IMDb plot summary: After a one-night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
Directed by Andy Tennant. Starring Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, and Jon Tenney.
Fools Rush In is a 1997 romance starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek as a couple who get pregnant after a one-night stand, and they decide to risk it all on an impulsive marriage, despite their very different backgrounds. My general reaction to almost everything that happened in this movie was, "Oh, those poor sweet dumb kids." Our two leads come across as so deeply unequipped for any kind of relationship but so well-intentioned, and they make such bad decisions and then make even weirder decisions trying to fix them, but you kinda hope it'll work out because they just seem like college kids with no clue how to communicate. There's a sincerity to both their performances that transfers what would have been an irritating relationship dynamic to just... a cheerfully incompetent one. Perry's character has no ability to have difficult conversations, so he just constantly lies to avoid them, even if the lie will ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLY be discovered in the next 10 minutes, and Hayek's character acts so heavily on impulse while claiming she doesn't. Should they be having a baby together? Absolutely not. Do I kind of hope it works out because I feel bad for them like they're clueless teenagers? Absolutely. I kind of feel the same way about the movie. Does it work as a romance? Mostly not. Do I kind of root for it anyway because I feel bad for how sincere everything in this feels? Absolutely.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Fools Rush In < For Pete's Sake
Fools Rush In > The Day of the Triffids
Fools Rush In > The Conversation
Fools Rush In < The Tempest (2010)
Fools Rush In < The Rescuers
Fools Rush In > Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Fools Rush In > Superman
Fools Rush In > The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Fools Rush In > Till the Stars Come Down
Fools Rush In > National Theatre Live: Everyman
Fools Rush In < Camelot
Final spot: #2372 out of 3989, or 41%.
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