Recently updated on November 13th, 2022 at 10:10 pm
Scott Winant (Director) and Winnie Holzman (Writer) have joined forces to create their first feature film, “‘Til There Was You,” and the result is a delightful, old-fashioned romantic comedy clearly structured for the 90’s. The story, which takes place in Los Angeles, revolves around writer Gwen Moss (Jeanne Tripplehorn), architect Nick Dawkan (Dylan McDermott) and former child star, Francesca Lansfield (Sarah Jessica Parker).
Gwen and Nick are a couple waiting to happen but before they unite, or re-unite since they literally bumped into each other in school twenty years earlier, they must be ready for each other – and that takes hooking up with a few wrong people along the way. And the common denominator in all of this is Francesca Lansfield, who needs a ghostwriter for her autobiography and a designer for her building project.
Gwen, having been hired to ghostwrite Francesca’s autobiography, arranges to meet her at the highly high-tech restaurant, The Awful Truth – designed by Nick – but Francesca never shows up because she is busy taking charge of her building project and bringing Nick, whom she has just met and is attracted to, in as designer. The plan is to bring down Francesca’s quaint garden apartment complex, La Fortuna – whose idyllic courtyard setting seems to cast a spell on all who walk through its gate – to make way for a new, more modern development. Gwen eventually moves into La Fortuna and comes to Nick’s attention through a series of anonymous letters she writes to the newspaper in support of preserving La Fortuna and its link to the past, not to mention its long-time tenants. Nick ultimately becomes sympathetic in the fight to save La Fortuna when he makes a visit to the pastoral garden complex and sees its “soul.”
THE RUNNING TIME OF THIS FILM IS APPROXIMATELY 125 MINUTES. IT IS RATED PG13