A meticulous and oddly leaden homage to the cotton-candy colored sex comedies of the late 1950s and early '60s, particularly those starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall. New York City, 1962: Small-town librarian Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger) pens a scandalous pre-feminist manifesto, "Down With Love," advising women to stop dating, get jobs and eat plenty of endorphin-producing chocolate until they're sufficiently liberated from romantic illusions to enjoy recreational rolls in the hay like men. Through the machinations of her ambitious editor, Vicki Hiller (Sarah Paulson, in the archetypal Eve Arden role), Barbara's book becomes an international phenomen...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins