And there's more funny moments from the desperate Ethan-chasing Claire, played by Ashley Williams. He's a skirt-chasing lothario in the form of a skaterboi. Marcus (Steve Howey) didn't look at all what I thought he would look like - in fact when he was introduced on screen as 'this is Marcus', I nearly said out loud: 'oh, no he's not'. His wealthy parents (Geoff Pierson and Jill Eikenberry) play a quick but important role in explaining why Dex can't just call off the wedding.Īnd Krasinski, of course, adds most of the comic touches and perhaps earns Ethan more screen time than he got in the book. While Egglesfield is perhaps a little too much like a chiselled soapie actor, he comes across essentially as a nice guy and you can see why two very different friends have both fallen for him. Goodwin you can relate to as the good-girl heroine who has always watched her best friend get everything she wants. All play the characters pretty much as I imagined them - Hudson, in particular, nails the self-centred Darcy perfectly. The casting of Ginnifer Goodwin as Rachel, Kate Hudson as her best friend Darcy, Colin Egglesfield as Darcy's fiance and John Krasinski as Rachel's confidante Ethan works well. So it was perhaps fitting that on May 1 - as International Chick Lit Month kicked off - I was sitting in a cinema, nervously hoping that this fantastic book got its just treatment as a movie.

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