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Love and Other Disasters
A comedy that proves love is blind.
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.
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Synopsis
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.
More about Love and Other Disasters
Cast
Brittany MurphyEmily Jackson
Matthew RhysPeter Simon
Santiago CabreraPaolo Sarmiento
Catherine TateTallulah Wentworth
Jamie SivesFinlay
Stephanie BeachamFelicity Wentworth
Gwyneth PaltrowJacks
Orlando BloomPaoloCredits
- Directed by
- Alek Keshishian
- Written by
- Alek Keshishian
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $9M
- Box office
- $6.4M
Production
- Skyline FilmsUnited Kingdom
EuropaCorpFrance- Ruby FilmsUnited Kingdom
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