Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Jocelyn265
Kimberly,, a movie of comedy, love, and hardship. This is a movie that will make you laugh, cry, and get that warm feeling in your heart. The first time I saw it I didn't even get up to go to the bathroom, and I had to go very bad. The movie is not meant for manly men, it is a "chik-flick".But a damn good one! It is one of those films that wants to make you laugh and cry at the same time, with a happy ending that makes you happy. Gabrielle Anwar is an exeptional actor along with the rest of the cast! Girls, this is defineately a movie to go rent!!!!!
David Opdyke
This includes "spoilers" but the thing is already so thoroughly rotten, it shouldn't matter, unless you want to be surprised at just how unbelievably lame a flick can be...You know the kind of film you somehow find yourself accidentally watching and are unable to look away, as if it were a car wreck... Kimberly is one of those.Sure she's adorable, but... really! In brief, she's coaching four buddies on a rowing team, and they all vow not to date her, but of course each does, without any of the others knowing... When she turns up pregnant, she tells the boys she wants them all to be dads... the guys bicker a little, but agree. It's ludicrous! No one seems to want any kind of paternity testing, or cares that there's only a 1/4 chance they ARE the father (well, the one guy who KNOWS he's not, just pretends to not know because he's so darned sensitive)... The only one who calls her "a slut" is the one was cheating on his own girlfriend, so I guess that's supposed to nullify that prospect. (Of the remaining two, one's a spastic manchild who passed out drunk and doesn't know he never slept with Kimmie, and the other is a neurotic who actually IS the father, unless there was a 5th gun...)So they're all being supportive, buying her things, arranging the medical care, wigging out their family members, etc. and when it comes to delivery time, things get all wacky with loads of "screwball hijinx" as everyone rushes to the hospital. The delivery scene continues this jarring "comedic" tilt...In the end, the non-fathers discover they were somewhat misled by the Row Ho' as I like to call her, but golly gee, Kim's such a swell gal, they don't mind that this whole thing basically ruined their lives in one way or another. Never mind about the real dad... the guy whose main solo scenes show him in therapy... sure, let him think she's screwing EVERYONE, he can handle it.Not to spoil EVERYTHING, I won't tell you whether the "rowing team" (out-of-shape and mentally disturbed as they are) wins the big race against the obligatorily clad-in-black bad guy team :)
patdukfan
Well, ever since I read about the making of this movie all the way back in the fall of 1998, I've been anxiously awaiting to see this film on the big screen. Being a huge Patty Duke fan and someone who really respects the work of her son, Sean Astin, I couldn't wait to see it. The fact that it's filmed here in Philly helped me want to really see it too.When I got to meet Ms. Duke while she was filming her Patty Duke reunion tv movie up in Montreal in 12/98, I asked her about this film. She said it was an odd little film, that her son Sean was in. She just had a cameo in it, as the doctor who delivers the baby towards the end of the film, and if you blinked, you'd miss her. She also said that her son called her up begging her to do it because the person originally hired for the part had to bail out at the last minute and they were stuck, and had to shoot it in a few days. Before Sean could go any further, Patty said to him "Honey, now, let's get to the important part: what are they gonna be paying me?!"She said of her one day on the set that Sean, being the ever so protective son, made everyone stop cursing around the set. Patty then turned to Sean and asked "Does this mean I have to stop cursing too??".With a great cast including, Sean, Molly Ringwald, Chris Rydell, the ever so handsome Scott Lewis, and Gabrielle Anwar as the title charecter, you can't go wrong, even if it's only on a measly two million dollar budget. Let's just say that you can't tell while watching that it was so low budget.The only problem I had with it was that it was way too obvious to me who, out of the four men, the father was, since he was presented in a different way than the others a little later in the film.Laine Kazan is hysterical as Rydell's shrink and of course Patty Duke is brilliant in her 4 minute role as Doctor Feinstenberger (love that name!)All and all---a beatiful ensemble piece with great direction and an eloquent score!
*bucks
In the fall of 1998, in Philadelphia, we started production on a $2mil film that created a new Murphy's Law - "The Kimberly Effect". Things went wrong due to the general ineptness,politely called inexperience, of an odd crew led by the usual Los Angeles cast of meglomaniacal above the line people. This was particularly amusing because if they weren't Europeans, they were Isralis - how do they learn a second language, figure out who to "lunch" with and become the aspiring arbitrars of American pop culture? The only answer - the Kimberly Effect. Last month I got to see this film projected at the Houston International Film Festival, introduced by director Frederic Golchan, who walked right by me 4 or 5 times without recognition, even though in Philadelphia he gave me champagne. Product placement, but champagne none the less. He was busy being schmoozed by the festival folks, so I did not bother him. Amazingly, this picture was sweet and funny and made Philadelphia look beautiful - no small feat. Gabrielle Anwar and Chris Rydell had great chemistry, and people laughed in all the right places. A model turned actor was the only weak link in the cast, and he's so attractive no one else at the theatre seemed to notice. The music was lovely, and all in all, it was a pleasant bit of entertainment. I kept waiting for the film to break, the theatre to burn, the popcorn to spill, but nothing happened. The Kimberly Effect was over. I hope they sell the movie.
