Cinematherapy for Lovers: The Girl's Guide to Finding True Love One Movie at a Time [Paperback]

Nancy Peske (Author), Beverly West (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003

Movies are more than entertainment...
They’re couples therapy!

If you’ve ever wondered how to meet Mr. Right, boot Mr. Wrong, inspire Mr. Reluctant to propose, or ignite youthful passion in a middle-aged romance, then we’ve got some good news for you.

The help you need is no farther away than your remote control. Sink into your sofa and discover the healing power of movies. From the bestselling duo who brought you Cinematherapy, Advanced Cinematherapy, and Bibliotherapy comes Cinematherapy for Lovers, a video guide guaranteed to help you find the perfect movie prescription to cure all your relationship woes.

Trouble in your couple’s paradise? Watch a Rediscovering Your Dream movie like Pollock and rise above.

Looking for the key to your guy’s psyche? Crack the code with an Understanding Your Man movie like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and unlock the secrets of your own international man of mystery!

Ready to hear those magic words but your summer lover is terminally tongue-tied? Loosen his lips with a Hook, Line, and Sinker movie like All That Heaven Allows, then find the shortcut to his heart through his stomach with Bev’s Culinarytherapy recipe for meat loaf and mashed potatoes just like Mom used to make, and seal the deal.

Feeling like a solo singer in a world full of duets? Discover a new happily-ever-after with a Make Your Own Music movie like Ghost World.

Jam-packed with over 150 new reviews of classic and contemporary movies--and warnings about Happily Never After love stories that are recipes for relationship disasters--Cinematherapy for Lovers gives you the tools you’ll need to become your own couple’s cinematherapist.

PLUS: Nancy’s Momentous Minutiae, Best Bodice-Ripping Lines, I Do I Do and Elvis Too, Always a Bridesmaid Never a Bride movies, Bods We Don’t Buy, the Shirley MacLaine Trilogy of Terror, Bev’s Culinarytherapy, and much, much more...

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Movies are more than entertainment...
They?re couples therapy!

If you?ve ever wondered how to meet Mr. Right, boot Mr. Wrong, inspire Mr. Reluctant to propose, or ignite youthful passion in a middle-aged romance, then we?ve got some good news for you.

The help you need is no farther away than your remote control. Sink into your sofa and discover the healing power of movies. From the bestselling duo who brought you Cinematherapy, Advanced Cinematherapy, and Bibliotherapy comes Cinematherapy for Lovers, a video guide guaranteed to help you find the perfect movie prescription to cure all your relationship woes.

Trouble in your couple?s paradise? Watch a Rediscovering Your Dream movie like Pollock and rise above.

Looking for the key to your guy?s psyche? Crack the code with an Understanding Your Man movie like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and unlock the secrets of your own international man of mystery!

Ready to hear those magic words but your summer lover is terminally tongue-tied? Loosen his lips with a Hook, Line, and Sinker movie like All That Heaven Allows, then find the shortcut to his heart through his stomach with Bev?s Culinarytherapy recipe for meat loaf and mashed potatoes just like Mom used to make, and seal the deal.

Feeling like a solo singer in a world full of duets? Discover a new happily-ever-after with a Make Your Own Music movie like Ghost World.

Jam-packed with over 150 new reviews of classic and contemporary movies--and warnings about Happily Never After love stories that are recipes for relationship disasters--Cinematherapy for Lovers gives you the tools you?ll need to become your own couple?s cinematherapist.

PLUS: Nancy?s Momentous Minutiae, Best Bodice-Ripping Lines, I Do I Do and Elvis Too, Always a Bridesmaid Never a Bride movies, Bods We Don?t Buy, the Shirley MacLaine Trilogy of Terror, Bev?s Culinarytherapy, and much, much more...

About the Author

Nancy Peske and Beverly West are best friends, identical cousins, and the coauthors of Advanced Cinematherapy: The Girl’s Guide to Finding Happiness One Movie at a Time, Cinematherapy: The Girl’s Guide to Movies for Every Mood, and Bibliotherapy: The Girl’s Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives. They live in New York City.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Delta (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440509270
• ISBN-13: 978-0440509271
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,245,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Guys Like to Watch Movies with Girls, too..., April 5, 2004

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CHRISTOPHER SIMMONS - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cinematherapy for Lovers: The Girl's Guide to Finding True Love One Movie at a Time (Paperback)

I totally disagree with the negative review posted previously. I think movie reviews are entirely subjective (thus the long-standing success of Ebert and Etc.). If everybody thought the same, there wouldn't be a Shrek sequel. Personally, I thought Rear Window was one of the more romantic Hitchcock films, and the restored version is a superb suspensful movie and the romantic tension between James Stewart and Grace Kelly is simply amazing (she passed up "On the Waterfront" to do Rear Window). And yes, the Jay & Silent Bob duo (Kevin Smith, et al) were good in Dogma, but I couldn't make it through "JB...strikes back." So, like all books which provide subjective guidelines for movies (or other media), you will either "jibe" with what the editor/author, reviewer/blogger, have to say, or you won't. True film lovers will usually give any movie a chance (well, maybe not the computer-animated Barbie direct-to-dvd stuff), and that can be an interesting way for couples to find a middle ground and "connect" to different ways of thinking beyond the traditional date night thriller or stab-fest. Movies which couples might not see at the theatre can be more suitable for home viewing on a comfy couch, and thus the value of books like Cinematherapy.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the others, January 12, 2010

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The Girl Who Loved Books (Hamilton, ONT, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cinematherapy for Lovers: The Girl's Guide to Finding True Love One Movie at a Time (Paperback)

If you like the other Cinematherapy books, you MIGHT like this one.

Some of the suggestions in this book seem bizarre; Austin Powers as an example of a great guy? Um, yeah.

4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cinematherapy for Losers, June 3, 2003

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Rebecca M. Henely (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinematherapy for Lovers: The Girl's Guide to Finding True Love One Movie at a Time (Paperback)

When I saw this book had recommendations such as "The Shipping News" and "I'm the One that I Want" I picked it up, hoping that this book could open my eyes to good female-oriented movies. Unfortunately, the book's reviews are nothing short of insulting. Ausin Powers 2 is a good movie for women because it assures us that guys are really good people? What Dreams May Come is a good movie for making your guy realize how sad he'll be when you're gone (emotional blackmail, anyone?)? Rear Window is a romantic movie? What the heck? And I've read their assessment of Moulin Rouge! about eighteen times and I still don't see how the movie is supposed to be sexist.

Also, any book that disses Jay and Silent Bob gets my goat. And then they have the nerve to recommend Stepmom! Yuck.

All in all, this book is nothing but a list horrible reviews for good and bad movies. Don't waste your money and buy another book of recommendations. Hopefully one that recommends Chasing Amy.

P.S. My issue isn't these women's opinions, it's the way they present them. I'd rather have genuine film reviews than "agenda-driven" reviews. That's all you're going to get here.