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: 20
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 12
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)
R, 1 hr. 32 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Gay & Lesbian, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Jul 16, 2004 Wide
Jan 11, 2005
$0.2M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (67) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (39) | DVD (7)
There are two crucial bits of miscasting, one bad, one good, both distracting.
Its 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.
The movie pretty much collapses upon the fulcrum of Kyle MacLachlan's Cary Grant.
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.
Enjoyable time filler, Sue Mathew is great fun as the mother.
August 13, 2007
Super Reviewer
What do you get when you're gay AND you come from a culture that ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT ALLOW IT?!?!? You create an imaginary friend who's a lot like a classic movie star from Hollywood's golden age so that he may give you advice as to what to do. This movie is soooo cute. It's basically the same storyline as Bend It Like
July 19, 2006Super Reviewer
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