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New this week: John McKay’s “Crush” begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it’s most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse. Left in the lurch are three skillful actresses--Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton and Anna Chancellor--as a trio of fortysomething single women in England who gather nearly every weekend to commiserate with each other over their lucklessness in love and sex. What a shame McKay went for melodrama instead of continuing with an amusing yet also realistic account of how a somewhat older woman and a younger man cope with the age difference, which would be inconsequential were the man the older member of the couple.
Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Showtime
3. The New Guy
4. Collateral Damage
5. Dragonfly
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Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. Showtime
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The New Guy
4. In the Bedroom
5. Collateral Damage
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