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A Previous Engagement
Directed by
Joan Carr-Wiggin
R
2008
1h 58m
Comedy
,
Romance
5.6
37%
33%
3.9
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When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
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Cast of A Previous Engagement
Juliet Stevenson
Julia Reynolds
Tchéky Karyo
Alex Belmont
Daniel Stern
Jack Reynolds
Valerie Mahaffey
Grace
Claire Brosseau
Jenny Reynolds
Kate Miles
Samantha
Jacquelyn Renner
Tracey
Derek Riddell
Hotel Desk Clerk
Daniela Saioni
Woman in Cafe
Pierre Stafrace
Store Clerk
Elizabeth Whitmere
Jill Reynolds
Simon Woods
Tyler
Hendrik Jansen
Hendrik
Joan Carr-Wiggin
Director / Writer
Mark Arcieri
Editor
David Gertsman
Music
A Previous Engagement Ratings & Reviews
Behind The Lens
Debbie Lynn Elias
Get engaged with A Previous Engagement -- a wistful, hopeful romantic comedy you'll fall in love with over and over again.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
There are worse movies, but most restrain themselves to only one scene of Daniel Stern learning to salsa.
Variety
John Anderson
Despite the occasional detour into mawkishness, "A Previous Engagement" nicely balances unutterable truths about marriage and love with the comedy that is human interaction and the unending drama that is man and women, repulsion and attraction.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A little more [bitterness] would have gone a long way to offsetting the film's sticky sweetness.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
While this slow-starting update of Private Lives has plenty of laughs, the incredibly expressive Stevenson turns Julia's romantic dilemma into something genuinely moving. She makes A Previous Engagement something special.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Director Joan Carr-Wiggin intends to strike a blow for frustrated wives and mothers everywhere, but her unimaginative mixture of obvious farce and feeble midlife crisis harangues gives everything the whiff of interminable theater.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
More tired than the fantasy it promotes, A Previous Engagement aims at middle-aged women with the subtlety of a pitch for bladder-control medication.
Boxoffice Magazine
Mark Keizer
Carr-Wiggin doesn't have the chops to pull off a romantic farce, but she's so game for the attempt that we patiently wait for the movie to steer a steadier course.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Stevenson is so incandescent -- so funny, so vulnerable, so awkwardly sexy...that she lifts writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin's ordinary middle-aged rom-com above all its abundant clichs.
Film Journal International
Shirley Sealy
There are a few laughs in A Previous Engagement, but not nearly enough.
Metromix.com
Matt Pais
Middle-aged malaise is certainly underrepresented on screen, and maybe this is why.
L.A. Weekly
Tatyana Gershkovich
Alternatively contrived and on-the-nose, adding up to a cookie-cutter romantic comedy.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
A great actress even in a not-so-great comedy is fully worth the price of admission in these far from halcyon days, both movie-wise and world-wise.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
It's the rarest of all things: an intelligent, sophisticated romance with real meat on its bones.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
Malta's tourism industry will likely survive A Previous Engagement, a mirthless rom-com that sadistically strands once-prime comedic players Juliet Stevenson and Daniel Stern on the sunny Mediterranean spot in a protracted, sub-sitcom scenario.
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