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I am , and always will be a huge Kevin Costner fan and will see anything he appears in. In the case of Rumor Has It, his appearance is limited but very well done as the guy who nailed Grandma ( Shirley McLaine), Ma and finally the daughter ( Jennifer Aniston). The show stealer here is Shirley as the crusty grandma who seduced Costner when he was pre-university. They are supposedly the characters that inspired the book and the film The Graduate, or I guess you could say fiction within fiction.
Aniston wonders why she seems so different from other members of her family. Her mom died when she was nine, but Aniston discovers that just before marrying her ( Aniston's ) father, she disappeared for a few days and actually had an affair with Costner. After counting the months, Aniston thinks that maybe she was the result of her mom's fling with Costner, looks up Costner and confronts him. But Costner suffered an accident as a soccer player in school and is sterile so he couldn't possibly be Aniston's dad. She then gets a liitle drunk after a night on the town with Costner and awakens in Costner's bed, even though she is engaged to a young lawyer ( Mark Ruffalo ) she consents to attending a ball with Costner and there she is confronted by her fiancee. She has been one mixed up gal from the getgo and now she has to decided between Costner, a man old enough to be her father, and Rufallo who has been both her best friend and lover.
I'm not a big Aniston fan , probably because I only saw a few episodes of Friends, and felt that most of the films she did were just so so. But she does an excellent job here as the mixed up daughter in search of herself. But as I mentioned earlier, the real star here is Shirley McLaine and when she and Costner come face to face again at the conclusion of Rumor Has It, that scene alone is well worth the price of the dvd or the rental.
Not a big hit, but certainly a pleasant watch. :35:
Aniston wonders why she seems so different from other members of her family. Her mom died when she was nine, but Aniston discovers that just before marrying her ( Aniston's ) father, she disappeared for a few days and actually had an affair with Costner. After counting the months, Aniston thinks that maybe she was the result of her mom's fling with Costner, looks up Costner and confronts him. But Costner suffered an accident as a soccer player in school and is sterile so he couldn't possibly be Aniston's dad. She then gets a liitle drunk after a night on the town with Costner and awakens in Costner's bed, even though she is engaged to a young lawyer ( Mark Ruffalo ) she consents to attending a ball with Costner and there she is confronted by her fiancee. She has been one mixed up gal from the getgo and now she has to decided between Costner, a man old enough to be her father, and Rufallo who has been both her best friend and lover.
I'm not a big Aniston fan , probably because I only saw a few episodes of Friends, and felt that most of the films she did were just so so. But she does an excellent job here as the mixed up daughter in search of herself. But as I mentioned earlier, the real star here is Shirley McLaine and when she and Costner come face to face again at the conclusion of Rumor Has It, that scene alone is well worth the price of the dvd or the rental.
Not a big hit, but certainly a pleasant watch. :35:
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