I have decided to work my way through the filmography of Hugh Jackman, Starting with Paperback Hero (1999)
Plot in a Paragraph: Aussie truck driver Jack Willis (Hugh Jackman) has secretly written a romance novel. Through fear of being ridiculed (as it's not the sort of thing an Australian man's, man does) he used his female best friends name Ruby (Claudia Karvan) things get complicated when a big publisher arrives in town, went Ruby to go to Sydney for a promotional tour. She agreed to go along with the charade, so she can pay for her wedding to (Jacks best friend) Hamish.
Whilst it is not without its predictable moments. The film is devoid of most of the usual cliches that the Hollywood attempts at this genre are littered with. One of the main cliches is usually the handling of the third party in the love triangle: the girl's nasty/vain/racist/evil/self obsessed totally unbelievable boyfriend to whom she is about to be married.
Here, Hamish is a lovable, wonderful character, who you'd happily sit and drink an ice cold beer with, he is without caricature or cliché. He is just a lovely bloke.
In his first movie, Jackman is surprisingly very solid and Karvan impressed me too. If anything she is the star of the movie.
A pleasant watch on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Plot in a Paragraph: Aussie truck driver Jack Willis (Hugh Jackman) has secretly written a romance novel. Through fear of being ridiculed (as it's not the sort of thing an Australian man's, man does) he used his female best friends name Ruby (Claudia Karvan) things get complicated when a big publisher arrives in town, went Ruby to go to Sydney for a promotional tour. She agreed to go along with the charade, so she can pay for her wedding to (Jacks best friend) Hamish.
Whilst it is not without its predictable moments. The film is devoid of most of the usual cliches that the Hollywood attempts at this genre are littered with. One of the main cliches is usually the handling of the third party in the love triangle: the girl's nasty/vain/racist/evil/self obsessed totally unbelievable boyfriend to whom she is about to be married.
Here, Hamish is a lovable, wonderful character, who you'd happily sit and drink an ice cold beer with, he is without caricature or cliché. He is just a lovely bloke.
In his first movie, Jackman is surprisingly very solid and Karvan impressed me too. If anything she is the star of the movie.
A pleasant watch on a lazy Saturday afternoon.