I Love You Don't Touch Me [DVD]

Enteetaining, not great

This is a terrific film. It moves fast and the dialogue is hysterical and honest in a way that most romantic comedies can't seem to pull off. I was sad when the movie ended because it was so fun and put me in a really good mood.Definitely one of the best rom-coms out there. Great music too.

A very lame, low budget indie flick about an affluent 25 yr old Jewish woman living in LA and trying to break into the music business as a lounge singer, with the improbable idea that in the present day ('97) this young woman would be a VIRGIN. Sorry, this idea ALONE is enough to sink this film and that's not considering the other terrible problems in the script, direction and acting.The only possible explanation for a woman of this kind of background (educated, well-to-do, liberal Jewish upbringing, moderately attractive, thin) being a virgin would be extreme religious beliefs, physical deformity, gross obesity OR she's been in a coma for 8 years. There is no believable explanation for the character's lack of sexual drive or experience, except that she wants to meet "the perfect" man (with a big penis AND big wallet...how crude) and get married.Katie (Marla Schaffel) is a grating, shrill charicture of an overbearing "Jewish Princess" stereotype so flat and one dimensional that it would border on anti-semitism if I didn't strongly suspect that writer-director Julie Davis is Jewish herself -- the self-hating kind. Who would WANT a miserable, shrewish, interfering, clinging witch like Katie? You can easily imagine this character in some trite sitcom, set 30 years in the future, in which she is an equally stereotyped "nagging Jewish Mother".Add to this a deary, cliche-ridden script which is painfully unfunny and unrealistic (unemployed Katie lives in a fancy, decorated apartment in expensive LA, as do her friends). She smashes her car into a FERARRI, and the driver is a famous composer (fortunately, as Katie is an aspiring singer) who instantly falls for her and isn't put off by her virginity.The tiniest saving grace here is that Marla Schaffel (who has never acted in films before and it shows) happens to be a Broadway Tony-nominated singer and she has a wonderful voice. I wouldn't have minded listening to her sing for 90 minutes, but watching her act is agonizing. She doesn't look young enough or innocent enough for the utterly unworldly Katie.Everyone else is incredibly flat, lifeless, trite and corny. This whole things plays like a failed pilot for a sitcom. The bad language, references to sex, body parts etc. seem like dropped-in crudeness in a lame effort to sound trendy. Also the ending is very abrupt, as if they literally ran out of script or money and just stopped filming. There isn't a realistic or believable moment on the screen.Detailing the bad dialogue and terrible writing would just take forever. Trust me that every second of this (except for a couple of the songs) is jut unendurable. An insult to women, and an insult to Jewish women in particular. Yecch.

Once again julie Davis puts a great movie out that lets men into the minds of women.

Rarely is there a movie that comes along that has the message that this movie has. Want you want is what you need, just because everyone else is doing it, that does not mean you must participate in what everyone else is doing. Seeing behind the outward appearence, we see a woman who is conflicted about her feelings and how she wants to react to them. This movie shows that sometimes when you want something so much, you will overlook the most obvious solutions to you probelms and your happines can elude you due to your narrow focus on the prize.

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This movie is about a 25 year old woman who has been saving her first time for the right perfect guy. She soon finds that the perfect guy is the one thats been there all along. However, the guy is now with her best friend! This movie is so perfect. Honest, raw, and it had some of the funniest scenes I have ever watched on film!

Wonderful movie! Hope to find it in DVD format soon :)