The Marrying Man (1991)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Jerry Rees

Writer (WGA):

Neil Simon (written by)

Release Date:

5 April 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music | Romance

Tagline:

Every man has a weakness. For millionaire Charley Pearl she's blonde, beautiful and loves to say "YES"

Plot:

Rich playboy Charley Pearl meets Vicki Anderson, singer at a nightclub. But she's a gangster's-moll...

Plot Keywords:

Playboy | Nightclub | Beautiful Woman | Extramarital Affair | Reunion

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Kim Basinger	...	Vicki Anderson
Alec Baldwin	...	Charley Pearl
Robert Loggia	...	Lew Horner
Elisabeth Shue	...	Adele Horner
Armand Assante	...	Bugsy Siegel
Paul Reiser	...	Phil Golden
Fisher Stevens	...	Sammy
Peter Dobson	...	Tony
Steve Hytner	...	George
Jeremy Roberts	...	Gus
Big John Studd	...	Dante
Tony Longo	...	Sam
Tom Milanovich	...	Andy
Tim Hauser	...	Woody
Carey Eidel	...	Cab Driver

Also Known As:

Too Hot to Handle (Australia)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Brazil:18 | Finland:K-8 | Germany:12 (w) | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | USA:R | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

Stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger fell in love and married shortly after working on this project.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the beginning of the film, in the scene with the taxi cab, on close-ups the car has checkered stripe and on general view there is no checkered stripe.

Quotes:

Phil: You know what the odds are on that? Impossible to one.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck/N.E.R.D. (#29.15)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

HONEYSUCKLE ROSE

Comedy clichés, unending successions of love-at-last-sight...

Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger struggle to enliven soggy comedy about a playboy ne'er-do-well who marries and then divorces the same woman, a torchy singer and one-time gangster's moll, again and again. Rather ugly little movie, written for the screen by no less than Neil Simon, repeats its meet-cute formula until a certain bleary-eyed resentment sets in. It's not a promising idea in the cinematic sense, and director Jerry Rees can't get it off the runway (despite a lively opening). Good supporting players Armand Assante, Robert Loggia and Paul Reiser aren't much help. As for infant terribles Baldwin and Basinger: at this stage in their careers, neither was able to carry a picture. Baldwin is wiry but green and nervous; Basinger is more confident as a performer, but can find no strengths for herself in this material. ** from ****