Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 119
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 105
It gets a certain amount of mileage out of the inherent likability of its stars, but with an unfunny script and a lack of onscreen chemistry, Did You Hear About the Morgans? falls flat.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 27
It gets a certain amount of mileage out of the inherent likability of its stars, but with an unfunny script and a lack of onscreen chemistry, Did You Hear About the Morgans? falls flat.
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Movie Info
A bickering New York couple on the verge of divorce is placed in the Witness Protection Program and relocated to Wyoming after witnessing a murder. Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) have all the money a couple could want -- it's love they're running short on. Upon witnessing a contract killing and being targeted by the triggerman, the couple find themselves at the mercy of the feds, who hastily send them packing for an extended stay in the Rockies. Could a peaceful life
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Cast
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Hugh Grant
Paul Morgan -
Sarah Jessica Parker
Meryl Morgan -
Sam Elliott
Clay Wheeler -
Mary Steenburgen
Emma Wheeler -
Elisabeth Moss
Jackie Drake -
Michael Kelly
Vincent -
Wilford Brimley
Earl Granger -
Jesse Liebman
Adam Feller -
David Call
Doc D. Simmons -
Kim Shaw
Nurse Kelly -
Seth Gilliam
U.S. Marshal Lasky -
Beth Fowler
Ma Simmons -
Vincenzo Amato
Girard Rabelais -
Natalia Klimas
Monique Rabelais -
Sandor Tecsy
Anton Forenski -
Dana Ivey
Trish Pinger -
Gracie Bea Lawrence
Lucy Granger -
Kevin Brown
U.S. Marshal Henderson -
Steven Boyer
U.S. Marshal Ferber -
Sharon Wilkins
U.S. Marshal King -
Christopher Atwood
U.S. Marshal at Rodeo -
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All Critics (120) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (105) | DVD (5)
This ultra-mild frolic follows the 'fish-out-of-water' comedy formula so closely its lack of surprise is almost, well, surprising.
Top CriticOne of those cookie-cutter romantic comedies in which fish out of water ("Which one's skim?" Parker asks while milking cows) learn to swim together again.
The movie is like a car wreck in which no one is injured but the onlookers.
There's a scene where Hugh Grant confronts a grizzly bear and I've never rooted so hard for a predatory mammal.
The cast is in such fine form that everything seems funny.
While it fails on nearly every conceivable level, as a textbook case in everything contemptible in the studio system, Did You Hear About the Morgans? is as good as it gets.
I wish I could answer 'no' to the movie's title question.
Despite a breezy premise, this rom-com displays lazy filmmaking at almost every level of the production
To end my assessment on the level of the film's writing, you'll wish you never heard about the Morgans. (Ha ha ha)
The mediocre material gets a boost from a hardworking Grant, who uses his trademark bumbling formality to deliver dry commentary and wring out the most laughs possible.
Potro%u0161eni Hugh Grant i antipati%u010Dna izvedba S.J. Parker u komediji koja je trebala biti slasher horror
You've seen it before, and you'll see it again. In one way or another 'Did You Hear About the Morgans?' is the same old fish-out-of-water story that's been put to film dozens of times.
Hugh, what a stinker! Mediocre sit-com humour doesn't help an unoriginal premise and a star pairing with less believable chemistry than a pebble and another slightly smaller pebble. Where's a straight-to-video distributor when you need one?
In a silly way, it is entertaining, the mismatch is actually weirdly plausible, and try as I might, I couldn't be grumpy about it.
Parker is better, injecting a note of rawness and authenticity into an otherwise misconceived subplot about adoption. Even she can't fake any curiosity in, yet alone sexual chemistry with, Grant.
The trouble with his new film, though, is not its lack of grit, but its lack of ambition and originality. It's one of those films that you've seen before - even before you've seen it.
Perhaps this new decade could be the one in which female audiences are treated as something other than a dumping ground for the lazy, complacent idiocy that has passed for chick flicks of late.
The jokes come thin and slow, the thrills are non-existent.
The cinematic equivalent of throwing buckets of money at a house with no foundations. The worst thing is, and sadly for cinema, this house shows no sign of falling down any time soon.
A hellish rom-com bereft of chuckles and charm. A good screwball comedy should have laughs, heart, sexiness, rapid-fire banter and, most importantly, chemistry between its two leads - Did You Hear About The Morgans? has not one of these things.
Considering how rarely Grant works, you'd expect genuine excellence in the scripts he picks. We'd expected more than this merely serviceable, not very believable Hollywood romcom.
We've seen this a hundred times before...only better.
Parker and Grant sleepwalk their way through a flatline comedy in which old jokes can be seen coming a mile away.
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Foreign Titles
- Haben Sie das von den Morgans gehört? (DE)
- Où sont passés les Morgan ? (FR)
