Fools Rush In

1997

109 Min

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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DIR Andy Tennant

CAST Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gómez, Tomas Milian, Siobhan Fallon, John Bennett Perry, Stanley DeSantis, Suzanne Snyder, Anne Betancourt, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis

It’s all about chemistry when uptight New Yorker Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) and blithe-spirited Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) spend one passionate night together in Las Vegas just hours after meeting. The next morning, they go their separate ways and don’t see each other until three months later — when Isabel realizes she’s pregnant. Alex and Isabel decide to get married, but the honeymoon ends when their families meet and cultures clash.

Director

Andy Tennant

Andy Tennant (born 1955) is an American screenwriter, film and television director, and dancer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Tennant was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, he spent his summers on Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. He graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973. He studied theater under John Houseman at University of Southern California.

Tennant’s first acting role in a motion picture was in 1980 as a college student, Melio, on an all-night scavenger hunt in a surreal film, Midnight Madness which cameo’d cowboy-hatted Pee Wee Herman as a pin ball arcade manager; Andy’s first big break in films came when he was cast as a dancer and chorus member in the movies Grease and Grease 2.

Tennant is married to Sharon Johnson-Tennant. They have four children, three of which are… read more