Post by pauliepoos on Feb 4, 2008 19:44:49 GMT
To save people the pain of spending over 2 hours watching this film, I've précised the plot in a spoiler below.
Hillary and Gerard are in love and have a fight and then make up. Her arms are as muscly as his,, but his gut isn't nearly as ripped as 300, or as flat as hers.
Time goes by and Gerard dies of a brain tumour and they have a wake where a sister with blond hair turns up from Australia. They listen to a horribly edited version of Fairytale Of New York and get drunk in the bar, which is run by Hillary's mother, Kathy Bates, and where a new barman, Harry Jnr, has just started working. At one point he finds her in a cupboard and she cries. Hillary has two friends, Lisa and Gina. Lisa can't move her forehead properly due to botox and treats men the way men treat women. Gina doesn't do very much and is married to Spike, who was Gerard's best friend.
Overcome with grief Hillary doesn't leave her flat for a month and gets dirty and on her 30th birthday (she looks closer to 40) her mum and friends turn up with balloons, and a cake gets delivered, and it's from her dead husband with a dictaphone with a message from him and a letter saying he's going to write to her from the grave.
The girls then decide to go to a gay club where very muscly men dance without their shirts on and some FABULOUS gay men offer Hillary advice. There's a thing involving finger snaps which is too awful for words.
She then gets another letter and has flashbacks to a karaoke event where she sang Prince's Gett Off and fell off the stage and broke her nose. She also spends some time with Harry Jnr and they become friends, with Harry Jnr flirting at every opportunity.
Then a few other things happen and she goes to Ireland with Lisa and Gina where she meets a man in the pub who she thinks is hot and she talks to him and then he dedicates a song to her that Gerard once sang to her and she leaves the pub and the next day goes fishing where Lisa drops her make up into the lake and they lose the oars and wait to get rescued by someone which turns out to be the hot singer! So they invite him back and he has a shower, as you do, and Hillary sees him butt naked and they sleep together and then she finds out she met him before the first time she came to Ireland and met Gerard when he was singing in the band and sang the same song, and he said he and Gerard used to be mates. The next day he drives her to Gerard's parents and she gets another letter. Oh yes, Lisa is getting married and Gina is pregnant.
They go back to NYC and Hillary avoids everyone for a long time and then has a brainwave that she'll become a shoe designer and makes some ugly shoes. She goes to see Lisa at a dress fitting and Lisa is angry, but her face still can't show expression properly and Hillary offers to make it up to her by making her wedding shoes.
Then she gets friendly again with Harry Jnr and has an argument with Kathy, because the dad left them and Hillary thinks her mother has been too cold, and then she has a mini breakdown and it's revealed Kathy has been sending the letters on behalf of Gerard even though they didn't get on. This scene was actually quite good, only because Kathy is such a good actress. Hillary observes that she's never heard Kathy laugh. Cue more flashbacks of her and Gerard.
So Hillary shorts out her shit and goes out with Harry Jnr and it's the anniversay of Gerard's death and they kiss and she says she doesn't feel Gerry's presence any more and she's free!!
There's then a montage of Lisa's wedding and Gina's baby and Hillary's ugly shoes in a shop and she takes a trip to Ireland with her Kathy and she bumps into the butt naked hottie, who introduces his father, who makes Kathy laugh!!! Butt naked man askes Hillary if she's going to be around and she says yes.
THE END.
Time goes by and Gerard dies of a brain tumour and they have a wake where a sister with blond hair turns up from Australia. They listen to a horribly edited version of Fairytale Of New York and get drunk in the bar, which is run by Hillary's mother, Kathy Bates, and where a new barman, Harry Jnr, has just started working. At one point he finds her in a cupboard and she cries. Hillary has two friends, Lisa and Gina. Lisa can't move her forehead properly due to botox and treats men the way men treat women. Gina doesn't do very much and is married to Spike, who was Gerard's best friend.
Overcome with grief Hillary doesn't leave her flat for a month and gets dirty and on her 30th birthday (she looks closer to 40) her mum and friends turn up with balloons, and a cake gets delivered, and it's from her dead husband with a dictaphone with a message from him and a letter saying he's going to write to her from the grave.
The girls then decide to go to a gay club where very muscly men dance without their shirts on and some FABULOUS gay men offer Hillary advice. There's a thing involving finger snaps which is too awful for words.
She then gets another letter and has flashbacks to a karaoke event where she sang Prince's Gett Off and fell off the stage and broke her nose. She also spends some time with Harry Jnr and they become friends, with Harry Jnr flirting at every opportunity.
Then a few other things happen and she goes to Ireland with Lisa and Gina where she meets a man in the pub who she thinks is hot and she talks to him and then he dedicates a song to her that Gerard once sang to her and she leaves the pub and the next day goes fishing where Lisa drops her make up into the lake and they lose the oars and wait to get rescued by someone which turns out to be the hot singer! So they invite him back and he has a shower, as you do, and Hillary sees him butt naked and they sleep together and then she finds out she met him before the first time she came to Ireland and met Gerard when he was singing in the band and sang the same song, and he said he and Gerard used to be mates. The next day he drives her to Gerard's parents and she gets another letter. Oh yes, Lisa is getting married and Gina is pregnant.
They go back to NYC and Hillary avoids everyone for a long time and then has a brainwave that she'll become a shoe designer and makes some ugly shoes. She goes to see Lisa at a dress fitting and Lisa is angry, but her face still can't show expression properly and Hillary offers to make it up to her by making her wedding shoes.
Then she gets friendly again with Harry Jnr and has an argument with Kathy, because the dad left them and Hillary thinks her mother has been too cold, and then she has a mini breakdown and it's revealed Kathy has been sending the letters on behalf of Gerard even though they didn't get on. This scene was actually quite good, only because Kathy is such a good actress. Hillary observes that she's never heard Kathy laugh. Cue more flashbacks of her and Gerard.
So Hillary shorts out her shit and goes out with Harry Jnr and it's the anniversay of Gerard's death and they kiss and she says she doesn't feel Gerry's presence any more and she's free!!
There's then a montage of Lisa's wedding and Gina's baby and Hillary's ugly shoes in a shop and she takes a trip to Ireland with her Kathy and she bumps into the butt naked hottie, who introduces his father, who makes Kathy laugh!!! Butt naked man askes Hillary if she's going to be around and she says yes.
THE END.