It Had to Be You

2000

Comedy / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 2920 2.9K

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Plot summary

Sparks fly when Anna Penn and Charlie Hudson meet. Unfortunately, they're both engaged to other people. In fact, they're staying at the same New York City hotel in order to work on wrapping up the last details of their nuptials. Over days and evenings of joint wedding planning, the two grow closer -- and start to wonder if they're getting married to the right people after all.

Director

Steven Feder Photo
Steven Feder

Top cast

Natasha Henstridge Photo
Natasha Henstridge as Anna Penn
Faith Prince Photo
Faith Prince as Madelaine
Michael Vartan Photo
Michael Vartan as Charlie Hudson
Emmy Rossum Photo
Emmy Rossum as Young Girl
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
884.52 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.6 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by filmbuffed 7 / 10

Enjoyed this movie. Sweet with a good hook.

As we all know a romantic comedy is the genre with the ending already known. The two leads always have to get together. Late in the third act I was trying to figure out how this will wrap up and how they will end up together. A clue was given right from the start, but you'll never realize it until the end. It's a simple hook, but it works. It Had To Be You cover a lot of the usual ground, but takes a fresh spin when ever possible. I liked all the NY characters and I loved the locations. It's a postcard of NY. Also it was nice to watch a film and not find anything offensive in it. So, if you like a good old fashion romantic movie ... then this is for you.
Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 5 / 10

That's it? That's the big juice?

Rom-coms are notoriously hard to get right, when one such genre piece is all but a direct to DVD offering it really doesn't bode well for a good film. It Had To Be You isn't a great film, but it's the sort of sweet and harmless piece that fills a time slot when you are stuck for a viewing one afternoon.Natasha Henstridge {Anna} and Michael Vartan {Charlie} play two pretty people, who are soon to be married to other people, who get to know each other in the course of planning their respective weddings in the Big Apple. Cue pretty people clearly meant to be together unable to do so out of loyalty to their respective, and clearly wrong for them, intended aisle walking partners. Cue best friends involved, gags and set ups come and go and the ending is never really in doubt. There's even time for some demon exorcising thrown in for added emotional impact.If that sounds cheekily simple in summary? Then that's because it's befitting the film. It's a simple tale that's been told many times before, both better and worse than this. Vartan and Nat fail to generate much chemistry yet remain charming throughout, and the comedy is good enough to raise a smile or two. Particularly from Michael Rispoli & Olivia d'Abo as the couple's best friends. It's decently shot and unobtrusively directed, while that obvious ending still has the ability to warm the cockles of even the coldest of hearts. Should have been better for sure, but by no means a time waster in the basic sense of the saying. 5.5/10
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