Customer Reviews

Til There Was You [VHS]

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

This is a sweet film about "missed chances" and "lost moments" and ponders the question if the one you were meant to be with was right in front of you or just down the street. Years of near misses, cusps of time, and lost opportunities build until Gwen and Nick meet. The time leading up to their final meeting is hilarious and you just want him or her to make the right turn so they see each other for once!

Two girlfriends of mine married men who they had been missing for years at parties, mutual events, coffee shops, you name it! They were often in the same place at the same time but just didn't meet. Thank God they did and now enjoy happy marriages. I had a similar situation with someone who has lived or worked down the street from me three times over ten years, patrolled a building I used to work in, and as a teenager worked at a place I hung out at all the time at 17 and 18. Ours was perpetual bad timing because by the time we meet it was too late for anything, but it did beg the question to me if I had been missing my soul mate so long it was impossible now.

For those of you who love happy endings .... this is one to see.

Gwen and Nick spend their whole lives just missing eachother.

They bump into each other (literally) when they were about 6 years old and over the next 20 years they just miss meeting eachother. There are so many times that they might of seen each other if only that by the time that they actually do meet each other going for a cigarette at a meeting for people to try to stop smoking that you want to say "finally."

All in all though it is a very good movie and Dylan McDermott and Jeanne Tripplehorn are both excellent as the older Nick and Gwen and Sarah Jessica Parker is also very good as Nicks girlfriend Francesca a washed up former television star whom everybody thinks is dead.

I don't "get" it....previous reviewers panned this movie. I thought it was touching, inspiring, tough & honest. Great acting! Fabulous script! Superb directing! Jaded reviewers. I can tell you that it moved me to tears. Shame on you who are so hard, so jaded, so shallow, that you just couldn't get it (up?)!!! What's up w/you way down people?

I absolutely love this movie. This is for those times we all have. When we get lost and can't find a direction. When we wonder if we're really meant to be happy, and to be in love. This movie is so wonderful because it makes me believe that somehow everything is connected. Everyone is perfectly put into some great plan and all our lives are intertwined. It gives me hope for myself and everyone else. This is definately a movie worth at least renting. Yeah, it's kind of a chick flick. But it really is incredible.

A very sweet, and very witty romantic comedy but no, not a remake of Alan Rudolph's "Made in Heaven." Very good performances and a smart script make this a very refreshing watch.

This is a really great movie which is hard to find these days.
Yes, it's a "chick flick", but it doesn't have the sex, nudity and unneeded scenes in alot of movies out there.
It's a classic romance but it also makes us think about life in the big picture and how everything relates to everything else in the world.

Stories intertwine through our lives, around life events, past our passions, and a few stories themselves remind us of this. "'Til There Was You" makes this self-conscious storytelling into a delightful journey.

Two journeys, in fact, because it takes the title literally. Two fascinating people (writer Jeanne Tripplehorn, architect Dylan McDermott) are shown growing up and constantly seeking passion and connection in their lives, but finding no way to hold on to either. When a bit of serendipity comes along, they both are transformed: An historic and almost otherworldly Los Angeles apartment house shows magic and belonging to her, substance and commitment to him. The ironies lie in her defending it in anonymous letters, his falling in love with the letters while designing the building's replacement, the building being owned by his lover, whose book is being ghostwritten by ... but you may get the idea. The writer and the architect are woven together by ties and resonances they cannot imagine, and yet they've never even (formally) met.

It's a rich, intricate, hilarious, and wry screenplay, written by a principal writer of "thirtysomething" and writer/creator of "My So-Called Life." The acting is touching and passionate, especially when one realizes that it's two connecting love stories -- about learning to love and respect yourself, before you can find the serendipities of life. This isn't a conventional romantic comedy or drama. The couple isn't what is important here. The individuals are.

In "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand wrote: "To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I.'" These characters don't know, at first, but they're open to life, and they find out, playing with and against friends, neighbors, and lovers. Their journey is what will enthrall you. The ending almost doesn't matter.

Buy this and give it your full attention. You will be rewarded!

I am a little surprised at the one star ratings. I love movies that complete a circle, those are rare and this is one of those. This was a really good movie. If you like something a little different from the typical romantic comedy, this is a good choice. It has doses of reality in it and maybe that is what some folks did not like. I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. The main characters flaws give you more to identify with than some other romantic comedies. In particular, the soundtrack is perfection. Sometimes I just leave the credits on repeat to listen to the music. It is highly enjoyable.

I have seen this movie numerous times and find it to be very romantic and a very good example of sattire. It is funny, witty and has a happy ending. I also really identified with Gwen. Her love of writing and her search for true love and not to mention her innocence. A character I can identify with.

Contrary to the reviews given above, this movie was very enjoyable. Gwen's search for "the right one" that she knows is out there was the thread that you kept in mind throughout the story. And watching Nick self-destruct his relationships showed the emptiness he felt inside that he wanted someone to fill. It was all in all a great romantic date film.