• Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Release Date: 05/09/2008
  • Running Time: 118 mins
  • Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
  • Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Stern, Valerie Mahaffey, Claire Brosseau, Hendrik Jansen, Kate Miles, Derek Riddell, Daniela Saioni, Pierre Stafrace
  • Producer: Joan Carr-Wiggin, David Gordian, Damita Nikapota
  • Writer: Joan Carr-Wiggin
  • Distributor: Palisades Pictures
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Box Office

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  2. Quantum of Solace, 67.5 million, 67.5 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 35.0 million, 116.9 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. Role Models, 11.2 million, 37.6 million
  7. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 5.7 million, 84.2 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Changeling, 4.3 million, 27.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Zack and Miri, 3.1 million, 26.5 million
  13. Soul Men, 2.4 million, 9.4 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. The Secret Life of Bees, 2.3 million, 33.6 million
  17. Saw V, 1.8 million, 55.4 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 1.6 million, 90.9 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

A Previous Engagement

A Previous Engagement arrives too late to expose the secret lives of mothers. The secret—that older women like sex too—is not only out, it has long been fodder for film, theater, literature, and most recently the bottom feeders of reality TV. Julia, a Seattle librarian played by Juliet Stevenson, is bored to death of her jigsaw-puzzle-obsessed husband Jack (Daniel Stern). She persuades him to take a vacation to Malta, where she plans to keep a 25-year-old date with her first love, Alex (Tcheky Karyo). Turns out the attraction is still there, despite wrinkles, failed ambitions, and the presence of significant others. (Alex has also brought along a complication, thirtysomething lover/assistant Samantha.) Convinced that Julia is the love of his life, Alex forces a confrontation between the married couple. Meanwhile, Julia’s petulant daughters arrive in Malta to show that mom’s life back home is a nightmare of mind-numbing domestic responsibilities. Written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin, the movie is alternately contrived (why would debonair Frenchman Alex continue to pursue Julia after several rude rejections?) and on-the-nose (as when Julia’s rendezvous reignites her artistic creativity)—adding up to a cookie-cutter romantic comedy in which Julia must chose between her two men. Nevertheless, Stevenson manages to deliver a few impressively poignant moments of nostalgia for the pleasures of youth against the stunning backdrop of the Maltese coastline. — Tatyana Gershkovich

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