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Reese, Stiller Sign On For Cameron Crowe Comedy

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From: www.getthebigpicture.net

It's hard not to wish for a good film from Cameron Crowe, whose career started with plenty of them and then took a major step backwards in 2001 with Vanilla Sky, although the death knell rang much louder in 2005's Elizabethtown. Likewise, it's hard not to wish for roles of considerable substance for Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar and hasn't amounted to much since.

Somehow, I don't think teaming up is going to do the trick.

In what Variety calls a "romantic comedy adventure," Witherspoon will co-star with Ben Stiller in Crowe's next film for Columbia, which reportedly beat out four other studios for the project.

All we really know is that the project will be contemporary...and that it very likely will have a really tasty soundtrack.

Unfortunately, I don't like the mix. I certainly don't believe Stiller's hammy antics work in a Cameron Crowe comedy, and even though I like Witherspoon - who would've been really good in the Kirsten Dunst role in Elizabethtown, regardless of the overall success of the movie - I think we've had plenty of coats of her romantic comedy paint over the years.

I also don't think the chemistry between the stars is very natural. For a guy like Crowe, who has written some of the big screen's best relationship dialogue in the last quarter century, that's a big thing to overcome.

Can Crowe make another great film? Absolutely; he has too much skill and he's too good with words and characters to be counted out. Do I get a good vibe from this one? Nope.

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