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The Night We Never Met (1993)

The Night We Never Met (1993), directed by Warren Leight, starring Matthew Broderick and Annabella Sciorra.

04/30/1993 BR Comedy and Romance 1h 39m

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A comedy with room for romance.

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Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.

  • John ThomasCinematography
  • Warren LeightDirector, Writer
  • Camilla TonioloEditing
  • Michael PeyserProducer

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The Night We Never Met is a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Warren Leight. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra and Kevin Anderson.

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The Night We Never Met is a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Warren Leight. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra and Kevin Anderson.

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Upset with his current living arrangements, Sam rotates occupancy of a flat with slob Brian and painter Ellen. Each of them gets the apartment to themselves two days each week. Sam and Ellen never see each other, they just leave notes. When Sam and Brian swap their schedules without telling Ellen, she mistakenly believes Brian is the one she's falling in love with.

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Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 56% of nine surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.8/10. Lawrence Cohn of Variety wrote, "A quintessential New York movie, The Night We Never Met takes a novel premise and develops it in fits and starts." Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "The Night We Never Met is never lifelike enough to evoke the madly romantic New York atmosphere it seems to be after. The actors try hard, but they are hamstrung by too many broad strokes and silly inconsistencies."

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The Night We Never Met at Box Office Mojo

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What is The Night We Never Met about?

The Night We Never Met: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Bria…

Who directed The Night We Never Met?

The Night We Never Met was directed by Warren Leight in 1993.

Who stars in The Night We Never Met?

The cast of The Night We Never Met includes Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Christine Baranski and Tim Guinee.

How long is The Night We Never Met?

The Night We Never Met runs for 99 minutes, or 1h39.

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