Jude Law began his international screen career rather impressively with terrific performances in films like Wilde and Gattaca. With his latest effort Music From Another Room he shows he`s not immune to lesser material. He stars as Danny who, as an adult finds himself in the same town in America he lived as a boy, where as a five year old he helped deliver the baby Anna. He promised to marry her then and now when he accidentally meets up with her he`s determined to fulfill that promise. Anna, played as an adult by Gretchen Moll is not interested, not at all. She`s too involved with her fiance and with her eccentric family, mother Brenda Blethyn and sisters, ardent feminist Martha Plimpton, and the blind Jennifer Tilley, not to mention her academic father and philandering brother.Writer/director Charlie Peters has been responsible as a writer for some rather indifferent offerings over the years, like Jungle2Jungle, 3 Men and a Little Lady and My Father the Hero. This is only the second film he`s directed. And the adjective indifferent seems once again appropriate. Music From Another Room has a silly premise, it`s cliched and predictable with some rather uninteresting and even unlikeable characters. And what does that pretentious title mean?
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