"Director: Dale Launer"

• Love Potion No. 9 | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (-317.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The premise of Love Potion No. 9--that a magic potion makes the user irresistible to the opposite sex--could be the setup for the crassest sex farce imaginable. Instead, this film is a surprisingly subtle romantic comedy. Nebbishy scientist Paul (Tate Donovan) goes to a Gypsy fortune teller (Anne Bancroft), who tells him she sees no women in his entire life. To make up for this depressing news, she gives him a few drops of a love potion--number 8. Paul, a biochemist, scoffs; but when his pet cat accidentally gets a taste and attracts every female cat in the neighborhood, he enlists fellow dweeby scientist Diane (Sandra Bullock) to analyse it. After experimenting on monkeys, they decide to test it on themselves; soon Diane is being pursued by handsome Italians in the street and comes close to marrying the Prince of England (sic), while Paul gets a little revenge on a woman who previously rejected him, then embarks on his own love spree. Shortly they discover that they really want each other; but before they can get married, an old boyfriend of Diane returns with his own dose of love potion number 8. Paul's only hope is to get something even more powerful. Love Potion No. 9 is genuinely clever and sweet, and both Donovan and Bullock work well with the low-key but effective humour of the movie's well-written script. It's a tribute to her talent and her girl-next-door looks that Bullock, unlike most pretty stars dressing down, is effective as both a lovelorn loser and the confident glamour-girl she becomes. Altogether, a charming and enjoyable film.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Love Potion #9 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Biochemist Paul (Tate Donovan) has no luck at all with women and is persuaded by his friends to visit a fortuneteller who gives him a love potion # 8 to make him irresistible to women. Being a scientist Paul believes none of this until his cat accidentally gets a taste and attracts every female cat in the neighborhood. He enlists fellow scientist Diane (Sandra Bullock) to help him analyze it and after experimenting on monkeys they decide to test it on themselves and both embark on a quest to find romance. In the end they discover that they really want each other; but before they can get married an old boyfriend of Diane's returns with his own dose of love potion number 8. Paul's only hope is to get something even more powerful Love Potion #9.