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| Avenue Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 1991 |
Starring:
Andie MacDowell, Bill Paterson, Jack Shepherd, John Malkovich, Joss Ackland, Lolita Davidovich, Peter Riegert, Ricci Harnett, Rosemary Martin, Rudi Davies
Summary:
Stranded in a London hotel due to their excessive spending, an American couple finds that their most valuable artifact has been stolen.
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The Object of Beauty is a throwback to the romantic comedies of Swinging London cinema, but lacks the punch of the best of that late 1960s genre. Mildly diverting but empty picture.
Object of Beauty is another zap-the-yuppies outing, more elegant than most, and sophisticated, too, but hollow and on the whole charmless as it leaves us uninvolved with the spectacle of cash-strapped John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell holed up in a posh London hotel, living on room service and dodging the manager. [19 Apr 1991, p.42]
Perhaps the shrewdest thing the filmmakers have done is call the film The Object of Beauty instead of A Thing of Beauty, which would make much more sense. By doing so they've removed what they must have known was a far-too-tempting opening for reviewers -- of saying A Thing of Beauty is not a joy forever. Even with the change, though, the sentiment fits.
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