Product Description

Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) is a 25-year-old self-proclaimed "jerk magnet." After determining not to spend the rest of her life as "the easy chick," she gets involved in a romantic triangle with 2 great guys (2004 Tony winner Brian F. O'Byrne and "Lost's" Naveen Andrews), only to discover that love is anything but easy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10652 in DVD
• Brand: GAIAM MEDIA
• Released on: 2005-03-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Features

• Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) is a 25-year-old self-proclaimed jerk magnet. After determining not to spend the rest of her life as the easy chick, she gets involved in a romantic triangle with 2 great guys (2004 Tony winner Brian F. O Byrne and Lost s Naveen Andrews), only to discover that love is anything but easy. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR Age: 025192

Customer Reviews

Love is never Easy... Just some info on the DVD
This is a delightful romantic comedy with a very engaging main actress (Marguerite Moreau). After spending years as a "jerk magnet", she is about to quit the dating scene when lo and behold, two decent guys with real potential come along. Like they say, "it never rains but it pours". She is then faced with the opposite problem of deciding which guy would be the better choice. While watching it, I didn't really know how things would turn out because both guys she was into were actually quite likeable. Fortunately everything ends happily. Well it is a romantic comedy. :)

I thought customers might want to know the specs for this DVD seeing as Amazon has continued its bad habit of omitting tech specs from newer releases. The DVD is by Screen Media Films. It is in it's original aspect ratio of 1.85.1 (enhanced for widescreen TV). Colors are accurate. There is quite a bit of film grain but not too distracting. My only quibble with the presentation is that black levels are closer to a dull grey so that the transfer lacks a sense of depth and richness. Soundwise it's in 2.0 and 5.1 surround with pretty decent sound reproduction. There are no close captions or subtitles contrary to what it says on the backcover and on Amazon.

All in all a very enjoyable movie. Definitely worth a viewing.

Moreau Gives a Star Making Performance
EASY is a big surprise. On paper, it is a rather simple story. A woman, tired of being seen as the "easy" girl, decides to try to be celibate for 90 days. Sounds like the rather awful Josh Hartnett film 40 DAYS 40 NIGHTS? It isn't.

But, the cast really makes this one work. Marguerite Moreau gives a star making performance as the lead. I had never heard of her before seeing this film, now I am looking forward to her next film.

The rest of the cast is terrific as well, filled with familiar actors, whose names may not be that familiar. Naveen Andrews (TV's LOST) and Brian F. O'Byrne (the priest in MILLION DOLLAR BABY) play her two boyfriends. D.B. Woodside (TV's BUFFY and 24) plays a neighbor. And Emily Deschanel (Zooey's look alike older sister) plays her sister. They all make this a very entertaining feature.

The film may not be anything groundbreaking, but it is a refreshing change.

The DVD has no extras beyond filmographies for the cast.

Couldn't wait for it to end
I generally enjoy quirky little independent films about modern relationships, but Easy is an exception. It seems to have been marketed as a romantic comedy and, to be fair, there a few nicely comic moments along the way. Unfortunately, the amusing bits would not make up an episode of a tv sitcom. Most of the film is a fairly predictable soap opera with moderately explicit sex scenes which seem to suggest that woman on top is the new missionary position.

The leading character is pleasant enough. Her offbeat nature is underlined by her ridiculous job - the sort that only people in movies have. The composition of the rest of the cast screams political correctness and everyone seems to love everybody else regardless of race, creed, or lack of attractiveness. The problem is that I found it difficult to care about any of them. The rather forced emotions of the script made involvement with them impossible. By the time the happy ending is reached, I found myself thinking: "You could have done that an hour ago." Possibly, some of the problem is mine - I suspect I am not part of the film's target audience. Even so, Easy is nothing special and offers nothing new. It's all been done before and done much better.