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From Google Images 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 event...

      Happy birthday, Mary-Louise Parker !  You're a year shy from fifty . :) Retired and Extremely Dangerous , indeed! Directed by Dean Parisot Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura Screenplay by Jon Hoeber Erich Hoeber Based on Red by  Warren Ellis Cully Hamner Starring Bruce Willis  as Frank Moses John Malkovich  as Marvin Boggs Mary-Louise Parker  as Sarah Ross Catherine Zeta-Jones  as Katya Lee Byung-hun  as Han Jo-Bae Anthony Hopkins  as Dr. Edward Bailey Helen Mirren  as Victoria Winslow Brian Cox  as Ivan Simanov David Thewlis  as The Frog Neal McDonough  as Jack Horton Titus Welliver  (uncredited) Music by Alan Silvestri Cinematography Enrique Chediak Editing by Don Zimmerman Studio DC Entertainment di Bonaventura Pictures Distributed by Summit Entertainment Red 2 is a twisted and funny story about true love, friendship, espionage, revenge and all that ja...