
Billie Golden is a beautiful aspiring Cabaret singer who works as singer in a small club in Queens who lives her life as she was in an old fashioned technicolor movie and dressing up like Audrey Hepburn while her mother is a bitter alcoholic who rejects Billie's way of living and rejecting the advances of Billie's boss and owner, Sal of the club she works in. Billie meets two men in her life that either see her ambitions fulfilled or break her heart. Greg, is a rich stockbrok... (Full plot summary below)
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Billie Golden is a beautiful aspiring Cabaret singer who works as singer in a small club in Queens who lives her life as she was in an old fashioned technicolor movie and dressing up like Audrey Hepburn while her mother is a bitter alcoholic who rejects Billie's way of living and rejecting the advances of Billie's boss and owner, Sal of the club she works in. Billie meets two men in her life that either see her ambitions fulfilled or break her heart. Greg, is a rich stockbroker type who Billie went to school with and makes a strong reconnection with showing her the world of the upper class which include his stuck up friends who don't seem too thrilled that he's in a relationship with Billie. Then there's Elliot, a professional piano player and her teacher who she's at odds with at first as they bicker about a blown job she blames him for. As their relationship from student to love grows, she sees alot more in him as much as he does in her. He sees her talent and passion more than Greg does who simply wants her to be his trophy wife more than anything else. Billie soon starts to face the facts of her dreams giving into Greg's upper class world while also realizing that Elliot is the one that is truly right for her. With her nutty sister Laney and best friend T.J. in tow who are having romantic troubles of their own as well as famed singer Eartha Kitt giving her some much needed advice, Billie goes for what her musical heart beats hoping her dreams will come true.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFilmed in the colors of newborn Technicolor, plotted as a tribute to the conventions of Hollywood romance, filled with standard songs, it's by and for people who love those kinds of movies. Others will find it cliched and predictable, but they won't understand. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasRobert Cary's Anything but Love is that rarity, an hommage to the sweeping Technicolor Hollywood love story of the '40s and '50s that works. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe frustration of this good-hearted, off-key warble of an indie, written by Rose with Robert Cary, who directed, is that the filmmaking pales when compared with the classic elements of 1950s and early '60s romantic musicals to which it pays homage. |
| Village VoiceElizabeth ZimmerIf this is such a cheesy, derivative movie, why did I watch it twice with such delight? Possibly because at its center it's profoundly authentic, and because the star turn by Andrew McCarthy, a moody, mercurial characterization, saves it from fairy-tale bathos. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayPredictable and corny, but to their credit, Cary and Rose strive to make the situation real. |
| Chicago TribuneEllen FoxThe film wears its heart--and its nostalgia--on its sleeve, but while it's clearly made by people who love old Hollywood musicals, it never stoops to being just a vehicle for smug genre references. |
| New York PostLou LumenickComes perilously close to being a vanity production for the obscure singer Isabel Rose, who stars and wrote the autobiographical screenplay with neophyte director Robert Cary, based on her own struggles as a cabaret singer. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrLike many of us who cherish the safe harbor of old movies, Rose and Cary mourn the fact that they don't make 'em like they used to. If they'd paused to ponder why not, they might have a better movie. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumSo lackluster both as an homage and as a story in its own right that I was already forgetting it before it was over. |
| San Francisco ChronicleSteven WinnThis stylized romantic comedy offers limited, largely synthetic rewards. |