Prelude to a Kiss (1992)

GREAT MOVIE

GREAT MOVIE. WATCH IT OVER AND OVER THROUGH THE YEARS AND SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT EACH TIME.




September 23, 2008

Not so good.........

If you have nothing better to watch then you might be able to justify your time spent on this one. Both main actors are rather young and haven't fully developed their acting skills at this point. Actually, Patty Duke (Rita's mother) gave the best performance. It's OK - but........ July 23, 2008

Hope this makes you think!

I liked this movie, a valuable message wrapped up in a good story line and hey, Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin ... nice. However, I wish the guy she 'melded with' had been cast differently (don't know his name) - good actor, but no SPARK. February 16, 2008

I will love you forever, no matter what

When we tell someone we love them, what do we mean by that? Do we mean we like the way they look? Do we mean we like to make love to their body? Love is a word that is used to describe a lot of very different feelings.

Let's say you are a guy, and you fall in love with a girl and tell her that you will love her forever, no matter what. Then she turns into an old man. Will you still love her? If not, what did you mean in the first place?

Who are we? Are we our bodies? Are we the people we see in the mirror? Or are we something else? Are we eternal souls inhabiting temporary mortal bodies? If so, what do we really look like?

Alec Baldwin falls in love with Meg Ryan and marries her. Before the wedding reception is over, Meg Ryan has traded bodies with an old man. The woman that Alec Baldwin finds himself honeymooning with is some strange old man in Meg Ryan's body. It doesn't take Alec long to figure it out, either. He knows soon enough that this isn't the girl he married.

Will he ever find the real Meg Ryan again, the one now in an old man's body? How will they react to each other? Will the two displaced souls ever return to the bodies they were born in? Why did the transfer happen in the first place? Is the old man some kind of evil spirit that takes advantage of young people by stealing their bodies when he gets old?

This movie could have been played many ways. It could have been a horror flick about a demon who possesses the bodies of his victims. It could have been a very intense and moody story of love and doubt. Imagine how it would have played out, if a powerful actor like Richard Burton played the Alec Baldwin role, or if a fiery Al Pacino played the role. As it was, Baldwin did a very bland job of it, but that fit into the overall atmosphere of this movie, which is usually light hearted, not very intense. It would have made a more powerful statement about love if someone like Richard Burton played the leading male, and it falls into the category of perhaps romantic comedy, or romantic fantasy, with bland Alec Baldwin, but that works too. I don't know how seriously you want your audience to take this plot, unrealistic as it is, so you may want to downplay it with Alec Baldwin.

Who is kissing who in that title "kiss"? Actually, this is a very sweet and romantic movie that may even make you cry. There may be some realism in it, if we do in fact live on after death, if we are not limited to our current bodies, if our souls can have a gender that is different from our current body. As for the ability to trade bodies with someone else, so-called "possession", I wouldn't bet on it. I've never heard of a "near death experience" that mentions possession.

This movie can be compared to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, All Of Me starring Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin, and even the tv series Wife Swap. It is fairly close to All Of Me, but the Tomlin-Martin movie is much funnier and sillier. Lily's soul ends up at times in a bowl of water, and I think in a horse. I'll never forget the scene where the priest thinks that there is a connection between a toilet flush and the telephone.

As a post-script, who are the morons who gave my review a thumbs down? It happens to be a great review. Why would some total moron object to it? September 8, 2006

strange but good

It's a good movie, even though oerall it's kinda strange....show's what real romance is February 28, 2006

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