Blessed
Blessed
R | 13 December 2004 (USA)
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Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.

Reviews
CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
ninja_superstar-1 This film is either disgusting and depressing or absolutely hilarious. I get the feeling that the director was going for the former, trying to scare women away from fertility clinics. This kind of anti-intellectual, anti-science nonsense is for people terrified of God and the devil. For most people, this is an easy film never to see.Not only that, but the movie is stupid to boot. A fertility clinic in the same building as a cloning facility? Yeah, that's believable. Want to see a pregnant prosthesis so fake looking you'd think Heather Graham made it herself? Well, get yourself some popcorn then. Finally, the mean-spirited non-ending shows contempt for an audience I haven't seen the likes of since Speed 2.
martys-7 This is one of the worse movies I have seen. The script steals the premises from Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, and other movies that were already riping-off originals, while failing to develop its characters or plot remaining contrived, silly, and disjointed. The direction fails to engage us and the acting is pedestrian at best. I rated it one star because on a couple of occasions the photography and sets of New York and the countryside (apparently Romania) were interesting.What a pity this was David Hemming's last movie. He was a great British character actor who became a 60s icon after portraying Thomas, the young handsome photographer in Blow-Up - Antonioni's atmospheric existential opus. Thomas is dissatisfied with his life despite his professional success, material possessions, and sexy young groupies. When he thinks he has witnessed a murder, the nature of reality become questionable while cannabis, wine, and Swinging London's pointless exuberance only add to the blur. Now, that is a movie with ideas, suspense, excellent cinematography, good direction, good acting; Hemmings incarnated Thomas, who underneath his artistic creativity and elegant bohemian style, full of cool arrogance and wit, is just an isolated and vulnerable man wanting something meaningful in his life.It is very sad indeed to see a bloated Hemmings in Blessed, playing a cartoonish tycoon whose pet project is to clone Satan. I guess he needed the money badly - the only reason to be in this stupid movie. You can save your money and your time by staying away from this boring crap.
whpratt1 This story deals with a young couple named Samantha Howard, (Heather Graham) and her husband Craig Howard, (James Purefoy) who are a very happy couple in love and Craig is a writer who finally finds a publisher for his book which will provide excellent financial security. However, the only problem facing this couple is the fact they are having a very hard time having a baby. Eventually, Craig and Samantha find a company that can help them have insemination treatment which helps Samantha have twin babies. Samantha is very happy about her ability to have children but notices that where ever she goes a hooded stranger follows her. As you view this film you will find out just what type of children Samantha gave birth to in this world.
kgwest I tried really hard to give this movie the benefit of the doubt telling myself that any moment now it was going to get better but it just never did. I feel like someone sat down & made a list of a lot of things they wanted to put in a movie. (pretty girl, flash house, cute kids, ancient artifacts etc..) Did them all poorly on the cheep & threw them together with no thought about plot, point or purpose. Both the acting & script left me with no connection to the characters what so ever leaving me feeling like i couldn't care less what happened to them. The end result, a poorly made, budget feeling film lacking any substance at all.