If I Were You (2012 Canadian film)

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If I Were You
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Film poster
Directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin
Written byJoan Carr-Wiggin
Story by Joan Carr-Wiggin
Produced byDavid Gordian
Alan Latham
Starring
CinematographyBruce Worrall
Music by Paolo Buonvino
Guy Farley
Production
companies
Paragraph Pictures
TallTree Pictures
Distributed by Koch Lorber
Release date
Running time
115 minutes
CountriesCanada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

If I Were You is a 2012 Canadian-British [1] comedy-drama from Joan Carr-Wiggin starring Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling and Aidan Quinn. [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

Madelyn, a marketing professional, sees her husband (Paul) canoodling with his mistress (Lucy) in a restaurant and in her credulity decides to call him just to make sure it is him she has seen.

Madelyn's distraught call grips Paul in his guilt and, consequently, he decides to leave Lucy on the spot.

Madelyn follows Lucy and finds her upset and buying a long piece of rope. Suspecting Lucy is about to commit suicide, Madelyn stalks Lucy and finds she is getting ready to hang herself with the rope in her apartment.

To save Lucy, Madelyn befriends her and aiming to help Lucy regain her confidence and develop a career in acting, she helps her get into a production of King Lear. Madelyn plays Lear (as a Queen) while Lucy is the fool.

The script and scenes of the main story are theatrically articulated as the movie pays homage to the theater and the play that has been embedded in it.

Cast

Reception

The film has a 13% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 15 reviews with an average score of 3.86/10. [5]

Bruce Demara of The Toronto Star awarded the film one and a half stars out of four. [6] Andrew Schenker of Time Out awarded the film two stars out of five. [7] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine awarded the film two stars out of four. [8] David Noh of Film Journal International review wrote, "An anti-rom-com in the best sense, Joan Carr-Wiggin's film joyously revives the screwball tradition with real wit, as well as making one fabulously tart female buddy movie."[ citation needed ]

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References

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