Author: Chris Rock

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 13-11-2012

Details: Product Description Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in New York with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. When Marion's jolly father, her oversexed sister, and her sister's lewd boyfriend unceremoniously descends upon them for an overseas visit, it initiates two unforgettable days of family mayhem. How will the couple fare. . . when the French come to New York? Marion (Julie Delpy) is now settled in New York, where she lives with Mingus (Chris Rock), a radio journalist, their two children from previous relationships and a cat. The couple are very much in love! Marion is still a photographer and preparing her exhibition. Her father, her sister and her boyfriend (who is in fact Marion's ex and who was not planned at all) arrive in New York for the opening. The clash of cultures but above all the unbridled personalities of the three newcomers will cause real fireworks! Amazon.ca Julie Delpy directed and starred in 2 Days in Paris, a 2007 film about romance, culture shock, and family. Be 2 Days in New York, also directed by and starring Delpy, a direct sequel? Well--sort of. Her character has the same name, Marion, but she's moved on from her previous relationship and settled in NYC with a public-radio host named Mingus (Chris Rock). A sense of deja vu is understandable, because here comes family again, in the form of her fragrant, boisterous father (Albert Delpy, Julie's real-life dad) and a sister towing her latest loser boyfriend (they're played by co-screenwriters Alexia Landeau and Alex Nahon). All of this trouble is happening while Marion is launching a gallery show, where the centerpiece of her collection is her soul, put up for the highest bidder. The makings of a likable enough comedy are here, but the film feels so slack, and the jokes so familiar, that 2 Days in New York never manages to ignite. Delpy clearly loves Woody Allen movies, and that vibe creeps in from time to time, but it only underscores how far this movie falls from Woody's best. Kudos, however, to Chris Rock, who slips into the skin of a downtown intellectual and pulls off nice straight-man duty--even when he's conversing with a life-size cardboard cutout of Barack Obama. --Robert Horton

UPC: 629159048598

EAN: 0629159048598

Languages: English

Binding: HD DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood