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Meg ryan photos actress meg ryan attends the after party for serious moonlight during the 2009 tribeca film festival at tenjune on april 25, 2009 in new york city. He has planned to spend some romantic time at his and louises summer house with sara before they go to paris together. Serious moonlight won best film at the 2009 orlando film festival. Curb your enthusiasm meg ryan 2009 serious moonlight louise 2009 the women mary haines 2008. Inept scenario, never thought much of meg ryan but why a talented actor like timothy hutton would accept to play in such a lemon is beyond me. Serious moonlight gives new meaning to the phrase, ball and chain. Serious moonlight concerns the marital difficulties of timothy hutton and meg ryan. She is of ruthenian, polish, irish, and german ancestry hyra is a ruthenian surname, and ryan is her maternal grandmothers. Several key crew members for serious moonlight including composer andrew hollander, casting directors sunday boling and meg morman, costume designer ariyela waldcohain, and line producer brigitte. Serious moonlight 2010 hines cheryl on dvd with meg ryan 9e.

Louise, the highpowered attorney played by meg ryan comes home one day early and finds this note. Monica film center santa monica monica film center santa monica. Oct 16, 2009 meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long star in cheryl hines feature directorial debut serious moonlight, a romcom about a manhattan lawyer, louise ryan, whose husband hutton. However, it does not give new meaning to romantic comedies. No screen performance since holly hunters oscarwinning portrayal of the mute woman in the piano has seemed harder to pull off than meg ryan s louise in serious moonlight, the woefully farfetched comedy penned by late indie darling adrienne shelly and directed by curb your enthusiasms cheryl hines. I am not a fan of meg ryan but i have to admit that here she gives a real profound performance even daring to show real sadness at the loss of what has been, the. When highpowered attorney louise meg ryan learns that her husband, ian timothy hutton, plans to leave her after years of marriage to run off with his twentysomething girlfriend, sara kristen.

When highpowered attorney louise meg ryan learns that her husband, ian timothy hutton, plans to leave her after years of marriage to run off with his twenty something girlfriend, sara kristen bell, she impulsively decides to take drastic action. Newhall under construction newhall under construction. A highpowered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet. Cheryl hines talks directing meg ryan in serious moonlight. Meg ryan gets together with her french kiss boyfriend, timothy hutton. Now playing in new york at the village east and on cable on demand. Serious moonlight jumbles a comic tone with tragic circumstances and the result is confused performances from its stars. Serious moonlight 2009 stream and watch online moviefone. Louise meg ryan, a successful lawyer, wants to jumpstart her failing marriage to ian timothy hutton.

Timothy hutton is ducttaped to the potty, and meg ryan is just plain potty in this posthumously produced adrienne shelly script directed by first. Serious moonlight from meg ryans best rom com roles e. Serious moonlight stars meg ryan and cheryl hines from a screenplay by waitress scribe adrienne shelly. Meg ryan learns her husband timothy hutton is leaving her for another woman and takes him captive, refusing to free him until he admits he still loves her. Though the result is halfbaked, the film does take chances, particularly when it comes to meg ryan, here playing a woman who is intent on killing the man she has ducttaped to a chair. H opefully serious moonlight will not become meg ryan s trog. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, derek carter, bill parks, kimberlee peterson, nathan dean.

Unfortunately ian is not expecting louise, rather his much younger girlfriend kristen bell. Serious moonlight 2009 serious moonlight 2009 user. Rent serious moonlight 2009 on dvd and bluray netflix. Photos courtesy of magnolia picturesmeg ryan and timothy hutton are shown in a scene from serious moonlight. Love triangle bound by tape and talk the new york times. Serious moonlight is a 2009 american black comedy film directed by cheryl hines and starring meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long. He has fallen in love with a younger woman kristin bell and is planning to leave ryan for her. In 2009, ryan starred alongside kristen bell and justin long in the independent comedy film serious moonlight. Directed by cheryl hines, serious moonlight is a 2009 black comedy film. A lessthanfrothy domestic showdown starring meg ryan and. Meg ryan plays louise a successful lawyer who comes home early to her husband ian timothy hutton to surprise him only to discover that the house is decorated.

One year after starring as a spurned wife in the disappointing remake of the women, shes the lead in serious. Aug 12, 2010 serious moonlight starring timothy hutton, meg ryan, justin long and kristen bell. Since much of it is set in a bathroom in which the lead characters louise ms. In 1986, she played carole bradshaw in the topgrossing film top gun, and the. Meg ryan lying unconscious on the ground of a bathroom in a black dress as a guy with a bandana over his face plays with her breasts and feels up her while squeezing them all as another guy sits tied to a toilet and gets angry with him. First, her husband of years, ian timothy hutton, tells her that hes leaving her for a younger woman kristen bell. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, derek carter, bill parks, kimberlee peterson.

Serious moonlight is a film directed by cheryl hines with meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long, year. Meg ryan salutes tom hanks at afi life achievement award duration. Not merely a war of the sexes, serious moonlight is a story of a war of the wills as ian tries to talk his way out of the situation. To be brutally honest, i think winning had more to do with leads meg ryan and timothy hutton. Small indie that has all the ingredients of a typical hollywood meg ryan romantic comedy from the 1990s, including meg ryan, but lacks the spark of the best of her genre. Though the result is halfbaked, the film does take chances, particularly when it comes to meg ryan, here playing a woman who is intent on killing the man she has ducttaped to a chair her husband. Meg ryan at the premiere of serious moonlight in 2009. At best, it is a mildly amusing movie that a good cast can do. Oct 16, 2009 meg ryan has officially entered the first wives club chapter of her career. Louise meg ryan, a highpowered manhattan lawyer, is touched when she arrives for the weekend to her familys upstate getaway to find it strewn with rose petals by her husband of years, ian timothy hutton. Meg ryan is an american actress, director, and producer who gained recognition on the longrunning cbs soap opera as the world turns 198284. Serious moonlight 2009 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Serious moonlight 2009 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, justin long, kristen bell director.

Starring meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long. Mar 09, 2010 superstar meg ryan ist endlich zuruck. Watch serious moonlight 2019 online free trial the. Meg ryan meg ryan photos serious moonlight after party. She is attached to direct a movie for tnt based on the william saroyan book, the human comedy.

As louise, a typea careerist who responds to the sheepish adultery confession of flakey husband ian timothy hutton by knocking him out cold and ducttaping him to a chair for some adhoc marital. Meg ryan and timothy hutton star yet again in a romantic comedy, not called french kiss but serious moonlight. In fact, hes actually in the process of writing louise a letter explaining his. It was released by magnolia pictures on 4 december 2009. When louise, a highpowered chicago attorney meg ryan, discovers that her husband ian timothy hutton is about to. Dec 01, 2009 timothy hutton is ducttaped to the potty, and meg ryan is just plain potty in this posthumously produced adrienne shelly script directed by firsttimer cheryl hines who starred in shellys. Playing a highpowered yuppie lawyer whose callow husband ian timothy hutton plans to leave. Serious moonlight is a movie starring meg ryan, timothy hutton, and kristen bell. Meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long star in cheryl hines feature directorial debut serious moonlight, a romcom about a manhattan lawyer, louise ryan. The quality of the people involved helps elevate it to be the dark ok, black. Ian timothy hutton is cheating on louise his wife of years with the younger sara kristen bell. Her other television credits include one of the boys 1982 and captain planet and the planeteers 199091. Serious moonlight takes apart a single day in a year marriage that is in serious trouble.

She tapes him to a toilet this time, instead of letting him go to paris. A relationship ending is like a death just two people know about. The story is one of louise meg ryan and ian timothy hutton, an unhappily married couple who have sort of an odd serious moonlight is not what i expected at all, in both. Apr 30, 2009 short interview tribeca film festival.

Serious moonlight was scripted by the late adrienne shelly. Blondhaired, blueeyed with an effervescent personality, meg ryan was born margaret mary emily hyra in fairfield, connecticut, to susan duggan, an english teacher and onetime actress, and harry hyra, a math teacher. Meg ryan and timothy hutton here billed as tim play a longmarried couple whose union is on the verge of collapse, although only he knows it. Released december 4th, 2009, serious moonlight stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 24 min, and received a score of 36 out of 100. Louise ryan and ian make up our 40ish crisis couple louise just doesnt know about the. Serious moonlight after she arrives at her country home for a romantic weekend getaway, things dont go exactly as planned for highpowered manhattan lawyer louise meg ryan. Serious moonlight 2010 hines cheryl on dvd with meg ryan. With meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, justin long. In this story of a marriage on the skids between louise meg ryan, a highpowered manhattan attorney, and her husband of thirteen years, ian timothy hutton, a strange and dark episode unfolds and halts ians plans to run away with his girlfriend sarah kristen bell. Okay, it sounds ridiculous, but the premise has potential until a wildeyed ryan takes serious moonlight from a passionate romance to pure horror. Rent serious moonlight 2009 starring meg ryan and timothy hutton on dvd and bluray. Serious moonlight marks the feature directorial debut of actor cheryl hines, who costarred in shellys last directorial effort, waitress. Directed by cheryl hines waitress, curb your enthusiasm from a screenplay by adrienne shelly waitress, the film stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell and justin long. Serious moonlight has a terrifically pedigreed cast and crew, including stars meg ryan, timothy hutton, kristen bell, and justin long, with waitress writer adrienne shelly behind the screenplay and curb your enthusiasm actress cheryl hines the firm directorial hand.

The title itself is still a mystery to me but the rest of the film is a little bit simplistic. Ryan takes on the role of louise, a highpowered manhattan lawyer, who is shocked to discover her husbands hutton affair with a much younger woman. Timothy hutton and meg ryan in serious moonlight the. Actress hines was honored that her first foray into directing was at the head of bringing. Shellys husband, andy ostrow, who produced the film and has a small role in it, decided to go forward with the project, for which shelly had been seeking a producer, after the actordirectors tragic death. Directed by curb your enthusiasms cheryl hines from a script by the late adrienne shelly, the bitter comedy serious moonlight is meant to be both funny and painful, but manages only the latter. She decides to surprise him at their country cottage, but quickly discovers shes the one. Actress hines was honored that her first foray into directing was at. The last person i want to blame for serious moonlight. Serious moonlight by cheryl hines cheryl hines, meg ryan.

Following her work on serious moonlight, meg ryan starred in and coproduced the hbo miniseries the best awful, an adaptation of the carrie fisher novel. Serious moonlight starring timothy hutton and meg ryan. Als louise meg ryan, eine erfolgreiche anwaltin aus manhattan, fur einen romantischen uberraschungskurzurlaub in. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. Nov 24, 2009 serious moonlight stars meg ryan and cheryl hines from a screenplay by waitress scribe adrienne shelly. In a desperate effort to save their marriage, ryan binds hutton to a chair with. Hutton, immobilized by duct tape, are held prisoner, serious moonlight has the static. It opens with the main character, the husband ian, played by timothy hutton, who is just about to write his wife a note saying that hes leaving her. Serious moonlight is not what i expected at all, in both a good and a bad way. When louise, a highpowered chicago attorney meg ryan, discovers that her husband ian timothy hutton is about to leave her for another. Although she has also proven herself as a dramatic actress, meg ryan used her blonde hair, blue eyes, and effervescent personality to greatest effect in romantic comedies of the 1980s and 90s. Though the ending is predictable, the film still works, even for a romantic comedy. Serious moonlight has a couple of little flaws but really i didnt have much of a problem with it.