Kat (Debra Messing) is fairly miserable. She’s been invited to a wedding and her ex will be there. Worse yet, she doesn’t have a date, so she does what any woman would do. She hires an escort. Yes, an escort.

Nick (Dermot Mulroney) will be her date. She pays him six thousand dollars and gives him a first-class plane ticket to London to show up and be wonderful, which she figures will make her ex insanely jealous, winning him back (or at least making him feel miserable, which is at least as good).

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I recall watching this on TNT (I think it was TNT) when released and thinking that it was pretty good. I don’t think I had seen it since. I’m glad that we watched it again, because it really is quite an excellent telling of the tale. Even Kenneth Branagh, who I don’t really like, fit perfectly. Normally I find him just a little too self-absorbed. In this case, that’s exactly what was needed. He directed as well, and did a fine job.

Meanwhile, the always excellent Robert de Niro ably filled the body of the creature and actually gave the role some life. Uh, so to speak.

For those who aren’t familiar with the tale, Victor Frankenstein has gone to university to study medicine, only to become obsessed with bestowing life on dead tissue, because his own mother died in childbirth. Unfortunately his own brilliance becomes his downfall, as he spirals into the world of his own making, and when he does create this life, it is to see his own life fall apart around him.

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