Film review: Forget Paris
Rating: ** (out of 5)
Review by: Alexa Williamson
If you’re looking for a run-of-the-mill Hollywood romance with a bit of laughs and a bit of break-up-then-get-back-together tension, then look no further. Starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger, Forget Paris is about a professional league basketball referee named Mickey Gordon (Crystal) who goes to France to bury his father (a former WWII veteran) and while there meets Winger, who is the manager of the airline who loses his father’s body in transit.
In Paris, the two fall in love and the movie is about the relationship that develops between them while there and back in the US. They marry and the movie depicts their marital ‘ups and downs’ within the frame story of a conversation had by a couple they know getting married.
Acting from Winger and Crystal is passable but not extremely inspired (like the plot). Billy Crystal is still Billy Crystal as he is in many movies – ie downbeatly funny and terse. Winger is also a solid actress. The romance is very upper-middle class and one would have thought it was written in the Eighties during the Yuppy period. However, it was released in 1995.
Only recommended for Crystal/Winger fans. If you’re looking for a good romance, then check out something more along the lines of Casablanca, The English Patient or Gone with the Wind.
Further information:
Forget Paris (IMDB)
