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Actors: Tate Donovan, Sandra Bullock, Mary Mara
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Love Potion #9 |
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Nerdy biochemist Paul Matthews is loser when it comes to girls. His friends tell him of a gypsy, Madame Ruth, and he gives in to the idea of visiting her for help. Madame Ruth sees zippo in Paul's romantic future and out of sympathy gives him a vial of love potion #8, which will make Paul irresistable to women when he talks, but hateful to other men. Being a scientist, Paul is disbelieving until his cat accidentally ingests some of the potion, meows, and attracts every feline of the opposite sex within hearing distance.
Paul and his partner, equally nerdy Diane Farrow, analyze the potion, find out why it works, test it on chimps and then use it on themselves. The doses lasts 4 hours. With it, Diane gets out of a traffic ticket and begins to blossom from geek to beauty with all that male attention...even from the Prince of England! Paul uses the potion to get back at a woman who had rejected him, then makes up for lost time getting laid by sorority girls. Their wildest fantasies have come true, but they realize it's not the real thing, which is what they discover they have with each other. Too bad an old boyfriend of Diane's gets his hands on the same potion and leads her to the altar first. Paul will have to crash the wedding with a more powerful potion, #9!
--Karen Law, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Love Potion #9 |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kind of comedy
- love potion/spell
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- None
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