How this movie went straight to DVD (or iTunes movie release) is both tragic and understandable. For most people, a movie about a couple successful writers who were once lovers finding each other and searching for their "voices" again might not be a big box-office draw.
I felt differently. Purple Violets was about growing up and looking back. Realizing who you are, where you came from, how you've changed, and how you actually haven't. It's about how deep down inside, those characteristics that give someone their spark, never really go away; they may morph a bit but who a person truly is, not what they've done, is who they are.
Led by a phenomenal cast including Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Edward Burns (who also directed), and the always surprising Debra Messing, the movie moves through this self-discovery at a pleasant and yet still intriguing pace. The writing is great and the dialog and wit is both true and amusing.
One of my favorite exchanges occurs between Messing, who plays a teacher, and Burns, her ex-boyfriend from college and now successful litigator. After she tells him he's taking her to someplace nice and expensive and he inquires to why, she retorts, "Because I'm a teacher in New York and you just bought a $3 million apartment." Truer words have never been spoken.
See this movie and see a little of yourself. Put in on a shelf for a few years, watch it again, and I bet you'll see a little more. That's what I'm going to do.
Sergio del Limónar
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