And Then Came Love (2007)

Julie (Vanessa Williams - "Soul Food" TV's "Ugly Betty") is a successful magazine columnist who has it all - a great job a rent controlled apartment an adoring boyfriend and best of all an adorable six-year-old son named Jake. Her perfect world however is rocked when she opens Pandora's Box and seeks out the anonymous sperm donor who fathered her young son. Also starring Kevin Daniels ("Ladder 49") Ben Verren ("Idlewild" "All That Jazz") Michael Boatman (TV's "Arli$$" "Spin City") and Eartha Kitt ('Bommerang" TV's "Batman").Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391154907 Manufacturer No: 115490 Product Description

middling romantic comedy

**1/2

Julie (the lovely and appealing Vanessa Williams) is a writer and a single mother who conceived her only child through artificial insemination. When the boy begins having trouble at school, she goes in search of the anonymous sperm donor to find out if the man was really the Ivy League genius he claimed to be on his application. Naturally, meeting him leads to all sorts of personal complications and romantic entanglements, especially since Julie is already going steady with a well-meaning executive who, in spite of all his protestations to the contrary, is actually every bit as commitment-phobic as she is.

Despite a fair number of halfway decent scenes and an overall feeling of generosity and goodwill, "And Then Came Love" is simply too slick, too contrived and too insubstantial to rank as anything more than just a negligible romantic comedy. For even though the movie earns points for neither sanctifying nor demonizing its major characters, the set-up and resolution are far too formulaic and pat to be taken very seriously. Moreover, the performances tend to be a trifle rough around the edges, except for the wonderful Eartha Kitt, who steals every scene she's in playing Julie's high-strung, intrusive, and hyper-critical mother. November 30, 2007

And Then Came Love

What a fun movie. Although it isn't rated, it is a clean movie. NO Sex violence or cursing. It is a romantic comedy about a career woman and her relationships with her mother, boyfriend and the father of her child.
The story is also color blind and could have been filmed with any ethnic group.
I saw this movie when it premeired in New York City. August 16, 2007

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