Touch of Pink (2003)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 39
Kyle MacLachlan does a very good imitation Cary Grant in this forced and contrived tale.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 13
Kyle MacLachlan does a very good imitation Cary Grant in this forced and contrived tale.
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Canadian writer/director Ian Iqbal Rashid makes his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Touch of Pink. Jimi Mistry plays Alim, an young gay Ismali-Canadian living in a fashionable section of London. He has an active fantasy life involving Kyle MacLachlan, who appears as the charming ghost of Cary Grant. Alim also has an active social life in the real world with his actual boyfriend Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried). His life of leisure is interrupted when his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew)
Cast
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Jimi Mistry
Alim -
Kyle MacLachlan
Cary Grant -
Kristen Holden-Reid
Giles -
Suleka Mathew
Nura -
Brian George
Hassan -
Veena Sood
Aunt Dolly -
Raoul Bhaneja
Khaled -
Liisa Repo-Martell
Delia -
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (39) | DVD (7)
There are two crucial bits of miscasting, one bad, one good, both distracting.
Top CriticIts plot is hackneyed and banal.
An uncomfortable jumble of Harvey, Bend It Like Beckham and The Birdcage.
Much of the problem with Touch of Pink rests with Mistry, whose nice guy appeal registers even less than it did in his previous starring vehicles, The Guru and The Mystic Masseur.
MacLachlan's strong jaw line and his valiant attempt to act so very Cary aren't enough to save this film.
As much as it aspires to mimic the charm of old Cary Grant pictures, Touch of Pink is hardly worthy of comparison to even the least of Grant's films.
A mildly amusing gay comedy, with the only novel point of Cary Grant serving as a spiritual mentor; the rest is formula.
...more self-congratulatory than genuinely edgy, and the best reason to see it is MacLachlan's tidy impersonation.
The spirit of Cary Grant is a silly but welcome addition to an already chock-full plot plate.
[It's] a blend of trite plot points and obnoxious characters, held together by the notion that you should be watching something else instead.
Hollywood meets Bollywood in this clever and charmingly inclusive homage to Doris Day, Cary Grant, and 1950s bedroom farces.
Rashid struggles with tone and pacing ... but his characters are so vivid and the romance so sweet that we forgive him.
A cute, ineffectual film that breaks absolutely no new ground but enjoys itself as it skips down the familiar paths.
Kyle MacLachlan's robust impersonation of Cary Grant is good for a laugh, but its overuse is just one of the crimes against this joyless cross-cultural gay romance.
A too-familiar tale.
A gay romantic comedy so coyly inoffensive that it becomes offensive in its inoffensiveness.
Audience Reviews for Touch of Pink
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- Nura: I'm not completely backward. I know about men with men. I subscribe to Reader's Digest.
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- Alim: Can you believe it? She still keeps plastic on the furniture.
- Cary Grant: It keeps the evil fresh.
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- Nura: My life is just a soiled, tattered tissue tossed into the toilet of life.
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- Alim: It's my life.
- Nura: Yes, but I gave it to you.
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- Giles: I thought the eggs were for everybody.
- Nura: You people always do. Eggs, India, Africa, Middle East!
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- Nura: It was very nice meeting you both. I hope we meet again one day, when there isn't a knife plunged in my heart.
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