Laws of Attraction (2004)

This romantic-comedy (and I use the word comedy very loosely) is about competing lawyers falling in love -- the sort of story that Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn could complete before breakfast.  The trouble is that Pierce Brosnan is no Tracy although he does have a certain self-effacing charm and that Julianne Moore is very definitely no Hepburn.  In fact I wonder if she is capable of playing comedy at all. I have no complaints at all about her abilities in dramatic roles but she seemed to be almost embarrassed at trying to create a lighter persona.  Frances Fisher as her mother (and surely the age gap between them is insufficient) could have given her lessons in quirky charm.