Love and Other Disasters

Love and Other Disasters
Love and Other Disasters Promotional Movie Poster
Directed by	Alek Keshishian
Produced by	Alek Keshishian Virginie Silla Luc Besson David Fincher
Written by	Alek Keshishian
Starring	Brittany Murphy Santiago Cabrera Matthew Rhys Catherine Tate Stephanie Beacham
Music by	Replicant (as Alexandre Azaria)
Cinematography	Pierre Morel
Edited by	Nick Arthurs
Distributed by	Europa Corp.
Release date	2006
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France / United Kingdom
Language	English

Love and Other Disasters is a 2006 romantic comedy produced by Ruby Film, Europa Corp. and Skyline Films presented at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2008, it had its UK premiere in London as the gala screening for the BFI 22nd London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The director and producer were in attendance. Brittany Murphy portrays an assistant at British Vogue who is the catalyst for a group of young friends as they try to find love. OutFest 2007 presented the film as one of their features.

Emily "Jacks" Jackson, who spent her childhood in America, now lives and works in London, at British Vogue, and shares an apartment with her gay friend Peter Simon, a screenwriter. Afraid to be disappointed by a serious relationship, Jacks prefers to spend her free time with her friends and sleep with her ex-boyfriend, James, whom she doesn't love. Peter, who has never been in a relationship, spends too much time in his dreams and as a result cannot fall in love with a real person. It gets more complicated with the entrance of Paolo, a photography assistant for one of the photographers at Vogue. As the film develops, they come to realize their mistakes and eventually reach their happy endings.