The Opposite Sex and How to Live With Them Movie Review 1993

Yuppies (Gross and Cox) from different backgrounds (he's Jewish, she's a WASP) meet, fall in love, fight, break up, and reunite, inspiring yawning disinterest. All this while their two best buddies (Pollak and Brown) offer what are meant to be "candid insights" delivered directly to the camera. Flat and formulaic romantic comedy wants to sparkle, but script lacks both purpose and point, and worse, takes way too much time not getting there. Winner of the annual Grammar Police award for the worst example of a semantically incorrect title in recent years.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 86 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Comedy, Singles, War Between the Sexes, Buddies

Screenplay

Noah Stern

Cast

Arye Gross, Courteney Cox, Kevin Pollak, Julie Brown, Mitchell Ryan, Philip Bruns, Mitzi McCall, B.J. Ward

Director

Matthew Meshekoff

Music

Ira Newborn

Producer

Stanley M. Brooks, Robert Newmyer, Miramax Films