Movie
description |
-Jennifer
Aniston
-Kevin
Costner
With
the
romantic
comedy
RUMOR
HAS
IT,
director
Rob
Reiner
(WHEN
HARRY
MET
SALLY)
attempts
the
tricky
task
of
creating
a
film
based
on
an
already
celebrated
classic,
1967’s
THE
GRADUATE.
Starring
Dustin
Hoffman
and
based
on a
novel
by
Charlie
Webb,
the
original
film
revolved
around
the
love
triangle
between
a
recent
college-graduate,
his
girlfriend,
and
her
famously
seductive
mother.
Here,
Reiner
casts
a
chain-smoking
Shirley
MacLaine
as
the
supposed
real-life
inspiration
for
Mrs.
Robinson,
and
Jennifer
Aniston
as
her
granddaughter.
Set
for
the
most
part
within
the
gossipy
community
of
Pasadena,
California,
the
film
follows
Sarah
Huttinger
(Aniston)
and
her
fiancé
(Mark
Ruffalo)
as
they
travel
home
for
her
perky
sister’s
(Mena
Suvari)
wedding.
Having
nothing
in
common
with
her
family,
Sarah
is
intrigued
upon
learning
that
she
may
actually
be
the
secret
love
child
of
her
deceased
mother
and
Beau
Borroughs
(Kevin
Costner),
the
man
whose
affairs
with
both
Sarah’s
mother
and
grandmother
supposedly
inspired
Charlie
Webb,
a
classmate
and
friend
of
Beau,
to
write
THE
GRADUATE.
From
here,
Sarah
seeks
out
Beau,
interested
in
him
as a
father-like
figure
and
possibly
more.
Aniston
brings
a
Rachel-like
(FRIENDS)
comic
vibe
to
her
character,
frequently
expressing
her
neuroses
by
talking
to
herself
out
loud
in a
sitcom-ish
style.
Costner
is
plenty
capable
in
his
role,
but
even
with
Beau’s
riches
and
charm,
viewers
may
find
it
hard
to
understand
why
a
young
woman
would
embark
on a
romance
with
the
same
man
who
bedded
her
mother
and
grandmother.
Reiner’s
script
veers
away
from
the
classic
romantic
comedy
formula
by
keeping
Ruffalo’s
character
at
the
sidelines.
Rather,
RUMOR
HAS
IT
focuses
on
one
woman’s
journey
towards
adulthood,
self-realization,
and
acceptance
of
her
origins
via
a
path
that
while
strange
and
potentially
incestuous,
seems
to
be
family
tradition.
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of
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1948-2006
Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
Europe
Ltd.
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