And yet - what is the function of Pete, within the closed economy of a screenplay, except to be the hometown boy she should marry?
TAD HAMILTON MOVIE
And then the movie devotes much more screen time to Rosalee and Tad than to Rosalee and Pete - so much more that even though we know the requirements of the formula, we expect it to be broken with a marriage to Tad.
To begin with, Josh Duhamel is more appealing than Topher Grace - maybe not in life, but certainly in this movie, where he seems sincere within the limits of his ability, while the store manager always seems to have a pebble in his shoe. But it doesn't have that kind of impact, because of a crucial misjudgment in the screenplay and casting. "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" could have had a similar effect, since there is a real possibility that Rosalee will wed the slick Tad instead of the steady Pete. I was startled by how happy it made me when they got their answers right. Just today I read the charming pages where Levin and Kitty, too shy to speak their hearts, play a word game in order to find out if they have survived Vronsky with their love still intact. She and a good man named Levin have long been in love, but she's swept off her feet by the sudden admiration of a snake named Count Vronsky, and rejects Levin when in fact her fate is to be his wife, and Vronsky's love is a mirage. Within days he has purchased a house in West Virginia, taken her to dinner several times at the local diner, and made friends with her father Henry ( Gary Cole), who starts surfing and wearing a Project Greenlight T-shirt.Īs it happens, I'm reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina right now, and for some foolish reason Rosalee started to remind me of Kitty, the ingenue in the novel. What she can't anticipate is that Tad will follow her back to Fraser's Bottom, because there was something in her innocence, her freshness, her honesty, that appealed to an empty place deep inside him. That she is a virgin goes without saying. you know, it's late and I have to fly home tomorrow. Well, of course, Rosalee is ecstatic about the trip to L.A., the stretch limo, the suite at the W hotel, the expensive dinner date, and the moment when she teeters on the brink when Tad invites her to his home, and then says, gee. Then she wins a contest to have a date with Tad Hamilton ( Josh Duhamel), a Hollywood star whose agent thinks his image could use a little touch-up after a supermarket tabloid photographs him speeding, drinking, letching and littering all at the same time. He loves her, but can't bring himself to tell her so. Her manager, who she has known since they were children, is Pete Monash ( Topher Grace). She plays Rosalee Futch, a check-out clerk at the Piggly Wiggly in Fraser's Bottom, W.Va. Maybe it's something to do with Kate Bosworth's smile. Others will respond with a horse laugh, and although I cannot quarrel with them I do not share their sentiments. And because it embraces its innocence like a lucky charm, it works, for those willing to allow it. It's retro in every respect, a romantic comedy in a world so innocent that a lifetime is settled with a kiss. I could have seen it at the Princess Theater in Urbana in 1959. Here is a movie for people who haunt the aisles of the video stores searching for 1950s romances.
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