Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans? Features a philandering New York lawyer named Paul Morgan (Hugh Grant) on the outs with his wife Meryl (Sarah Jessica Parker) the Big Apple’s go-to Realtor. While negotiating marital peace they witness a murder that lands them in the witness protection program. They’re sequestered in a Wyoming hamlet with Clay Wheeler (Sam Elliott) the town Sheriff and his pistol packin’ wife Emma (Mary Steenburgen). The town’s slow pace is torture for the couple used to measuring time in Manhattan minutes but this eventually aids in healing the relationship. Will it survive however when Vincent (Michael Kelly) the assassin discovers their whereabouts. Did You Hear About the Morgans? is a film you may very well have already heard about although it may have been under a different title – there’s a lot here we’ve found endearing in other movies. What seems to make this ménage-a-sitcom work is High Grant. The irony of his disastrous personal peccadilloes is not lost here and probably gave him something to draw on as an unfaithful husband trying to win back his wife. Sarah Jessica Parker can thank Grant for providing the much needed chemistry not always present for her when cast in a romantic comedy. Also of note are Hamilton Ontario’s fresh faced Kim Shaw as the vacuous Nurse Kelly and another couple equally at odds, personal aids to Paul and Meryl, Adam Feller (Jesse Liebman) and Jackie Drake (Elisabeth Moss) who hold down the ivory tower forts while the two incognito cowboys get homey on the range.