The orchestral score - featuring cello and pianos - by Paolo Buonvino and Guy Farley provides pleasant accompaniment, and the film is shot in Toronto, so there’s a bit of fun for locals to be had in playing “spot the location.”
Methinks there is a subtle feminist subtext here but it’s difficult to be certain and even harder to care.įortunately, writer/director Joan Carr-Wiggin has cast Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden in the lead as Madelyn who wrings every last drop of comedy and pathos from a script that has a paucity of both. Things get even sillier (though not funnier) when Madelyn is - again, inadvertently - cast as the female lead in a production of King Lear with Lucy cast as the Fool. Both women agree to take the advice of the other in managing their respective affaires d’amour. Madelyn inadvertently becomes a confidante of Lucy, her husband’s mistress, while concealing her true identity and pretending to be having an affair of her own. If I Were You (2006 film), a Brazilian film If I Were You (2012 Canadian film), a comedy-drama film starring Marcia Gay Harden If I Were You (2012 Chinese film), a romantic comedy film Other uses If I Were You (podcast), a comedy advice podcast hosted by Jake and Amir This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title If I Were You. The title derives from the film’s central plot contrivance. It’s the kind of film for which the word “meh” was invented. Okay, the film is not that painfully bad. Cast & Crew Joan Carr-WigginDirector, Screenplay Marcia Gay HardenCast Leonor WatlingCast Joseph KellCast Aidan QuinnCast Bruce WorrallCinematography.
Here’s a safe prediction: movie critics are going to have fun with the title of If I Were You.įor example, If I were you, I’d rather get shingles to avoid being dragged to this film, or if I were you, I’d rather eat Tabasco-flavoured ice cream or nail my hand to a wall or. Opens Friday at the Kingsway and Big Picture Gerrard. If you like If I Were You you might like. Written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin. Canadian-British comedy-drama from Joan Carr-Wiggin starring Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling and Aidan Quinn. The wife’s life is transformed in unexpected ways as she, like Lear, struggles with matters of mortality and betrayal, loyalty and love.Starring Marcia Gay Harden and Leonor Watling. The wife’s plan backfires when the mistress an aspiring actress, orders her to play King Lear with the mistress playing the Fool in a hilariously amateur production. The first time Beangrowers featured on a film soundtrack was in 1998 when. She knows her husband is sleeping with the other woman. of the indie comedy-drama If I Were You, starring Marcia Gay Harden. The Glass Case If Lange really bails on AHS after this season, I suggest Marcia Gay Harden takes her place as resident awesome/crazy lady. THANK YOU - JenniferLH After watching it this morning, I forgot to comment that she is spectacular in The Mist. Two women who meet by chance make a pact to fix their troubled lives: they will each do what the other one says. Watching Marcia Gay Harden in 'If I Were You' for the 10th or 11th time. If I Were You combines comedy and drama in a powerful and entertaining story of two women who become the unlikeliest of friends. Rounding out the cast are Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau and Bethany Jillard. Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling, and Aidan Quinn star in the comedy drama, written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin ( A Previous Engagement). Principal photography begins today on If I Were You, shooting for five weeks on location in Toronto, it was announced by producer David Gordian.