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Article: 'Love Is Strange,' But Not Fun to Watch.(Brief Article)(Review)
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- Multichannel News
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- February 8, 1999
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The title Love Is Strange may lead you to mentally conjure up a kicky pop tune from the early 1960s, but Lifetime Television's original film of the same name has none of that charm or lightness. Instead, it's a miscast disease-of-the-week movie that's not much fun to watch.
Even with a long lens and soft focus, it's tough to buy Kate Nelligan (Kathryn) and Ron Silver (Tom) as hippie 20-somethings at the beginning of the film. It's even a stretch to envision them as longhaired young parents, even with the best of wigs.
But you know that you're in trouble when a movie tagged as a tale of love, divorce and redemption devotes about 10 minutes to the first ...