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Music and Lyrics (2007)
Clever version of 'Sense and Sensibility'
This enjoyable film is a modern-day version of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'. Drew Barrymore plays the Elinor part, and also really the Marianne part , too. So in her past relationship she was fooled and abandoned (too much sensibility, like Marianne in S&S), now she avoids her gift of poetry and is reluctant to use her newly discovered (by Alex Fletcher) gift for lyrics (too much sense, Elinor). In fact, when Sophie explains the relationship between the melody (sensibility) and lyrics (sense) to Alex, that is the key to the whole film. This great modern adaptation is supported by very clever comedy in the '80s style pop and in Haley Bennet's fine comedic version of Cora, and by well-written songs.
Men in Trees (2006)
Like the show, only seen the first episode yet
The first episode was good, but (of course) reminded me of Northern Exposure. I've never been to Alaska, but I imagine its not too different from north Finland or Sweden or Switzerland, where I have lived, and therefore seriously cold. That's not very realistically shown in the program.
Anne Heche fits the part very well, Sarah Strange (who I've only seen before in ReGenesis) is excellent as an actor (and very good looking), and the rest of the cast are really good. I was doubtful about how appealing the series would be, mainly because I could never get interested in 'sex & the city', the big thing Jenny Bicks wrote before (well, sometimes when Kim C was particularly outrageous), but the writing was OK. I don't think I'm likely to get all of the series DVDs like for Northern Exposure, maybe not any, but I will watch more of the series with interest.