Laws of Attraction

Get ready to fall in love with the year's wittiest romantic comedy! Can two high-powered divorce attorneys make it as man and wife? Find out with the romance that proves that love always gets the last word.

Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan turn on the movie-star twinkle in ILaws of Attraction/I. They're both divorce lawyers whose in-court conflicts give rise to sparks of an entirely different nature--and while they're in Ireland, trying to determine whether the husband or wife in a rock-star divorce deserves to keep a swank castle, they "accidentally" get married. Back in New York, they agree to keep up the pretence of marriage, lest a quickie divorce make them the laughingstocks of the legal community. Few comedies are as outright clumsy as ILaws of Attraction/I; the plot falls apart even as you're watching it, the dialogue stumbles, the direction is graceless. Somehow Moore (IFar From Heaven/I, IThe Hours/I) and Brosnan (ITomorrow Never Dies/I) sustain their charm--but if you're looking for a comedy about divorce, IIntolerable Cruelty/I or the classic IAdam's Rib/I provide a lot more fun. I--Bret Fetzer/I