I think people missed the whole point of Joey's character. She is a 23 year old naive girl who is in love. I didn't get the impression that she was dumb or a "bimbo." Just an optimistic person who didn't see anything wrong with marrying a man that she was in love with. I do think she was silly for thinking her parents would just accept their relationship right away.
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With all do respect, I have to disagree about Houghton's portrayal of Joey. Your post is talking about the character, not her portrayal by the actress. I just watched the first half of this film again last night, and I thought her performance was cringeworthy. She delivers lines as if she were mouthing platitudes at a Model UN convention. She was not a highly qualified actress and it shows. To be fair, it was a pretty tough assignment, to act with three screen legends, so perhaps that also tips the scales against her (you see marvellous acting, than amateurish acting, and the comparison makes it all the more obvious). Sorry, no offense to her, but, apart from resembling Hepburn, she was definitely not right for this part.
shareI can't decide whether it is bad acting, awful writing or poor direction or all 3, but Joey seemed more like a 16 year old who had just been invited to the senior prom.
shareExactly, rob_sawyer. You hit the nail on the head.
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I can't decide whether it is bad acting, awful writing or poor direction or all 3, but Joey seemed more like a 16 year old who had just been invited to the senior prom.
I couldn't agree more with the OP. I think her performance was quite good and refreshing. After all, she was supposed to be an upper-class girl with loving, caring parents who taught her to be free, respect people and enjoy life and, moreover, she just met the love of her life. She was perfectly believable, and did a rather good job.
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shareI agree. Joey came across as intelligent, open minded, full of life and youthful optimism, strong-minded and guileless -- just as her parents had raised her, which I felt the script capitalized on to address the issue of the "only 10 days." When John said she made him feel like he came back to life after the years of widowhood, it was believable. Normally I can't sit through movies with women past age 15 portrayed as stereotypically ditsy and immature and so when I read a comment about her being flighty, I was was hesitant to watch the movie, but for some reason, I did not get that impression of her. I do have to admit, she does come across to me as selectively impulsive: reserving her impulsivity to something she really feels strongly about and sticking with it. I did not get the impression she was randomly impulsive about anything that comes along and then bail out when the going gets tough, like some frustratingly impulsive people that have tried my patience in real life.
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