Somehow it took Rudd a good ten years to reunite with his Clueless collaborator Amy Heckerling, in the director's romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman. Hecklering used her own experiences as a a 40-year old divorced mother who works as a scriptwriter and producer to write about Michelle Pfeiffer's Rosie, who is... well, all those things. Paul Rudd is Adam, an actor several years Rosie's junior who she takes a shine to her whilst auditioning for a new part in her crappy TV show. So the film becomes a romantic comedy of errors where Rosie doubts their suitability, thanks to the age gap, and the budding couple try not to become gossip fodder. At least, that's what it seems like the film's going for. Heckerling's script feels like it needed a redraft, and perhaps a higher budget, because it instead feels like a rushed rehearsal for a TV pilot with Rudd's character particularly underwritten. He doesn't even get to be all that funny, just a pretty face in need of a personality transplant.
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