pure luck.
Yeah, but any success by the Proposal was destroyed by the bomb that was All About Steve
Sandra Bullock is among the triumvirate of bad actresses along with Liv Tyler and Julia Roberts.
This looks horrible….how did this movie get made?
Meg Ryan is beginning to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, aka Cat Lady.
This is a small indie-flick made in less than three weeks on a budget smaller than one million dollar. It was written by the murdered Adrienne Shelly. It’s a DARK comedy, NOT a romcom. Kudos to Cheryl Hines, Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton and Shelly’s husband Andrew Ostroy for making this movie.
Why don’t you tell your readers the whole story, instead of your own opinion? And show some respect for the late Adrienne Shelly & her work!
Exactly!! Thank you, Bella. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
This may be a profitable film, if only because it looks okay and had a tiny budget, but if we are going to compare Ryan and Bullock, I will say I find Ryan to be a superior actress (“When a Man Loves a Woman” is so impressive from an acting standpoint, and as god as Bullock is in rom coms, Ryan is unbeatable in Nora Ephron material). Bullock picked easier sells when it came to scripts though (Ryan should have pushed for slightly edgier material slowly, like doing something like say, “Cold Mountain” instead of “In the Cut’), and has had less silly controversy surrounding her over the last few years. And yes, the plastic surgery Ryan had may have settled down a bit, but it was too much and pointless.
I LOVED the trailer and I think it looks great! Why so anti Meg? Meg Ryan is a fantastic actress and I love her movies. Same with Sandra Bullock (although The Proposal was a bit cheesey). Still, the laides rock and they both look gorgeous. Can’t wait to see this movie.
Okay, so it looks to be another clicheish movie. But it’s Meg Ryan and she does good comedy. This has its dark side but it still is outlandish, unreal comedy-kind of slapstick in style- I mean, tying to a toilet!?! Ryan and Bullock do comedy well. They do some serious well, too, but they will always be the queens of more modern comedy to me. I just enjoy watching them act. They take the world and give it a spin. It’s nice to be in fantasy land every now and then.
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The difference between Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock is plastic surgery. Enough said.
awww i’m so happy her face looks normal again…but this is a netflix movie for sure.