THE SMALL-BUDGET INDIE THAT’S PICKING A FIGHT WITH "FIFTY SHADES"
G
et ready to rrrr-rumble! In this
corner, the heavyweight
Cineplex champ FIFTY SHADES
OF GREY – the best selling soft porn
about a naïve heroine and a tortured
leading man who likes his women that
way too. In this corner, OLD FASHIONED,
in which two souls who are 50 shades of
jaded try to build a love to last.
This Valentine’s 2015, romance-minded
moviegoers can choose between the
girl-meets-bondage story of FIFTY
SHADES OF GREY, in which a couple
explores their dark desires, or its polar
opposite, OLD FASHIONED, about two
broken people coming out of the dark
into real love
OLD FASHIONED is the story of a
former frat boy and a free-spirited
woman who together attempt the
impossible: an “old-fashioned”
courtship in contemporary America.
“The timing of it all definitely
provides a stark contrast—and that’s the
point,” OLD FASHIONED
writer/director/star Rik Swartzwelder
said. “The conversation should be
pushed. Not all fantasy is harmless and
not all paths lead to true and lasting love.
We have two movies here, both about
people with troubled pasts . . . but both
taking very different approaches to
getting romance right.”
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