Product Details

• Actors: Elizabeth Reaser, Gretchen Mol, Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson, Tina Benko
• Directors: Maria Maggenti
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: July 3, 2007
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000N2H8XC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,922 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Puccini for Beginners" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Allegra loves her girlfriend samantha but cant commit. When samantha leaves her allegra rebounds with handsome professor phillip as well as with the beautiful recently single grace. Allegra juggles secret relationships with both never suspecting that phillip and grace have a connection of their own. Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 07/03/2007 Run time: 82 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mildly entertaining, July 17, 2007

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A. Kennedy (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini for Beginners (DVD)

I was really looking forward to the release of this film on dvd. I expected great things from it's maker. I was pretty disappointed when I finally got to see it. The film focuses mainly on the 'straight' relationship and none of the characters really have any chemistry. The story was kind of cute and watchable enough but it only really just touched the surface of things. It pretty much played it safe. I guess that's what you have to do if you wanna break in to the mainstream with these kind of subject matters.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute and complex, yet irritating, July 15, 2007

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Dennis! (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini for Beginners (DVD)

SPOILERS AHEAD.

This movie was kinda cute and charming. Fun for a bit of mindless entertainment -- you can't allow yourself to get too focused on the fact that in the city of 8 million people this one chick happens to find herself in a room with her boyfriend, her girlfriend who is also the boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, and her ex-girlfriend at the same time.

The movie would have more endearing if I liked Allegra more. As it was, though, the movie was intended to be a chronicling of her growth, and that pretty much means she has little redeeming qualities in the first instance. And I found it very hard to care about her character when, after finding out that the two people she's "dating" (term used loosely) are an ex-couple and after being expressly advised by her best friends to dump them both, she apparently makes little to no attempt to do so -- as if she WANTED to get busted anyway.

I'm giving this movie 3 stars because I enjoy the acting talent of Mol and Kirk... but Allegra's character leaves a lot to be desired, and while she's meant to be "complex," she's also really kind of a jerk.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking At Times, December 24, 2007

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Jeff Marzano (Essex Junction, VT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini for Beginners (DVD)

I caught this movie on the Logo channel so I don't have the dvd but I figured I'd write a review anyway.

To me it's one of those movies that could never happen in quite this way in real life but it does raise issues that are real.

The main character hooks up with two people who are having problems in their relationships not knowing that their relationship is with each other.

I guess one lesson is if someone just wants to be 'the other person' this may be what they become which is what happens initially.

But ultimately she lucks out and causes someone else to become the other person and she becomes the right person which is what she so desperately wanted.

I guess the main point is how do people find that other person that is right for them. This is a very deep philosophical question. Even a spiritual question.

Perhaps the various experiences that these people went through was a necessary part of that discovery for them.

I think movies like this can be educational if they make people think about the implications, complexities, and possible outcomes of getting involved in intimate relationships. She perhaps underestimated the feelings that her two friends still had for each other.

The two main female characters in this movie are bisexual but this is not a graphic movie. At least not the version I saw on tv.

Jeff Marzano

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