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The Butcher's Wife
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
Release : | 1991 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | Paramount, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Stunt Coordinator, |
Cast : | Demi Moore Jeff Daniels George Dzundza Mary Steenburgen Frances McDormand |
Genre : | Fantasy Comedy Romance |
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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
a comedy like many others. not brilliant but decent for the good intentions. a cast like colors on paper with the hope to seems be an art work. Demi Moor does a good job. not remarkable, far to be special but enough for translate the desire to explore large parts of role. the result is not a success but could be reflection of too high ambition of director. because the magic is victim of a pink chaos. because the actors are only shadows for a show who has many interesting opportunities. a comedy like many others. not so bad. only mediocre. its fundamental sin - the sacrifice of magic for a not convincing drawing.
"The Butcher's Wife" has an original story about a girl who can see things that will happen in short future. She marries the butcher in the get go and they develop awkward relationships with people from the neighborhood. Then, the film develops very slowly and things happen too implausibly. People change pairs, shrink ends up seeing the psychiatrist and some other weird stuff. This is a light fantasy comedy made for chicks that won't be enjoyed by many like it wasn't by me. I don't feel able to rate it from 0 to 10 since I'm not the target public for this film. Maybe if you're in a good day and every romantic thing makes you happy you may like it-- or maybe not.
I just love, love, love this film. The cast is perfect, right down to all the bit-parts. At first I was bothered by DM's accent (& her blonde hair is a shame) but the sweet script transcends all that. All the characters are pitch perfect, the lines so funny & the message inspiring! The locations are also great, I don't know where this is in NYC, but I would love to live there! I think Jeff Daniels is simply brilliant in this film, and Mary Steenbergen too. The scene where DM tells her she's a singer is lovely & the sparky scenes between JD & DM are so sweet and funny too!
I think that Demi Moore was bold to go with the little known Ocracoke, NC accent because most people will probably (wrongly) think that she was doing a very bad job at a North Carolinian/Southern USA accent. Ocracoke is a small, fisherman's island at the bottom of the North Carolina Outer Banks island chain and is only accessible by ferry. This isolation has kept the accent there mostly unaltered since the 17th century days when it was inhabited by British seamen. The Ocracoke accent sounds like a mixture of Brit and Yank, so what you hear Demi Moore doing in this movie is really quite accurate.I also enjoyed the cozy portrayal of the Manhattan (NYC) side street neighborhood life. The NYC avenues tend to be wide, impersonal and busy, but the narrower, townhouse and small shop filled side streets can be quite friendly. It gives me some nice, childhood nostalgic memories to see the happier, day-to-day aspect of NYC life shown in this film.I watch this romantic comedy whenever it is on TV, and I have no complaints about it at all. I find it to be a sweet, feel-good film with occasional hints at magic realism, but without plunging too far into that iffy genre.I feel that all the players did good jobs, and that the locations and settings felt very true. Nice production values too.If you like "Moonstruck", then you will probably like "The Butcher's Wife" too.