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Rumor has it this film is all wrong

If you regret having missed the romantic comedies of last year, fear not: you can catch up with them for the price of one ticket

By A.O. Scott  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

Buried deep inside this misbegotten project is the glimmer of an idea -- about the consequences of the sexual revolution, maybe, or the triumph of the suburbs, or the way novels and films borrow from and infiltrate real life. As MacLaine sourly says toward the soggy end of Rumor Has It, "Wrong movie!" That's an understatement; this picture is at least six wrong movies in one.

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