And Then Came Love (2007)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Richard Schenkman

Writer:

Caytha Jentis (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A Little Movie with a Big Heart

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Stitches | Teacher | Reporter | African American Man | Fall

Cast

Vanessa Williams	...	Juile
Kevin Daniels	...	Paul
Michael Boatman	...	Ted
Jeremy Gumbs	...	Jake
Eartha Kitt	...	Mona
Tommy Nelson	...	Horatio
Stephen Spinella	...	Stuart
Eileen Alana	...	Miss Missy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shashi Balooja	...	Artie
Collin Biddle	...	Maitre' D (as Colin Biddle)
Anna Camp	...	Kikki
Mike Colter	...	Yuppie Paul
Peter Conboy	...	Man on street
Andrea Darriau	...	Jittery Woman
Melissa Dye	...	Linda
Jann Ellis	...	Joan
Stephanie Garcia	...	Fashion Editor
Shelly Gibson	...	Kindergarten Mom
Michael Girts	...	Office worker
Rosie Gunther	...	Carol
Eugene Jones III	...	Paul's Brother
Paula Mandel	...	Talkative Woman at Bar
Lily Mercer	...	Francis
Greg Murtha	...	Man at book reading
Sophie Nyweide	...	Martha
Christopher Pickhardt	...	Theater patron (as Chris Pickhardt)
Ben Vereen	...	Chuck Cooper
Noah Weisberg	...	Box Office Attendant

Also Known As:

Somebody Like You (USA) (working title)
Who Needs 'Em? (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Norway:10 (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Fox Meadow Films

Trivia:

Last cinema film of Eartha Kitt.

Soundtrack:

Talk About Love

middling romantic comedy

Julie (the always appealing Vanessa Williams) is a writer and a single mother who conceived her only child through artificial insemination. When the boy begins having trouble in school, she goes in search of the anonymous sperm donor to find out if the man was really the Ivy League genius he claimed to be on his application. Naturally, meeting him leads to all sorts of personal complications and romantic entanglements, especially since Julie is already going steady with a well-meaning executive who, in spite of all his protestations to the contrary, is actually every bit as commitment-phobic as she is.

Despite a fair number of halfway decent scenes and an overall feeling of goodwill, "And Then Came Love" is simply too slick, too contrived and too insubstantial to rank as anything more than just a negligible romantic comedy. For even though the movie earns points for neither sanctifying nor demonizing its major characters, the set-up and resolution are simply too formulaic and pat to be taken very seriously. Moreover, the performances tend to be a trifle rough around the edges, except for the wonderful Eartha Kitt, who steals every scene she's in playing Julie's high-strung, intrusive, and hyper-critical mother.