Rumor Has It - ACE Train Movie Review

Thirtysomething Sarah Huttinger, who has spent most of her adult life in New York City, is flying home to California with her long time boyfriend, Jeff Daly, for the wedding of her annoyingly perky younger sister, Annie. While Sarah and Jeff have recently announced they're engaged to be married, Sarah has been having second thoughts, and she isn't excited about the prospect of spending time with the family where she's always felt like the odd duck. As Sarah tries to decide what she should do with her personal and professional lives, she turns to her sharp-tongued and still youthful grandmother, Katharine, for advice, and Katharine shares a little-known bit of family history - that Sarah's now-deceased mother left her father, Earl, a few days before their wedding and ran off with another man for several days before coming back and marrying Earl. However, after hearing this Sarah is also treated to some long-simmering local gossip about a young man who ran off with a bride-to-be after he was seduced by her mother...and that the story became the basis for the hit movie The Graduate. Sarah begins to wonder, was Katharine the real-life Mrs. Robinson of this story? And if it's true, who was the man who had affairs with Sarah's mother and grandmother? Was it dashing and wealthy family friend Beau Burroughs, who has also turned Sarah's head?

This movie is pretty sick and twisted - not on purpose. Watching Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner getting up close and personal with each other is not my idea of fun - pretty gross actually. The fact that Kevin Costner's character slept with three generations of women (Aniston's character, her mom and grandmother) didn't help with the barf factor. Beyond that, the plot was OK - nothing special. I didn't think the characters responded to the situations put in front of them appropriately and the chemistry between the characters didn't work for me. Aniston hasn't had good luck with producing quality films and this one doesn't break the streak (Office Space is the only good movie she was in that I can think of - and she wasn't even a main character). Anyway, this is one to skip.

Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Would I watch it again: No
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Mena Suvari

I typically watch movies on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while riding the ACE Train from Tracy to Santa Clara. The opinions expressed are those of me, myself and I.