Music From Another Room | 
| Director: Charlie Peters
Actors: Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Gretchen Mol, Martha Plimpton, Brenda Blethyn
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  132 reviews
Sales Rank: 13696
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1004128D
ISBN: 0792854330
UPC: 027616882394
EAN: 9780792854333
ASIN: B0000714C4
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Release Date: January 7, 2003
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Music from another room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of danny (jude law) a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/15/2008 Starring: Jude Law Gretchen Mol Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Charlie Peters
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 music from another room May 28, 2009
Frank Lindberg
What a wonderful movie, from start to finish it draws you in and makes you want for more... six star if you ask me
 In Perfect Harmony April 10, 2009
Karen Joan (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is a very sweet, romantic film. My husband and I spent a quiet evening at home watching this one, and we both really enjoyed it. While the plot is familiar and predictable, it is still very well done, and exactly what you want this kind of movie to be.
In MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM, we first meet 5 year old Danny as he helps to deliver the baby of his recently deceased mother's best friend. After baby Anna makes her unique arrival into the world, young Danny declares that he will marry her someday. Soon after this momentous event, however, Danny and his father move back to England. Jump forward 25 years, and we meet Danny again, newly returned to the USA. He thinks he is going to move in with his girlfriend, but she does not have the same idea. In fact, she is leaving town to be with someone else. Fate then does a little happy dance, and Danny ends up living above a bakery, with a job as a delivery boy, delivering a cake to the family of his mother's best friend, where he runs in to baby Anna, all grown up now. She is lovely and sweet, and of course, engaged to someone else. Danny immediately falls in love with her, and delivers that classic pick up line, "Wow, the last time I saw you, you were covered in after-birth." Anna does not think much of Danny, at first, but over time, he grows on her. Will fate intervene again? Will Danny and Anna fulfill their destiny?
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is charming, fun, and innocent. Jude Law is young and handsome, and just right for the role of Danny. Gretchen Mol is lovely, sweet, and actually very naive as Anna. Jennifer Tilly is excellent as the quirky, sheltered blind sister, Nina, who finds unexpected romance with Jesus, a dishwasher who embraces life, wonderfully portrayed by Vincent Laresca. The rest of the cast is equally outstanding, and does an excellent job of portraying this wacky, dysfunctional, but loving family.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is an odd-ball, funny, wacky romantic comedy that will tickle your funny bone and warm your heart. Yes, it is predicable, standard stuff, but it is very, very well done, for what it is. These characters and their story really capture your heart, and keep you caring until the very end. If you want to spend a quiet evening cuddling on the couch with your sweetie, then this is the perfect movie. Popcorn and snuggles, what a perfect evening with the one you love.
 Desperate attempt at magical reality fails August 10, 2008
Mark Allen (Washington, DC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I adore Jude Law, but even his considerable charms are sadly dimmed in this pathetic effort. The plot reads like a reject from the "high-concept" comedy assembly line at 1980's Touchstone Pictures: young boy delivers baby, falls instantly in love with infant girl, then returns more than 20 years later to fulfill a "destiny" he had apparently forgotten: marrying her. You'll never guess what happens next ... Oh, all right! Of course you will. Aside from how truly dreadful it is, this film lacks any surprises.
No character in the film betrays a whit of common sense as they are folded, spindled and mutilated in service of a storyline so painstakingly-contrived as to be embarrassing. Director Charlie Peters fails to correct any of the flaws in his own screenplay (according to IMDb, it took this hack another 11 years to land any sort of gig at all), shoehorning a generally impressive cast into trite situations unleavened by any worthy dialogue. The pacing is wrong -- Helen Keller could have done a better job editing this mess. Especially depressing is the lack of chemistry between any of the leads. This movie fails at all levels -- and is made all the worse by a garish production design that leaves the physically-attractive cast looking as bad as they ever have on film.
Even Jude Law's one shirtless scene is brief, and shot in near-darkness for crying out loud! The DVD transfer is poor, there is no widescreen version, and the "extras" consist solely of the theatrical trailer that serves as fair warning to potential viewers.
There really is no one to whom I can recommend this film.
Music From Another Room: A Guy's Description of Love January 21, 2008
Sharon D. Felker (Tallahassee, FL USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When five year old Danny helps deliver the baby of his deceased mother's best friend, he declares that he will marry her, the baby, someday. His father then moves him to England and the story picks up 25 years later.
We next see an absolutely gorgeous Danny (Jude Law) on his return to the United States where he must find employment and a place to live. Fate jumps in and provides him with both in the form of a rented room above a bakery and a job delivering baked goods. Fate again steps in and creates a bicycle accident that knocks him off his bike and into the arms of none other than Anna Swan(Gretchen Mol), the baby he helped deliver 25 years before. Without a doubt, Danny is obviously smitten even before he realizes who she is. No big surprise we discover the girl of his dreams is engaged to someone else.
The delightfully disfunctional Swan family brings comic relief to what could have easily been just another run-of-the-mill romance story. Grace (Brenda Blethyn), the family matriarch is a light hearted, rather etherial sort of mother. You adore her character for a variety of reasons, most importantly because she genuinely loves Danny. Nina (Jennifer Tilly) the blind sister who is sheltered beyond belief until Danny encourages her to spread her wings a little and teaches her that there is life outside of her sheltered existence. Billy (Jeremy Piven) the brother that cheats on his insane wife, Irene (Jane Adams) (these characters are obviously included solely to garner a few comedic moments and succeed well). Karen (Martha Plimpton) the gay sister who has a great line or two but basically is a rather dispensable character.
There is one character that bears a special mention, Jesus (pronounced in the english form rather than the spanish way) played by Vincent Laresca. He plays the eventual love interest of Nina. Girls will fall for his dorky touching portrayal of a man in love with a blind woman.
There is a lot of predictability with this movie but it is still worth watching. I would be remiss if I didn't point out there is one of the most delightful death scenes ever filmed, it is also one of the funniest scenes in the movie. This is a feel good romantic adventure that allows the viewer to escape reality for a delightful 104 minutes.
Formulaic "Music" hits all right notes with excellent ensemble cast. July 5, 2007
KerrLines (Baltimore,MD)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is definitely not just another romantic comedy. Yes, much of this screenplay is formulaic where you will know what is going to happen next, but so what-it works, and most effectively. From the very moment that young Danny is asked to reach in Brenda Blethyn's womb to untangle the umbilical chord wrapped around her birthing-baby's neck, we enter the unusual world of passion,fate and destiny. Forward around twenty years and Danny (a very funny and appealing Jude Law) is destined by fate to meet the baby he helped deliver and has vowed to marry.
What puts this rom-com above many others is the EXCEPTIONAL ensemble cast of actors that understand their parts and act them to the hilt.In fact, other than Gretchen Mol's character Anna, the baby grown up, who's character is overly responsible and self-deprived of passion ( therefore rightly not so animated) the rest of the cast, Brenda Blethyn, Jennifer Tilly,Jane Adams, Jeremy Piven, and ESPECIALLY Martha Plimpton and Vince Laresca are comedically quite effective in saving this film from becoming ordinary.
Yes, this film is formulaic,but think about it-formulas are time tested and true-that's why they work. MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM just does it a bit better than most hitting all the right notes.
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