Rating: PG13
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 01/18/2000
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Actor
Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed, and starred in this romantic comedy. Forty-something couple Andy (
Joe Mantegna) and Liz (
Cynthia Stevenson) are about to be married, and as they gather with their friends for dinner not long before the wedding, they are told the story of their mutual friends Mickey (
Billy Crystal) and Ellen (
Debra Winger) as a cautionary tale of where a relationship can go wrong. Mickey is a top referee with the NBA who has traveled to Paris to bury his father, who wanted to be laid to rest with his Army buddies from World War II. The body is somehow lost in transit, and Mickey has an argument with Ellen, who works for an American airline in France. However, she likes his sense of humor, he is taken with her, and after a few days together in Paris, they decide to marry. However, once they return to Mickey's home in the United States, things get complicated; she's not so sure that she cares for his bachelor apartment ("a shrine to watching ESPN"), or juggling her career against his, while both have problems with their respective families. Several major basketball stars and sports figures appear in
Forget Paris as themselves, including
Charles Barkley,
Bill Walton,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and
Marv Albert.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
