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Article: FILM REVIEW: Tomei and D'Onofrio happily defy convention

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11-08-2001
(Cornell Daily Sun) (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- Boy meets girl, boy loses girl -- everyone has seen one too many sickeningly sweet romantic comedies. And yet in Happy Accidents, this tired genre is boldly revived when writer and director Brad Anderson merges it with science fiction. An unorthodox match, to say the least (Pretty Woman meets The Matrix?), but what results is a pleasant surprise--an honest and unconventional love story full of charm.

The narrative centers on Ruby (Marisa Tomei), an emphatic codependent who is drawn to the male equivalent of a fixer-upper. She hangs out with hip New Yorkers: loud-mouthed gal pals who …

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