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Cousins

1989, Movie, PG-13, 110 mins

Cousins: Review

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While it doesn't measure up to Jean-Charles Tacchella's original COUSIN COUSINE (1976), lacking its pathos and light touch, COUSINS does acquit itself surprisingly well. As in the original, the story develops against a backdrop of several weddings during which a host of relationships are played out in capsule form: families are joined, romances bud, affairs develop, fights erupt. During the wedding of Maria's (Isabella Rossellini) middle-aged mother (Norma Aleandro) to Larry's (Ted Danson) uncle, the film's central relationships emerge. Only when Maria suspects her womanizing car-salesman husband Tom (William Petersen) is having an affair with Tish (Sean Young), Larry's wife, and asks Larry if her suspicions are justified, do the cousins (by marriage) acknowledge their mutual attraction. The script is generally spirited and winning. And after the breathless opening shots, director Joel Schumacher settles in and escorts us through a breezy, if occasionally heavy-handed, romantic comedy. Danson, an engaging presence, imbues Larry with a quirky charm and develops an easy, although sometimes shaky, chemistry with Rossellini, who is fine as the demure Maria (notwithstanding some of the clunky lines with which she is encumbered). leave a comment
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