She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from Frasier) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns. Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with... Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney). Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard. On the DVD: She's the One is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute "making-of" featurette and a music video of the title song "Walls" from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --Philip Kemp [show more]
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New York cabbie Mickey (Edward Burns) and his stockbroker brother Francis (Mike McGlone) find themselves in a confusing love triangle after following the advice of their father (John Mahoney) to do whatever makes them happy. Just as Mickey weds his girlfriend Hope (Maxine Bahns), Francis announces his divorce from Renee (Jennifer Aniston) and intention to marry Heather (Cameron Diaz), Mickey's ex-fiancée. The resulting sibling rivalry leads to various comic situations.
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In this hilarious hit comedy that proves breaking up can be really hard to do Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thinks he’s found the perfect girlfriend in Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman)—she’s smart sexyand a superhero But when Matt wants to call it quits Jenny unleashes her powers to exact sweet revenge Actors Jennifer Aniston Maxine Bahns Edward Burns Cameron Diaz John Mahoney & Mike McGloneDirector Edward BurnsCertificate 15 years and overYear 1996Languages EnglishDuration 1 hour and 36 minutes (approx)
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