Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Marianne I don't think this is one of the best romantic comedy's. It's not very good compared to movies like notting hill, two weeks notice or you've got mail. From a romantic comedy I suspect romance and comedy. I found this more a drama with a few romantic and comical pieces in it. There are funny elements in this movie (Jack for example is very funny with the baby sometimes) and there is some kind of romance in this movie, but the two leading actors don't make me believe they really like each other. It is not a bad movie, it was good for a nice evening of watching television, but it is not the movie I will watch over and over again. Nevertheless I like Richard E Grant in this movie, he and the baby make this movie worth watching. I'm curious about other movies of him.

jotix100 "Jack and Sarah", the delightful comedy directed by Tim Sullivan, was shown recently on cable. The appeal of the film lies largely in the fabulous cast that was put together. Mr. Sullivan delivers a 'feel good' movie that will warm hearts for viewers of all ages.When Jack's wife dies, suddenly, he is left alone with an infant girl. Jack has no clue about what to do with the baby. His life goes into a tailspin. Enter his kind parents and former mother-in-law. They all have ideas about what to do with Sarah, but Jack ends up resenting their interference. That's when he has the bright idea of getting a nanny for little Sarah.Amy, the girl he hires, is probably the wrong kind for the job. Little does Jack know, Amy doesn't have a clue about children, let alone, how to handle them. The only thing that is clear is that Amy loves her little charge. Amy and Sarah seem to have been made for one another. Jack warms up to the babysitter and they find one another in love because of Sarah.Richard E. Grant is a versatile actor. He is tremendously appealing as the confused father of a baby he was not prepared to handle. Samantha Mathis makes an endearing Amy, the girl that steals Jack's heart. Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen are seen in in supporting roles that add great charm to the film.This is a fun film thanks to Tim Sullivan.

didi-5 Although 'Jack and Sarah' is undoubtedly twee and contrived, there is something extremely watchable about a story where a young dad (Jack, played by Richard E Grant), is left to look after his baby when his wife (Sarah, played by Imogen Stubbs) dies in childbirth.Helped and hindered in equal measure by his mother and mother-in-law (Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins), Jack begins to bond with his child and thrives with the support of ditzy nanny Amy (Samantha Mathis) and street dropout Matthew (Ian McKellen in a lovely performance as the wino who becomes the perfect butler and baby minder).Pleasant and undemanding, this drama will make you smile and bring tears to your eyes (using 'Stars' by Simply Red to good effect), but it is far from being a 'good' film.

mfisher452 Life is not neat or logical. People can act irrationally or inconsistently and regret it later. Even when we try our best, with the best of intentions, things can go wrong. Events don't develop along straight lines. Beginnings and endings are often blurred and uncertain. Apparently random elements are always intruding. Does that mean a film that has those qualities is disorganized and frustrating or true to life? We've seen this story, or something like it, before: Man madly in love with wife loses her in childbirth, struggles to rebuild his life, encounters massive problems with care of the baby before finding Ms. Wrong Nanny who of course turns out to be Ms. Right Number Two. Why should anyone watch this one? MY reason for watching it is that I will watch anything with Samantha Mathis in it. Why should YOU watch it? Well, it's English, very much in the style of Richard Curtis's films such as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. It even has the same gimmick of an American woman in London (Amy, the Mathis character). But while this film has her plus a very strong British supporting cast, the disappointment is at the center: The Grant in this film, Richard E., is just no match for Curtis's Grant (Hugh); or maybe he was disastrously miscast. The Curtis films, while having as many pieces as Jack and Sarah, manage somehow to put them together better, and even when those films are just sort of noodling along, the hilarious one-liners are enough to keep the viewer going until something actually happens. Jack and Sarah's script is just not up to the caliber of the Curtis films. I would like to have learned more about how Amy (the Mathis character) wound up in London, or why she was working as a waitress. I would have liked to learn more about Jack's (Grant's) job as a solicitor: As with Ally McBeal, L.A. Law and The Practice, no actual work ever seems to transpire in the office. The most implausible element is the transformation of the character William (Ian McKellen): When we first see him, he is an alcoholic bum living on the street, and the next thing you know, he is living in Jack's house in the position of a very propah butler or butler equivalent. I suspect some intervening scenes didn't make the final cut.