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Zellweger Jumps on a Runaway Train toward Obscurity

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (20)

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I’m not particularly fond of Renee Zellweger, but I can concede that — among Hollywood’s leading ladies — nobody’s as good at her at playing a female role set anywhere between 1920 and 1962 (see Leatherheads, Cinderella Man, Down with Love and Chicago). She’s got that fast-talking, brassy confidence that we like to associate — whether accurate or not — with high-society women during that period.

And though she may nail the part of Anne Devereaux in My One and Only, it still looks like a shit movie. The movie, from Richard Loncraine (Wimbeldon, Firewall) is a comedy that follows the glamorous Anne Deveraux as she embarks on a drive down the Eastern Seaboard in a search for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. It also features Chris Noth and Kevin Bacon. And it very much proves: Just because you’re good for a part, doesn’t mean the movie is good for you.

My One and Only opens on August 21st.

Overall, it looks like another box-office failure, when Zellweger can least afford it after the fairly dismal showings of New in Town, Appaloosa and Leatherheads. This, folks, is why she’s considering returning to the Bridget Jones movies.









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Comments

I guess she's reached that age at which once great (or at least decent) actresses become obsolete in Hollywood. Too bad. I actually like most of her movies.

Posted by: figgy at July 23, 2009 6:05 PM

Horrible header pic of her. Where are the squinty eyes? The puckered up mouth?

If it weren't for her odd facial mannerisms, I might actually like her, but for years I've been so distracted by them I can't get past them.

I hated what she did to the character of Ruby in Cold Mountain (one of my favorite books).

Bleh.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at July 23, 2009 6:29 PM

It's a good thing she'll bring some charm into this, since one of you poor bastards'll have to see this thing.

Posted by: George at July 23, 2009 6:31 PM

Ug. I made myself watch the trailer. She's honestly not even a good actress (disclaimer: just my opinion, obviously). AND that looks like a shit movie.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at July 23, 2009 6:33 PM

It looks like everything else about the movie would be delightful. Maybe we can insert Ashley Judd in Renee's space.

Posted by: kelsy at July 23, 2009 6:41 PM

Zellweger's movie career baffles me, she really isn't more than an overhyped soap opera type actress.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 23, 2009 7:00 PM

Crap... no, I mean, damn, the trailer actually makes me want to see this. I'm a sucker for period pieces and this one looks charming.
Maybe it's the No Whining Wednesday hangover making me feel so damned generous towards the Zegger.
I'ma have a drink now and re-embrace my inner curmudgeon.

Posted by: Spender at July 23, 2009 7:07 PM

I'm glad I'll never sleep with her. You'd never be able to tell if you were hurting her or if your dick just tasted sour.

I'll go now.

Posted by: admin at July 23, 2009 7:11 PM

Anyone else think the kid playing her son sounds just like Tom Cruise?

Posted by: Dave at July 23, 2009 7:20 PM

Thank Godtopus for you, Spender - I thought I'd be alone on this one. Maybe I just needed this trailer as an adrenaline suppressor (I just watched The Wild Bunch), maybe I'm getting softer as my years advance, maybe I'm just suffering from the vodka I've been drinking all night - but this trailer didn't look all that bad. I admit to doing a double-take when I saw Nick Stahl in the credits - I mean, that was John Connor 2.0? but this movie looks inoffensive enough, and possibly even quite fun.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at July 23, 2009 9:14 PM

Now these are very silly little boots, Jones. And this is a very silly little dress. And, um, these are, fuck me, absolutely enormous panties.

Posted by: agent bedhead at July 23, 2009 9:54 PM

Godtopus, she's like the Platonic Ideal of mannered and stylized in this. They built a movie around a cutout of a definition.

Posted by: Alice at July 23, 2009 10:53 PM

Alice, Agent B... tsk, tsk. When grown men - men who can't even view the Zegger as an object of desire - actually WANT to see a movie that doesn't involve assloads of cgi, ginormous explosions and a double dump truck full of bjoobies... well, doesn't that mean we're evolving? Even a little bit?

What? It means we're turning into fucking pansy sycophants to the female of the species?!

Ahoy, mates! Throw meat on the grill, break out the keg and throw "Die Hard" into the infernal movie machine! Avast, ye ladies and stand aside, for the pirate cruiser "Testosteroni" is sailing these dark harbors... arrrrrrrrghhhhh!

Posted by: Spender at July 24, 2009 12:43 AM

Why, yes. I am drunk again.

Posted by: Spender at July 24, 2009 12:46 AM

No fucking way I'm seeeing this piece of shPittsburgh? What's Pittsburgh doing in this? Kevin Bacon, OK, but Pittsburgh? Town can act like a motherfucker, it's got that method shit down, but diction's terrible.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 24, 2009 12:52 AM

Fuck it... the Zegger could have given Mae West a run, back in the day.
I haven't seen this movie and can't give PickleFace a completely positive comment but based on the trailer, I say... Yea.

Posted by: Spender at July 24, 2009 2:46 AM

yes! she's awesome, I mean, at her age, she's still attractive to many people! you don't know how h ot models and sex y folks on ___Tallloving Co m___ go crazy about her act!! she's like kinda role model to many people there!!
Cool Guys!!!

Posted by: jack at July 24, 2009 7:43 AM

I'm all good with Zelwegger, and I too will no doubt be watching this film, albeit on DVD.
Any which way, it has to be better than The Proposal, which I saw by accident the other night and which was just goddam awful.

Posted by: missh at July 24, 2009 9:40 AM

Wow, either they made her up to look older or she's really starting to show her age in the facial region.

Posted by: Mandy at July 24, 2009 1:33 PM

Did I spy Calamity Jane (Robin somebody) on that farm? Whee!

In 10 years Amy Adams will knock this kind of role out of the park. Where is Ashley Judd these days?

Posted by: amanda47 at July 24, 2009 3:24 PM