I enjoyed this movie. I agree with many reviewers that it has faults. It's none too believable for instance, but what movie is? The problem is that this movie's make-believe world is just too obvious. Deliberately so! That factor didn't worry me. Nor did the ridiculous depiction of the writer himself until the very end when his agent hands him $100,000. Now this is really fairy-tale land! I can put up with a writer who is blank one moment, word-perfect the next, but no agent ever handed any writer an advance of even $10, let alone $100,000! Agents don't give their clients advances. On rare occasions in the past, a publisher might he induced by the author's agent to hand a really consistently bestselling author an advance of $10,000 – from which the agent will subtract at least 10% and maybe even 15% or 20% – but those days are gone with the wind, alas! All the same, despite its faults, this movie is still worth seeing, if only for Kate Hudson who excels here in not one but FIVE roles! Available on an excellent Warner Brothers DVD.
Review of Alex & Emma
