Cupid and Cate (2000)

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The movie is based on the novel CUPID and DIANA by Christina Bartolomeo

It stars Mary-Louise Parker and Peter Gallagher

Directed by Brent Shields

Written for the screen by Ron Raley and Jennifer Miller

At first glance this movie is very shallow.  It has all the ingredients of a normal movie.  One of the protagonists is in a very boring situation, which was comfortable, until that person meets the very exciting replacement.  It's so Mills & Boon or Harlequin or Silhouette novel type a story.  The book is actually wilder than the movie, but this movie has a few surprises the book didn't offer.

As a Daddy's girl who still loves her mother, I couldn't relate with Cate's situation with her dad, but I could relate with her relationship with both men in her life.

Just when she thought everything was coming up roses, she discovers the many, many thorns attached to the roses stems.

It becomes a bit heavy, but eventually...

Acting wise, they are all laudable.

Did the casting director do a good job?  Yes.  Who cares if Mary Louise Parker looks a bit more mature than Joanna Going.  She still played the part of the youngest daughter quite well.  It suited her to the T.  

She and Peter Gallagher look good together.  She had some chemistry with David Landsbury, but somehow you would guess where the story was heading also at first glance.

It wasn't what I felt when Bill Pullman played the boring fiancé, even if I knew Meg Ryan's role would end up with Tom Hanks.  It was Harry and Cate the first moment he first entered the scene.

Philip Bosco and Bebe Neuwirth were the other familiar faces in this movie. For me they really look like members of the same Italian-Irish family.

I think it's the first time to meet Rebecca Luker and Brenda Fricker, but they delivered.

So did the rest of the cast, no matter how big and small their roles were.  They were...are all important.

Anyways, may I just say that if I didn't see that this Hallmark TV movie was shown in the year 2000, I would think this was shown in the late 1980s or the early 1990s?  Maybe it was meant to be the way.

Harry has a great disposition and if he were a real person, I would fall in love with him.  

Sigh.

I want to say more, but I don't wanna give the story away too much.

I hope you get to watch this too.

Thanks for taking time to read my two cents worth.

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MAIN CHARACTERS:

 Mary-Louise Parker - Cate DeAngelo

Peter Gallagher - Harry

Bebe Neuwirth - Francesca

Philip Bosco - Dominic DeAngelo

Rebecca Luker - Annette

Joanna Going - Cynthia

Brenda Fricker - Willie Hendley

David Lansbury - Philip