I get her machine and leave a message, ball's in her court.

Ryan, in some recent interviews, has joked about getting into a 12-step program to recover from always being cast in romantic comedies. Kate is the ambitious advertising executive. Merely that you admired her, but you were hesitant to make an overture, as you'd been told she was courting another. Kate and Leopold reads like a cheap dime-store Harlequin romance novel. Meg Ryan (YOUVE GOT MAIL) and Hugh Jackman (REAL STEEL, X-MEN) come together as star-crossed lovers who discover that passion and chivalry never go out of style. Only because I told her of your affections. Language Label Description Also known as English: Kate & Leopold. No-one wants to be romanced by a buffoon. You, Charles, are a merry-andrew.Įverything plays a farce to you. Patrice, she thought you were cute - probably gay, and cute - and cute, Leo, that's just the kiss of death.Īs I see it, Patrice has not an inkling of your affections, and it's no wonder. But perhaps one day when you've awoken from a pleasant slumber to the scent of a warm brioche smothered in marmalade and fresh creamery butter, you'll understand that life is not solely composed of tasks, but tastes.Īnd I would have gotten her number if you hadn't turned the evening into a guided tour of the Louvre! Where you come from, toast is the result of reflection and study!Īh yes, you mock me. You know why? Because everybody pushes their toast down twice! You know something? Nobody gives a rat's ass that you have to push the toast down twice. Yet, it isnt long before an unlikely romance develops between them. One assumes the General might take pride in his creations instead of just foisting them on an unsuspecting public. Leopold is impossibly polite, Kate is brash and independent. Kate & Leopold Romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan as a business executive who agrees to act as a tour guide for a 19th-century nobleman, who has slipped through a time portal to modern day New York. So, clearly, to make proper toast it requires one and a half insertions, which is something for which the apparatus doesn't begin to allow! One assumes that when the General of Electric built it, he might have tried using it.

Well, of course it's preposterous: Time travel involves so many paradoxes that it is wise, in a romantic comedy like this, to simply ignore them. Well, insertion of bread into that so-called toaster produces no toast at all, merely warm bread! Inserting the bread twice produces charcoal. 'Kate & Leopold' is a preposterous time-travel romance in which the third Duke of Albany leaves the New York of 1876 and arrives in the New York of Meg Ryan.

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