Born Romantic
- 2001 film
Born Romantic
Born Romantic is a second slice of what David Kane (This Year's Love) does best: a quirky picture of contemporary London with young and variously screwed-up protagonists getting a second chance at love.
This time, the premise is that there is a salsa club somewhere in East London where three boys meet three girls and things go other than smoothly until they actually take the trouble to learn to dance - and in case we didn't guess the metaphoric point of this, Olivia Williams's cold control freak lays it out for Craig Ferguson's Dean Martin-obsessed retro-lounge singer at an early stage.
The other central characters are Jane Horrocks as a party girl who is not exactly keen to pick up again with David Morissey, the man who jilted her years earlier and who has now come to London to make amends; and Jimi Mistry as an incompetent thief who falls for a neurotic grave-tender. Adrian Lester is the widower mini-cab driver who listens to all six moan about each other and dispenses wisdom on a regular basis; back at the cab office, Ian Hart rants misogynistically until Kenneth Cranham tells him he is wrong.
The stylised and schematic script is redeemed by loud Latin music and an affection for these characters' quirks.
First released: Monday 17th September 2001
Extra features
- Original theatrical trailer
- 8 deleted scenes
- Interviews with Craig Ferguson, Jane Horrocks, Catherine McCormack, David Morrissey, Olivia Williams and director David Kane
- Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 92
- Subtitles: English
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