Rumor Has It...

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Rumor Has It...

Promotional poster for Rumor Has It
Directed by Rob Reiner
Produced by Ben Cosgrove,
Paula Weinstein
Written by Ted Griffin
Starring Jennifer Aniston
Kevin Costner
Shirley MacLaine
Mark Ruffalo
Mena Suvari
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) December 25, 2005
Running time 96 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Rumor Has It... (also known as Rumour Has It... in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia) is a 2005 comedy film. It stars Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner and is directed by Rob Reiner. It was released in North America on December 25, 2005.

The entire movie is told as a flashback to events that happened in 1997. Sarah's grandmother, Katharine Richelieu (Shirley MacLaine), had an affair with the much younger Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner). This relationship supposedly formed the inspiration for The Graduate, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.

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Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), travels from New York City, where she is an obituary and wedding announcement writer, to Pasadena for her sister, Annie's (Mena Suvari) wedding. She is accompanied by her fiancé, Jeff Daly (Mark Ruffalo) who is worried by Sarah's reluctance to wear her engagement ring. During the trip, Sarah talks to her grandmother at the pre-wedding party and finds out that her mother ran off to Mexico for a week before her own wedding to Sarah's father. Jeff then points out her parents' wedding was nine months before her own birth. After talking with her mother's best friend, she finds out her mother might have slept with prep school classmate Beau Burroughs. Sarah then discovers that her mother and grandmother might have been the inspiration for the novel The Graduate.

The timing of Jocelyn's possible affair with Beau, as well as her sense that she does not fit in with the rest of her family, lead Sarah to suspect Beau may be her biological father. Determined to find out more about Beau and her mother's past, she decides not to fly back home to New York, but to confront Beau in San Francisco, where Beau was giving a speech. (She inadvertently takes Jeff's cell phone with her in the process.) She meets Beau, who admits he had an affair with Jocelyn, but that he could not have been Sarah's father, since Beau suffered "blunt testicular trauma" while playing in a high school soccer game. Disappointed, Sarah begins to cry. Beau, wanting to cheer her up, takes her out for drinks. The two have sex later that evening.

At first guilt-stricken by her behavior, Sarah eventually agrees to be Beau's date at a charity ball. She is horrified to met Beau's son there. Confronting Beau, Sarah accuses him of lying. Beau explains that his son's mother wanted a biological child so got artificially inseminated to become pregnant. Beau also tells Sarah that his son does not know this and asks her not to repeat the information. Mollified, Molly kisses Beau. She is caught mid-kiss by Jeff, who had been trying to reach her. During the ensuing argument, Sarah continues to express reluctance to be with Jeff, who then leaves Sarah.

Dejected, Sarah returns to visit her grandmother, who flies into a rage when she learns Beau has slept with her. While at her grandmother's house, her father calls, as Annie has suffered an anxiety attack while flying to her honeymoon and wants to talk to Sarah. Sarah then reveals that the relationship that three generations of Richelieu women have had with Beau. She then reassures Annie that she is truly in love with her husband, Scott. At this point, Sarah realizes she is truly in love with Jeff and wishes to marry him.

Beau drives up, and is confronted by both Katharine and Sarah, who accuse him of chasing Jocelyn's ghost. At this point, Earl comes outside and reveals that he was the soccer player that administered the "blunt testicular trauma" to Beau. Beau leaves shortly thereafter.

Sarah and Earl see Annie and Scott off on their "second" honeymoon, and while talking, Earl reveales that he knew, all along, about Jocelyn and Beau's affair. Jocelyn returned to Earl, despite Beau being fun, because Earl was someone she could build a life with. It was on the night that Jocelyn returned to Earl that Sarah was conceived.

Determined to win Jeff back, Sarah flies back to New York City and tells Jeff of her feelings. They eventually make up, on the condition that if they have a daughter, that she be allowed nowhere near Beau. As the movie closes, we see Sarah and Jeff's wedding.

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[edit] Soundtrack

Nellie McKay recorded 6 tracks for the film:

  • Black Sheep
  • BB Blues
  • Just One Of Those Things
  • Pasadena Girl
  • Face of a Faith
  • Baby, You've Got What It Takes

It was released exclusively on iTunes. Curiously, another track of McKay's appeared on her Pretty Little Head album entitied "We Had It Right," in which she sings "Rumor had it wrong." It is unknown if the track, which would have been written around the same time period, was ever connected to the film or its soundtrack.

[edit] References

  • Article in November 13, 2005 Arts & Entertainment section of the Orange County Register

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Films directed by Rob Reiner
This Is Spınal Tap (1984) · The Sure Thing (1985) · Stand by Me (1986) · The Princess Bride (1987) · When Harry Met Sally... (1989) · Misery (1990) · A Few Good Men (1992) · North (1994) · The American President (1995) · Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) · The Story of Us (1999) · Alex & Emma (2003) · Rumor Has It... (2005) · The Bucket List (2007)