Director: Matthew Bright
Writer: Bill Weiner
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, Patricia Arquette
Carol is an artist, Steven trains firefighters. They've lived together for months and plan to marry soon, except that Steve's left out an important detail about himself and his chromosomes: his parents, twin brother, and many of his relatives are dwarfs. Carol learns this when Steve's brother Rolfe drops by, the day after she discovers she's pregnant. Why hasn't he told her about his family? She calls on them, and they take her to their hearts. But tensions mount between the lovers as she believes he's ambivalent and angry about his family, and he thinks she's romanticizing the life and many health problems of little people. Can they get over these emotional barriers?
Not funny enough to be a comedy and too stupid a premise to be taken seriously no wonder this height challenged drama had problems trying to find a market. Carol played by Beckinsale thinks shes found her dream man in firefighter Steve, only shortly before getting married and just after learning shes pregnant she finds out Steve's family are all dwarfs. Sounds dumb and it is, Gary Oldman on his knees and with the help of computer tricks plays Steve's twin dwarf brother Rolfe, who helps Carol come to terms with her worries about possibly carrying a dwarf baby. Matthew Bright who directed the awesome freeway manages to make midgets unfunny something that's hard to achieve, he's not helped by the dubious plot. Not even the comedic idea of Oldman doing an entire movie as a dwarf makes it worthwhile, so unless you're in the need of a turkey leave this mini curiosity alone.
(3 out of 10)
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