World Famous Comics: Rumor Has It... (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Rumor Has It... (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins Directed By: Rob Reiner Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: HD DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Warner Number of Items: 1 Release Date: May 09, 2006 Running Time: 97 minutes Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2005
Product Description: Warner Brothers Rumor Has It - HD-DVD/DVD Combo Jennifer Aniston portrays Sarah Huttinger, whose return home withher fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper,country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join Sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper -and as Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine and Mark Ruffalo join the fun. The story is rumor. The laughs are real!
Amazon.com: Old pro Shirley MacLaine steals her every scene in Rumor Has It..., a very curiously conceived comedy directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally..., The Princess Bride). Sarah (Jennifer Aniston, The Good Girl) arrives at her sister's wedding with her fiance Jeff (Mark Ruffalo, 13 Going on 30). She's already feeling anxiety-ridden about her impending marriage when she gleans from some odd hints from her grandmother Katherine (MacLaine, The Apartment, Terms of Endearment) that her family was the basis for the movie The Graduate. Quicker that you can say "Mrs. Robinson" she slips away from Jeff to investigate, suspecting that the guy Dustin Hoffman's character was based on--Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner, Tin Cup)--might be her actual father...well, from there the plot takes a few twists, but this is not a movie that succeeds based on its story (which never really becomes persuasive). Instead, Rumor Has It... rests on the surprisingly complex and mature emotional interactions between the characters (particularly given that it's a movie about someone refusing to make choices in her life). Aniston won't win any awards for this, but she certainly gives her role more depth than a typical romantic comedy heroine; Costner and Ruffalo are both in fine form; and MacLaine appears just often enough to inject some delightfully prickly personality into a movie that often teeters on the edge of too much niceness. Also featuring Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) and Mena Suvari (American Beauty). --Bret Fetzer
Aniston Is Great As Usual This is a movie where Jennifer shows all the attributes of a top actress. Whether you like the script or not, (and it is quite unusual), Jennifer makes you believe that she is real. She can be emotional, funny, sad and just plain lovable. The plot has her tracing a link between her family and the family portrayed in the famous movie, "The Graduate", rumored to be a real California family. She is a much underrated actress and this picture can be watched more than once with gusto.
Life is messy, never perfect Rumor Has It
Okay, this is completely fictional. This is NOT based on a true story. But here's the plot:
In 1962, a 42 year-old mother had an affair with the 21 year-old classmate of her daughter. Six months later, and only a week before her wedding to another man, the 21 year-old daughter sleeps with the same guy. The guy's name is Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner). The following year, Burroughs' best friend writes "The Graduate" and the film comes out in 1967. And everyone in Pasadena speculates over which family the book/movie is based.
Now roll ahead thirty years. Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is on her way to her sister's wedding in Pasadena, along with her fiancé (Mark Ruffalo). And, in a drunken moment, her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) hints at what happened thirty years ago. So Sarah immediately wonders if Beau could be her father because she doesn't fit into her family. Her mother has been dead for twenty plus years and she wants answers (she certainly can't ask her father). So she searches him out. And discovers Beau was injured in a prep school soccer game, sustaining blunt testicular injury. He's sterile. She gets drunk and sleeps with him. The following day, while she's sober, she flirts with him and attends a ball. Her fiancé flies all the way across the country, worried that something has happened to her because she doesn't answer her phone. And he walks in on the two of them kissing.
So, there's the rub. She's never understood who she was and now she's screwed up the one relationship that makes sense to her, although she's somewhat of a commitment-phobe. Anyway, she flies home to Pasadena and talks to her grandmother, sister, and father. And, in a very cute twist of fate, discovers that her father was the soccer player who injured Beau in that testicular-injury soccer game. (Yes, I know, very cute.)
Really, this film is about three generations of women, two princes, and a toad. Although the women in this family were easily seduced by Beau, they realized he was a toad and went back to their men, who forgave them. I found that part of this movie very endearing. There's a lot of humor, beautiful scenery of Pasadena, Half Moon Bay (where Beau lives), San Francisco, and New York. The dialogue is spot on, very real and not sappy. There are some great one-liners in this film. One is Shirley MacLaine telling her granddaughter that she hasn't lived until she's been through at least one divorce. Everyone in this film has a happily ever after, except the toad (Beau), who really doesn't deserve one.
Rumor Has It The Graduate is a classic cult film, and since this movie was based on it, I was hoping for the best, but not expecting much. I was never more wrong! Jennifer Aniston was refreshing, but I had dry heaves when she slept with a man her mother and grandmother did especially when she thought at first he could be her father. That is just not entertaining in any situation. Kevin Costner was good in his role, but the ewwww factor was too much. Mark Ruffalo gave probably his best performance to date. The most surprising performance was from Shirley MacLaine, and she was absolutely fabulous. She held her own in every scene. It didn't matter who she shared screen time with, she stole the limelight.
Ummm... Do you know the old joke about deflecting the pain from one part of your body by taking, say, a hammer to your toes? No matter how many times I swung the hammer I could not deflect the pain that was this movie.
Really, people? An average of three stars? This movie was horrible. Rent it before you buy it. And don't in-store rent it; on-line rent it, since it is money already spent. Don't spend an extra cent to watch this film.
Set fire to your money instead of buying this. You'll thank me later.
im a bloke, but i love it.....? ok , i have not watched the HD Disc but seen this one in the Cinema..... Funny because i was bored and there was nothing running in the Theaters so i Watched this one.....? Didn t know its about the Graduate aka Dustin Hoffmann.....Right from the beginning i was into it since im a Huge Fan of the Original The Graduate.... Shirley MacLAINE was very very Funny/Jennifer and Costner beliveable and i would say not really/only a CHICKS Movie.....If you like The Graduate from the 60is than get this as a kinda Sequel Whatever happened after the Graduate.....? I give it five Stars because i was really Surprised and into this while Watching....It took me 100 minutes away from the reality of today......Im really looking forward of Watching it again on HD when my time is right.....
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