TRCC Reviews
Once part of a popular 80’s boy band named Pop!, Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is now a “washed up” musician struggling to get gigs years after the massive failure of his solo album. He embraces his “has been” status, aware that while he never achieved the level of success as his fellow bandmate and former friend Colin (Scott Porter), he can still cash in on his former glory by booking jobs at local fairs and high school reunions. Alex’s luck changes when reigning pop queen Cora Corman (Haley Bennett) reveals herself to be a fan of Pop! and asks Alex…
Bridget Jones’s Baby: Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father.
Love Happens Synopsis: A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn’t yet truly confronted his wife’s passing. Love Happens is about therapist Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart), who has lost his wife and writes a best-selling self-help book on how to overcome grief and ends up on the tour circuit. Reluctantly he agrees to host a grief seminar in Seattle, where his wife was from and where his estranged in-laws still live, and while he’s there, he meets…
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Synopsis: After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she’s dreamed of having.
Before Sunrise: A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together.
No Postage Necessary Synopsis: Straight out of jail, a hacker steals letters hoping to find cash. He reads one of the letters, falls in love with the writer and decides to change his ways to be worthy of her. No Postage Necessary revolves around a hacker named Sam (George Blagden), who is released from prison with several years of probation. As part of his release, he is not allowed to use the internet in any capacity and is given a job at the local Twisty Treat ice cream stand. To “earn” some extra cash, Sam poses as a mailman and…
Bridget Jones’s Diary: A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
It’s Complicated Synopsis: When attending their son’s college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship. But the complicated fact is they’re divorced and he’s remarried. Jane (Meryl Streep) is a woman at a crossroads. A divorced mother of three, her oldest daughter is engaged, her only son is about to graduate college, and her youngest is finally moving out. Her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin) has remarried a younger, beautiful woman named Agnes (Lake Bell) with whom he has a five-year-old son, so Jane is left to deal with the empty nest syndrome alone. A successful baker, Jane is…
Ruby Sparks Synopsis: A novelist struggling with writer’s block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved immense success with his first book but is now struggling with his next project. He likes to write old-school with a typewriter but usually sits in front of a blank page for hours until he is distracted by his dog, Scotty, his agent, or his brother, Harry (Chris Messina). Clearly, Calvin is trying to work through the issues plaguing…