Music and Lyrics (Widescreen Edition)

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First you're hot, then you're not...and then you're Alex Fletcher (HUGH GRANT). So when the sizzlingest tween-queen on the charts asks the has-been '80s pop sensation to write her a song, he grabs for another chance at stardom. Problem: Alex can say it with music, but he sure can't say it with words. Enter Sophie Fisher (DREW BARRYMORE), his beguiling if quirky plant lady, who has a green thumb for lyrics. Together, they go after songwriting success -- and discover that if you want to write the perfect love song, it helps to fall in love. With Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore at the keyboard and Marc Lawrence (Two Weeks Notice) directing, Music and Lyrics is a witty, wacky romantic comedy that faces the music...and laughs!

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• If you like 80s music, you will love this movie!
• Widescreen Edition
• Includes Gag Reel
• Includes Additional Scenes
• Bonus Pop! Goes My Heart Music Video

Music and Lyrics is frothy and sweet, like the top of a perfect cappuccino shared a deux. Hugh Grant is a self-professed "happy has-been," playing his befuddled, adorable persona more spot-on than he has since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Alex, former member of an '80s pop band who years later is playing at water parks and high school reunions, he's settled into a life of lesser expectations. Drew Barrymore, quietly radiant, is Sophie, the underachieving girl Friday who arrives to water--make that overwater--Alex's plants--and to explode him out of that comfy rut. If the plot's a bit farfetched, it matters not, since the two lead characters are so likable--and make such beautiful music together. Big bonus: the supportive role of Kristen Johnston as Rhonda, Sophie's older sis (and longtime Alex fan) whose hilarious performance threatens to steal the show whenever she's onscreen. (The owner of a chain of successful weight-loss centers, Rhonda tries to comfort a rattled Sophie: "Want to do some stress eating?") The film also marks the remarkable debut of Haley Bennett, who plays a pop star of Britney/Cristina proportions with deadpan sincerity radiating through her skimpy outfits and mega-extensions. As Alex and Sophie work on crafting musical magic, something else is taking hold. It's music to the ears of anyone needing a sweet romantic comedy that hits all the right notes. --A.T. Hurley


Music and Lyrics (Widescreen Edition) Customer Review


80's POP sensation Alex Fletcher is comfortable being known as a 'has-been'; after all, the pressure is off now! He's no longer expected to produce anything and he can rest forever on his past achievements. Enter Sophie Fisher, the plant water-er and sometime lyricist. She accidentally reveals her talents to Alex as he tries to hammer out a new song for world-wide teenie-bopper sensation CORA (think Miley Cyrus in a thong). From here on, we can enjoy a typical Hugh Grant love story... a romantic comedy that does not disappoint, even for a few scenes.

Anyone who loves Hugh's romantic comedies, I'm thinking NOTTING HILL and TWO WEEKS NOTICE, will be thrilled with this additional installment of the Hugh Grant Love Connection.

Quirky, sexy, funny and oh-so-loveable, come on in and have some Hugh on me. You'll leave laughing.

Ellen C Maze, author Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider
(vampire fiction for the discerning reader)

P.S. CORA uses Buddhistic teachings in her songs and employs a gigantic Buddha statue in her stage show, so just letting you know.

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