Forget Paris | | Cast : | Billy Crystal, Debra Winger | | Director : | Billy Crystal | | Studio : | Castle Rock | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | May 19, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | January 18, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | March 23, 2005 | | Summary | Billy and Debra forget Paris | Content
 | Billy Crystal is a basketball referee who meets the woman of his dreams(Debra Winger). Winger is Helen,an airline ticket agent who arranges a foreign flight to Paris for funeral services for Crystal's character's father. Supporting Crystal and Winger are Richard Masur,Julie Kavner,Joe Mantegna and Cynthia Stevenson. The latter four are in a restaurant in one segmented but continuous scene. Masur and Kavner are telling stories about the romance of Crystal's and Winger's characters,very much like Crystal's 1989 film WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. In another scene,Crystal's character could no longer manage to referee a basketball game because he's so distraught over his break-up with Helen. The couple shortly later made up. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 07, 2004 | | Summary | Bill walton cant act and he played basketball AND HES NOT | Content
| 1 of the 50 best ever what is wrong with people??? How can a LOSER have 3 good years and still be 1 of the 50 best????????? |
| Rating | | | Date | January 05, 2004 | | Summary | romantic comedy wins despite itself | Content
| Debra Winger and Billy Crystal are surprisingly well matched in this romantic comedy. The two meet in Paris where Mickey Gordon (Crystal) has come to bury is father, a WWII vet for whom Mickey had little love. When papa's coffin gets lost, it falls to Ellen Andrews (Winger), an airline exec to help him out. Paris is magical, and they fall in love. Unfortunately, while there love endures, that Parisian spark doesn't survive the wedding. Crystal's bachelor life proves harder to leave behind than he thought (Mickey has what amounts to Bill Crystal's dream job - as an utterly fearless NBA ref - but may have to sacrifice it; He may also have to bear living with Winger's dementia-plagued father played by William Hickey). She may have to bear the obvious unhappiness of causing Mickey to lose his dream job, not to mention his loutish friends, including Joe Mantegna as a sportswriter, and primetime TV vet John Spencer ("LA Law", "West Wing") as a serial divorcee who derisively refers to his latest spouse as "the new Mrs. Jack." If "Paris" is uneven it's because it's trying to be a romantic comedy that is often not very romantic or that funny. Still, the flick knows when to light things up (much of the story is told over dinner by Mickey's friends - especially Mantegna who display's a reporter's knack for knowing where his audience's attentions will flag, and a gift for reclaiming them) and in the end, romance wins. |
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