Get Well Soon

Mr Vincent Gallo is an absorbing, eye-catching beast. Whilst immediately drawn to his fractured features, it is his concentrated screen presence that you hold in mind. Here he plays Kevin, in the guise of the Bobby Bishop, a late-night talk-show host. Becoming increasingly aware of his frustrating emptiness, he starts to twist free of the ever-pandering agents, artists and parasites that accompany his fame. His thoughts turn to an abandoned love (Courteney Cox), and returning home for a reconciliation, encounters involving and amusing obstacles such as thieves, hookers, imitators, mental patients and the police. This is clearly Vincent's film, from the music to the awakened speech to camera near the end, however Courteney Cox performs admirably and the scenes with her mother are played well. The rest of the cast fill their scenes with delirious energy, although the wonderful talents and Romanian beauty of Elina Lowensohn were not rewarded with enough screen time. Director Justin McCarthy's direction is crisp. He develops the story well, and has framed New York nicely. Keep an eye out for 'Jump', an earlier piece of work.

An enjoyable, but weird film. Liked seeing Ann Meara - a long-time favorite from way back and always like seeing Courtney Cox. BUT, Courtney, you can do better than Vince Gallo! I really couldn't see him as a "popular" talk show host. The guy looks like a rat, with his scuffy beard, every-which-way hair and sloppy clothes. Couldn't casting have shopped around for somebody more believable?

Otherwise the rest of the bunch a crazies was really enjoyable to watch.

Love Gallo, that's gotta be stated up front, that's why I wanted to see this film in the first place. He's great in it, of course, as 'empty' talk show host Bobby Bishop, searching the streets of New York City for his lost true love, Lily (Courtney Cox). There's a lot of other stuff going on as well (a LOT of stuff) - crazy people trying to steal Matthew Broderick's dog (to get closer to Sarah Jessica Parker), Lily's mother (the great Anne Meara), who is - get this - practicing to be a homeless person (just in case), gay boyfriends, insane friends, lying hookers, Bobby's beyond-brown-nosing manager (the fabulous Jeffrey Tambor, who played basically the same role on Gary Shandling's show). I think this is the main reason the movie is just not very satisfying -- there's simply too #$@kin' much going on, for $@#(*&ts sake.

If some of these characters had been left out (like most of them), and we had gotten to focus more on Bobby and his self-destructive-but-trying-oh-so-hard-to-make-it-work character, Get Well Soon would have been a far better movie. Gallo, with all his good/bad-and-everything-inbetween contradictions gloriously blazing in full form, could have easily carried the day.

this is a very poor romantic comedy. it was not very romantic and also not very funny.and Vincent Gallo really annoyed me with gestures, appearance and his voice.Courteney Cox looks very nice as always but she can't do much to save this movie because it just lacks a good screenplay.the story isn't really interesting, the love story isn't much believable as the characters constantly find a new problem why they can't be together when you thought there was none. they love each other, we know it, and they know it but they try to make the film to last a little longer than an hour. and Gallo whining all the time is really horrible. I don't know maybe it's me but I found him very, very annoying in this flick.happy end is of course just a matter of time but the characters try to make the way leading to it as long and as pseudo-philosophical as they can. It is a watchable movie, it has Courteney Cox but that's really everything. if you have a sleepless night and you find it airing on cable it can be a good time killer.

I had not seen any trailers or heard any reviews about this film. I rented it for the sole purpose of seeing one of my favorites, Courteney Cox. The scenes with Cox and her brother & mother are supreme, and she steals the scene when on-screen with Gallo. Good fun, even if just for the guilty joy of watching my favorite "friend" get angry and curse. Well cast and well acted. B+