To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday Reviews

Honestly, I had never heard of this movie before but since Michelle Pfeiffer and Claire Danes were both starring, I was definitely eager to check it out. To give you a timeline, the same year, Claire Danes showed up in ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and reached stardom. Honestly, even though I think she has absolutely become a fine actress, she has never been really huge in my opinion but nowadays she seems to regain some momentum with ‘Homeland’ which seems to be a really successful TV show. Anyway, I thought she was pretty good in this but she didn’t have the main part, unfortunately. Concerning Michelle Pfeiffer, it was even worse. I mean, she was the title character, she was displayed prominently on all the promotional material and yet she was barely in the movie at all. Indeed, within the first minutes, you learn that her character has been dead for already 2 years (Bummer…). No, the main character was portrayed by Peter Gallagher. No idea who this is ? Exactly my point… Basically, he is one of those actors that you keep bumping into many movies but you can’t remember their names. Honestly, I’m glad for Gallagher that he managed to get the lead for this movie but he wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. Furthermore, the whole thing was pretty much your standard quirky indie drama filled with eccentric characters with a little dash of fantasy. Personally, I didn’t care much about the story or the characters involved and I was rather bored during the whole thing. To conclude, if you want to see something interesting starring Michelle Pfeiffer or Claire Danes, you should probably look somewhere because this movie is not really worth a look.