Miami Rhapsody
Directed by David Frankel
Written by David Frankel
Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Mia Farrow, Gil Bellows, Antonio Banderas, Mia Farrow
Release Date January 27th, 1995
Published January 27th, 2025
Miami Rhapsody stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Gwyn Marcus, a neurotic, recently engaged, young woman who is struggling with the concept of marriage. She loves her fiancé, Matt (Gil Bellows), but her ideas of marriage have been rocked by the recent problems in the longtime marriage of her parents, Nina (Mia Farrow) and Vic (Paul Mazursky). Dad believes that mom is cheating on him and he’s right. Gwyn confirms that Nina has been sleeping with Antonio (Antonio Banderas), the nurse for Gwyn’s grandmother.
But, it’s not just Gwyn’s parents whose marriage has hit the skids. Gwyn’s little sister, Leslie (Carla Gugino), just got married and over the course of a few weeks the marriage is just about over as Leslie starts cheating on her husband. Speaking of cheating, Gwyn’s older brother, Jordan (Kevin Pollak), cheated on his pregnant wife with the wife of his business partner. All of these infidelities coincide with Gwyn’s engagement to Matt and, naturally, all of the chaos and mistrust, has poor Gwyn questioning whether marriage is worth the hassle and potential heartbreak.
As you can sense from that brief description of the plot, Miami Rhapsody relies on a lot of coincidences. And the plot centers on a lot of characters that we are supposed to like being awful to the people they are supposed to love. Everyone, including Gwyn’s dad, who I’d failed to mention before, is cheating. And Gwyn keeps tripping over everyone’s affairs in the strangest series of coinciding events imaginable for one family. To say that the action of Miami Rhapsody stretches believability is an understatement.
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