Moral of the story: Be careful who you kiss.

It's almost like an adult version of " Freaky Friday " from 2003 or somewhat like the movie " All of Me " from 1984 ( IMPO of course ) . Still it's an amusing movie just the same .

I agree. I'm sitting here thinking "wtf this is a REALLY weird movie." Just a downright strange concept. And I've seen some pretty weird beep

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"Never, never to be squanderedthe miracle of another human being"
and that line right there is one of the many reasons that i love this film.
before we get started, does anyone want to get out?

Thank you ladybluelady33!!
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MSStMarie,
You are so Right. this movie is what love should be, truly.
I love what you wrote.

You summed it up PERFECTLY for me !

I agree with you. The baby part was WHACKADOODLE. gross

A major point or theme of the movie seems to have been missed here.
This movie was written by a gay man. I rmember reading somehwere, that part of what he was trying to achieve is to make a non-gay audience understand or at least appreciate what goes into an attraction between two men. For better or worse, there is a gay agenda for this movie. Both the director and writer were gay men (the director has died from AIDs complication so I used past tense).
So when Alec Baldwin kisses the Old Man, we as the audience are intended to identify with what he is feeling in bringing himself to make that kiss, and to see that love and even attraction can transcend the bodies that we find ourselves in, even if the two bodies in question are same sex.

The 1st time I watched this movie, I wasn't crazy about it. But now I've seen it 2 more times, & everytime I do, it makes me think more about relationships & caring about someone else, etc. I think it must have been very hard to act (without OVERACTING) like an old man or a young woman. I think it is a much better film than many people on here seem to think. Maybe it is too deep for them?

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You are right, michellebeacham. Too bad there is no intelligence test required for posters here. Shallow Hal up there would have been weeded out.

Well some people are just shallow that way.
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Im not even kidding this movie is horriblehorrible :S I kept watching it cuz of how hoOOOTTT Meg Ryan is in this film
3 thumbs downjustwowhe actually kissed the old manand the old man wanted to have his babywhat an abomination LMAO

I agree with you completely.
Part of what I LOVE about this movie is how he KNOWS it's herit's not about just sex, though they imply the sex is great (to prove there's no lacking in that departmentto prove he loves her SOUL).
"Never, never to be squanderedthe miracle of another human being"
The fact that he kissed a man that he knew held HER SOUL
The fact that he wanted nothing to do with the gorgeous body that DIDN'T hold her soul.
This movie would be crap without that message.
It's what MAKES it for me.
He paid attention to who she WAS and he LOVED it.good or bad or weird or whatever
Still, as an artist and as someone who has acted, I look upon the task of taking that ON and making it WORKit is formidable.
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I like to focus less on the aspect of the switching when I watch this movie, but more on the fact of two young people getting to know each other and the fact that they realize how compatible they are with each other. I mean think about it, how hard it would be to have a relationship without kissing/sex/intimacy. Yet they made it through and in the mean time focused on the relationship itself rather than sex, etc. I think it also gave a greater appreciation for each other.

I agree.
He captured her sort of whimsical quirkiness, but she only came across as sort of menacing when trying to portray him.
I didn't see him as being menacing at all when he was "himself," so that didn't work for me.
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When I was watching Sydney Walker, I could see Meg Ryan through him. The way he spoke, facial expressions, his movement. However, I didn't really see him through Meg Ryan. I suppose it could be harder to portray an older man rather than acting like a young woman.

Think about the challenge of those roles for the actors involved.
When I watch this movie, I'm mainly thinking about the actors and their craftso in a way, it may not be entirely successful in its suspension of disbelief.
Still, I thought it was a sweet little movie.
I'd really like to know more about how Meg Ryan and Sydney Walker approached their rolesdid he watch her play a scene the way SHE'D do it and then do it that way, and vice versa? Or did they each just do it their own way according to the way the characters were written?
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That's probably why I liked itit was a little quirky. It's always nice to see Meg in something where she gets to do more than tilt her head and giggle. Also, I remember liking it better when I saw it on stage.
"Go forth and multiplynot you though, you're annoying."