This Year's Love

1999 "Your pad or mine?"
6.3| 1h48m| en
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The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
robert_gray ....I have seen! Great cast and soundtrack but the both the story line and script are awful.Whilst understanding that people may want a more 'gritty' romantic comedy than say Four Weddings or Love Actually this film fails to deliver.In fact I do not think it was a comedy at all! Also I felt no feeling or love towards any of the characters.All of them did not have my sympathy or understanding as quite frankly they are a dismal self obsessed bunch (Sophie being the worst offender!) This is meant to be more 'real' than the other British films I have mentioned. But thank God I have not ever come across people like this during my relationships in real life!!! There are much better 'realistic' British films out there and great romantic comedies like Four Weddings, Notting Hill etc etc
xargle Let me start by saying that i cannot believe i wasted 1 hour and 45 minutes of my life by watching this film. I seriously expected so much better when my friend and I rented it. As it was, I had to stop her, and myself from turning off halfway through. When it finished we cheered- not because the ending was good but because we were so pleased that it was over.From an interesting beginning, This Year's love goes downhill all the way. The tangled love- lives of the characters is not only unbelievable but also badly acted. The only character i really felt for was Liam, and i stopped feeling for him once he recovered from his attempted suicide and became an utter psycho. Kathy Burke was good but not good enough that i liked her characterAll i can say is, if you are thinking of renting this- only do so if you've got 2 hours to waste and it's the only thing left in the video store! I give it 3/10.... and thats pushing it!
Joe-144-2 If you fancy spending two hours watching unpleasant, self-absorbed characters shag around and bitch about one another witlessly, see this film. If you want to see it done with style, rent a Barry Levinson film or even an Eastenders omnibus. I found this movie totally pointless; the lack of any sort of climax or resolution makes a point about the aimlessness of the characters but makes for very dull viewing. Ian Hart is terrific but Jennifer Ehle is woeful; I've never seen her play a scene without that smirk on her face. Thank God for Kathy Bates, whose blunt tones are a relief during this movie's posturing.
Millais Well, I have read other comments less than flattering but my wife and I loved it. I don't care about the coincidences and any small contrivances, the characters were so well portrayed that by the end I knew them all personally and could relate them to people in my past. Don't get picky, do you want more of this or more 'You've got Mail'? I know what I prefer.