When faced with a sure-to-be juggernaut sci-fi box office spectacular like “Avatar,” Hollywood has learned that the best thing they can do is offer up some counter-programming. It worked last summer when “Made of Honor” put butts in the seats of theaters not showing “Iron Man,” and the Warner Bros. rom com “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” offered an option for ladies who really weren’t interested in seeing “Wolverine” this summer.
This week, Columbia Pictures is rolling the dice, putting “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” up against James Cameron’s “Avatar.” And in spite of having an unnecessary and overly long name, it just might work out for them.
Paul and Meryl Morgan (Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker) are both successful New York businesspeople who have been separated for three months, divorce pending. After having dinner to try and patch things up, they witness a Mafia hit and are forced to go into the witness protection program. Whisked away from Manhattan and dropped in the middle of Wyoming, the uptight couple must learn to live together again.
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