Kate & Leopold (2001)
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Duration: 121 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: James Mangold
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Meg Ryan and Liev Schreiber
IMDb score:
6,4 (93.598)
Releasedate: 25 December 2001
Kate & Leopold plot
"If they lived in the same century, they'd be perfect for each other."
Kate McKay is a businesswoman who no longer believes in love. One day, her ex Stuart introduces her to his guest, Leopold. Stuart says that Leopold is a 19th century count who came here through a break in the time-space continuum. Kate doesn't believe any of this, and thinks Leopold is an actor who doesn't know when to stop playing his character. As Leopold learns about the 21st century, Stuart must find a way to bring Leopold back to his own time.
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Kate McKay
Leopold
Stuart Besser
Charlie McKay
Darci
J.J. Camden
Uncle Millard
Dr. Geisler
Colleague Bob
Ad Executive Phil
Reviews & comments
J.Ch.
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- 541 messages
- 744 votes
Why does Meg Ryan have to walk around in this again? In addition to her horrible haircut, she also makes sure that I can't call this film good with her subpar acting performance. And what a pity that is! Time travel and romantic film go well together in my opinion, especially when the film does not attempt to be too serious. The plot isn't much, but for a film like this that doesn't necessarily have to be a problem as long as the actors are doing well. I don't think Hugh Jackman is bad here at all, quite the contrary. It doesn't take much for him to look like a British Earl from a century and a half earlier in 21st-century New York. He was astonishingly believable and charming - certainly not a punishment to watch. But then Meg Ryan... Her presence was cringe-inducing, unfortunately. Both alone and in combination with Jackman, she fails almost every scene. Such a shame, this could have earned the film an extra star. Now Kate & Leopold is stuck at 2.5 stars for me.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6070 messages
- 2476 votes
When I go through all 81 posts that have been written with this film over the (17½) years, I especially notice how Meg Ryan is being slated here. Bizarre though: according to IMDb, she was paid a whopping $15 million for her participation in this film, so the studio was confident that she would lure viewers to the cinema, but that didn't quite work out, since the film with a budget of $48m brought in just $76m. Definitely not enough, so apparently MovieMeter users and American moviegoers have very similar tastes in some ways. And as for those 81 postings, the most striking passage I found in the seventh message, from Jordy on 6-19-2002 about Hugh Jackman : "I really liked his character anyway, was expecting a other-worldly guy, but he soon understood better how the 21st century works than the people who just grew up in this time." With the note that I never saw much in Jackman, neither as Wolverine (only seen two X-men movies) nor in The prestige nor in [i]Prisoners[ /i] (just to name the movies I remember best about him), but in this one I thought he was absolutely perfect : courteous and charming, but never "over-acting" or being silly, just Leopold playing as a smart man who adapts quickly without the actor having to immediately deny the character (or vocabulary!) of his character, nicely giving a human dimension to a time-traveling fantasy figure. Also excellent work by the others (Ryan, the funny and very versatile Schreiber, Bradley Whitford as Ryan's boss and Breckin Meyer as Ryan's adorable brother), and I certainly felt the chemistry between Ryan and Jackman myself, but above all this was Jackman's movie. cheers.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
“Ah Miss Blaine, you dance like a herd of cattle. You are a rare woman who lights up a room simply by leaving it!”
Friendly. For a long time, Jackman was often cast in these kinds of rom-com roles, and in Kate & Leopold he shows that he is also very good at it. Charisma certainly has Mr. Wolverine, and Meg Ryan is of course a romcom pro too. The film is hardly surprising and there is little to laugh about (Schreiber and Meyer in the supporting roles are mediocre), but Ryan and Jackman know how to sell it all.
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