When the Valentine’s Day is coming, there are many romantic movies released in theater, one of them is ‘When in Rome‘. This movie is a free adaptation of a classic movie that was released in 1954; ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’.
The story of this movie is fairly cliché, it tells about a successful woman who’s not lucky enough with her love life. Beth Harper (Bell) is a beautiful and successful woman who lives in the middle of the glamorous of New York City. She does not have any problem with her career and finance, and she is a beautiful and happy single woman. Until she meets with her ex who’s getting engage with other woman soon. She realizes that when it comes to love, she doesn’t have too much luck.
When Harper attends her sister’s wedding in Rome, she meets with a handsome reporter, Nick Beamon (Duhamel), who has the same love fate with her. However, although Harper feels interested with Nick, she chooses to challenge the myth of Rome about the love fountain. It is said that if someone threw a coin into the fountain, then he will find his love, so Harper thinks if she took some coins from the fountain, maybe there are some magics will come above of her. Unfortunately Harper doesn’t realize if there is another myth about the fountain, it’s said if she took the coin from the fountain, then the man who threw the coin will be crazy about her.
Harper takes four coins from the fountain, then the miracle starts to work, Harper gets some unexpected surprises when she returns to New York. Some unknown men come up and beg for her love; even they do it in odd and extreme ways. Amid the confusion, Nick comes back into Harper’s life, but this time she wonders about Nick’s love, whether this is a true love or it just the effect of the coin that she has taken from the fountain.
This movie is the newest movie of Mark Steven Johnson, who has worked on Daredevil (2003) and Ghost Rider (2007). Kristen Bell is the main magnet of this movie, some of her romantic-comedy movies got pretty good position at the box office chart and maybe this movie will also get the same fate with her previous movies.
Note:
In Rome there is Trevi Fountain which is believed will bring love for someone who threw coins into the fountain, at least there are 3.000 Euros worth of coins that thrown by the tourists every day.
Weekend Box Office Actuals (U.S.)
Jan 22 – 24 weekend
Avatar – Legion - The Book of Eli - Tooth Fairy – The Lovely Bones – Sherlock Holmes – Extraordinary Measures – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – It’s Complicated – The Spy Next Door.
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