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Forget Paris

Forget Paris

Comedy · Drama · Romance · 1995

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

Movie details

Forget Paris

“A comedy about love...after marriage.”

1995 Comedy · Drama · Romance 1h 41m

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

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Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Billy Crystal

Written by

Billy Crystal · Lowell Ganz · Babaloo Mandel

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal

Mickey Gordon

Debra Winger

Debra Winger

Ellen Andrews Gordon

Joe Mantegna

Joe Mantegna

Andy

Cynthia Stevenson

Cynthia Stevenson

Liz

Richard Masur

Richard Masur

Craig

Julie Kavner

Julie Kavner

Lucy

John Spencer

John Spencer

Jack

Court is in session

Put Forget Paris on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.