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Cute Movie Duo: Mandy Moore and the UK Office's Tim
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Cute Movie Duo: Mandy Moore and the UK Office's Tim

They played exes in Dedication, but this time we'll get to see Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman playing a real married couple in the romantic comedy Swinging With the Finkels.
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They played exes in Dedication, but this time we'll get to see Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman playing a real married couple in the romantic comedy Swinging With the Finkels. All we know so far is that the two will be joined by Jonathan Silverman and Melissa George, who are playing another husband-and-wife team. And Jerry Stiller will also be in the film. The movie is being developed from writer/director Jonathan Newman's short film Sex With the Finkels, which debuted on the website Filmaka.

Martin Freeman will probably always be Tim (the precursor to Jim) on the original UK series The Office, a role that he made completely adorable. And Moore is just so cute, too. It will be funny to see these two, I'm guessing, deal with the idea of being a swinging couple. Cute and a little weird, probably.

First Look: Mandy Moore, Billy Crudup in Dedication
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First Look: Mandy Moore, Billy Crudup in Dedication

There hasn't been much of a publicity push for Dedication, a strange little indie romantic dramedy starring Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup, which can sometimes be a very good sign.
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There hasn't been much of a publicity push for Dedication, a strange little indie romantic dramedy starring Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup, which can sometimes be a very good sign. After all, the last two movies I saw with Moore in them (Because I Said So, License to Wed) enjoyed major marketing pushes and then turned out to be some of the year's most embarrassing disappointments. For Moore's sake, I hope Dedication is a quality movie so we can see that it's not the actress that was the problem — it was the material.

Crudup plays Henry Roth, a peculiar, misanthropic and slightly unstable man who requires certain things (like sleeping with heavy objects resting on his body) to feel safe. Henry writes children's books that inform children of Santa Claus' nonexistence. When his best friend and book illustrator dies, Henry is paired with a new illustrator, the young, pretty Lucy (Moore), who possesses a quirkiness of her own. The two struggle to get along, and surely a kind of love starts to bloom between them. Amy Sedaris and Martin Freeman (the original Tim from the BBC "Office"!) also star. Dedication opens in limited release August 24, so to watch the trailer, read more