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Release Date:
19 May 1995 (USA)
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A comedy about love... after marriage.
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Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an...
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Restaurant
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Traffic Jam
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1 win
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(4 articles)
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(From The Flickcast. 5 October 2009, 8:15 AM, PDT)
Rise 'n' Shine: Should George Clooney Forget Paris?
(From E! Online. 5 January 2009, 7:10 AM, PST)
(From The Flickcast. 5 October 2009, 8:15 AM, PDT)
Rise 'n' Shine: Should George Clooney Forget Paris?
(From E! Online. 5 January 2009, 7:10 AM, PST)
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It's very clear, their love is here to stay
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Billy Crystal | ... | Mickey Gordon |
 | Debra Winger | ... | Ellen Andrews Gordon |
 | Joe Mantegna | ... | Andy |
 | Cynthia Stevenson | ... | Liz |
 | Richard Masur | ... | Craig |
| Julie Kavner | ... | Lucy |
| William Hickey | ... | Arthur |
| Robert Costanzo | ... | Waiter |
 | John Spencer | ... | Jack |
 | Tom Wright | ... | Tommy |
| Cathy Moriarty | ... | Lois |
 | Johnny Williams | ... | Lou |
| Marv Albert | ... | Himself |
| Bill Walton | ... | Himself |
 | Charles Barkley | ... | Himself |
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Rated PG-13 for language, including some sex-related dialogue.
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101 min
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Iceland:L |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #33769) |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:S |
Germany:6 (bw) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:12 |
Australia:M
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Anachronisms: In the Pistons/Lakers game when Mickey has his meltdown, the court is clearly the Phoenix Suns' court. The floor is purple instead of the Pistons' blue, and you can see the word America of "America West Arena" when he throws out Isiah Thomas.
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Referenced in "Seinfeld: The Calzone (#7.19)" (1996)
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Just One Of Those Things
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"Forget Paris" is a feel-good romantic comedy about the on again off again relationship between Mickey (Billy Crystal, who also directed, produced and was one of the writers), an NBA referee, and Ellen (Debra Winger), a customer relations trouble shooter for an airline.
Friends of sports writer Andy (Joe Mantegna) are gathering at a restaurant to be introduced to Liz (Cynthia Stevenson) before their wedding. Liz comments that how she and Andy met must be the oddest ever (a fax had one digit off in the fax number and went to Andy by mistake). Andy says no, how Mickey met Ellen is the weirdest. They met because she helped him bury his father. That starts the friends telling the story of Mickey and Ellen.
Some critics consider this way of telling the story and the plot stale and schmaltzy; but it is so well done that I could care less.
The film genre is romantic comedy; this film's strength is the comedy part of that term. I could give examples but comedy is best when the punchline (or its visual equivalent) is unexpected. Let me just say that one of my favorite bits starts with the focus on an organist going through the motions of preparing to play serious music.
Billy Crystal is known to be a serious basketball fan and in part the film is like a documentary about refereeing NBA games, with a huge number of basketball stars playing themselves. I was bemused at the end of the credits when the standard disclaimer came up saying that all the characters and names in the film were fictitious. Not hardly in this film.
I should mention that Cynthia Stevenson's hysterically tearful performance as Liz listening to Mickey's and Ellen's highs and lows was great.
I also loved the sound track. Ella Fitzgerald singing "April in Paris" is so great; also, Billy Holiday doing the opening "Our Love Is Here To Stay." David Sanborn's saxophone version of the "Star Spangled Banner" is also particularly great.
My one quibble is that I found Debra Winger's voice very sexy in 1982's "Officer and a Gentleman" and she didn't sound the same in 1995's "Forget Paris." I probably don't sound the same as I did 13 years ago either.