Unconditional Love (Widescreen/Full Screen)

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Unconditional Love (DVD)

Academy Award winner Kathy Bates stars with Rupert Everett in this comic thriller about Grace Beasley and Dirk Simpson a Midwestern woman who has just lost the two most important men in her life, and the long-secret lover of the pop star Grace has idolized for years. Two completely different people forced together by their desire to find a killer.and their shared quest for Unconditional Love.When Grace Beasley s (Bates) husband (Dan Aykroyd)leaves her, she travels to Chicago for a concert by the one man she has adored for years, Welsh singing star Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce). But when Fox is murdered by a serial killer known as The Crossbow Killer,a devastated Beasley travels to London for Fox s funeral. There she encounters Dirk Simpson,who has secretly been Fox s lover for twenty years.Now,these two damaged people with nothing in common other than their love for Fox travel to Chicago determined to bring his murderer to justice.

]]>Despite the success of My Best Friend s Wedding, Aussie director P.J. Hogan certainly hasn t gone Hollywood. Unconditional Love, co-written with his wife and fellow filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse, is a deeply eccentric concoction that ranges from campy comedy to murder mystery. If the whole thing doesn t really come off, it does have much that is funny, giddy, or simply weirder than all-get-out. Kathy Bates enjoys herself as a discarded wife who impulsively flies to England to attend the funeral of her idol, a beloved singer--Jonathan Pryce, in glorious sequined form. Meeting his "valet" (read: secret gay lover), Rupert Everett, she determines to find the dead man s murderer. It s hard to get the tone right on this kind of movie, but it s also easy to like a film that finds time for tributes to Barry Manilow (hey, Hogan rehabilitated ABBA in Muriel s Wedding) and the reassuring spirit of Julie Andrews. --Robert Horton