After Andrew's wife was upset about his friend brought about Sarah used be his girlfriend and she thinks he still loves her after ten years. And she cought both them kissing and believe there rekindle romance, then left for filming a film. And Andrew knew his marriage was over and Sarah wasn't interest of her married boyfriend. Did Andrew and Sarah rekindle there love or just being friends again?
shareGood thought. I think they had obviously been close enough on an emotional level to understand how each other thought - that is why Andrew can put into words things about Sarah that she doesn't really want to hear. Like when he tells her she's addicted to romance - I think it irritates her that they know each other (or once knew each other) so well that he can still see how she works after all that time.
Funny thing is, my interpretation is that, if either of those couples could have got back together after the end, it might have been Andrew and Carol. Brian drove me nuts - he tried too hard to be funny, put his foot in it at every opportunity and just seemed to have no proper purpose. Of all the characters, I liked him the least - I couldn't find anything to understand about him. Maybe the only purpose of Brian was to help Sarah break her cycle of getting into relationships and getting cold feet when it got serious? (At least, that is what I understood Andrew's comments to mean.)
But I think with Andrew and Carol, she was jealous in a way of these strong friendships he still had. It seems like he has seen very little of them since leaving university and she obviously feels excluded somehow - I suspect perhaps she didn't go into further education? Perhaps she feels intimidated by all these Cambridge graduates and her over the top behaviour is her way of making her presence felt. Perhaps Carol was insecure when she found out Andrew's ex-girlfriend was amongst them.
Interestingly, both Brian and Carol have trouble trusting their current partners - Carol gets upset knowing Sarah used to go out with Andrew and Brian flies off the handle just because he sees Sarah talking to Paul.
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."
But I think with Andrew and Carol, she was jealous in a way of these strong friendships he still had. It seems like he has seen very little of them since leaving university and she obviously feels excluded somehow - I suspect perhaps she didn't go into further education? Perhaps she feels intimidated by all these Cambridge graduates and her over the top behaviour is her way of making her presence felt. Perhaps Carol was insecure when she found out Andrew's ex-girlfriend was amongst them.
I've seen this film a few times and I could never understand what Andrew saw in Carol. IMO, they had zero chemistry, they seemed world's apart--no wonder she really didn't fit into his group of friends from Cambridge.
I think part of my problem with Carol is the odd casting choice of Rita Rudner. Perhaps the Carol/Andrew pairing might have felt realistic or believable if someone with more talent had played Carol. Rudner is a great stand-up comic, but I didn't find her at all believable in this film. Her portrayal just doesn't work for me.
You know, I think you're right. I once read a review on here that said that you can see which relationships have to break up to get us to only the original six friends by the end of the film.
I think that is one of the flaws of this film (as much as I like it) is that, timeframe wise, you have three "days" (at least that's how long Mary tells her baby Ben she'll be away for at the start) to divide the script into to get to the end.
And the problem is, a lot of the backstory of each character (Peter, Roger and Mary, Sarah, Andrew, Carol, not so much Maggie - not much is said of her university days, I can only guess she was like me and never got a boyfriend or had a sex life in the whole three years!) has to be told through words, not actions. So all you're really left with, with Andrew and Carol is his explanation that "I owe her a lot, she hired me when other agents wouldn't touch me" - did he marry her out of gratitude? Did it make a good Hollywood story? Was it convenience - an actor marrying his agent?
It seems to me like both Andrew and Carol hoped to hit the big time and never really did - we see how excited they are (and how rehearsed the "you must come and visit us" speech is) when that woman approaches them at the airport. By the sound of it, Carol's "Who's In The Kitchen" is not exactly prime-time TV - it is shown when the airport woman's kids have come in from school at 4pm. Andrew and Carol seem to have, not exactly delusions of grandeur, but they hope that if they act like stars, they will become big stars. And it obviously isn't going to happen - either they haven't got the talent or they haven't got the contacts. (Maybe this explains Andrew's reference to the fact that both have had or do have drinking problems. Carol also says she used to be bulimic but seems to be a compulsive exerciser - these point to me towards people who are either trying to escape reality or don't have much control over their lives.)
As you say, we don't really get much idea how Andrew and Carol got together - my guess is that she is not very academic and this is OK when they are in Hollywood, but back in Britain once he's mixing with his old uni friends ("the cast of Masterpiece theatre" as Carol calls them) maybe she thinks he will feel he is happier in more "academic" company.
Although none of the friends have got what sounds like high paying employment - Roger and Mary write jingles, Maggie seems to work in publishing, Sarah says she is costuming a play that Brian is acting in, Andrew is seemingly a scriptwriter (?) and Peter's job isn't really mentioned. All their jobs seem a bit like they must be living hand-to-mouth, hoping to get the next jingle/acting role/ wardrobe position in a play etc in order to get any kind of payment. But even so, I think Carol feels that, once Andrew is back amongst his old friends, he will start to see her as a bit stupid - whether he would I'm not sure, but those two are so good at putting an act on that it's only in private that you see how much they argue. (And they seem to argue because Carol is insecure.)
I do agree with you that perhaps a different actress may have brought something more to Carol - contrasting her and Andrew with Roger and Mary, you can see Roger and Mary have been through some hard times and evidently one or the other has considered leaving (or expected the other to leave) because of the stress of losing baby Simon but they evidently have something which holds them together. Perhaps it is the casting - as I say, the two characters I have least sympathy for or find it hardest to relate to are Carol and Brian. Carol puts on such a show (possibly from years of cultivating a "public" personality for TV) and Brian acts like such an idiot (but Brian could be down to the writing - one way or the other, I am glad when he leaves).
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."
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I think you've got a point about the film trying too hard - maybe this is where my problem with Brian comes from. I think he is supposed to be part of the "comedy" element but I just can't see why he's funny and it seems none of the other characters can either. Because he is always being funny at inappropriate moments or being flippant at "nice" moments. (Like after the rest of them did that fantastic version, probably much rehearsed at university, of The Way You Look Tonight and Brian then asked that they did the coffee jingle - on different levels it made him annoying. Roger hadn't wanted to sing it originally - maybe he is embarrassed or self-conscious about having no better opportunity to show his talents than a 30 second coffee advert? - but Brian just nagged him to. On another level, it showed complete lack of appreciation from Brian that the group could remember their exact performance from ten years before and turn out a great song - the song they sang (while not their own) was much more suited to the occasion than Roger's coffee jingle might have been.)
Interesting also what you say about Andrew "selling out" - I think you're right. Speaking as an artist myself, I can imagine that Andrew had a theoretical choice between being a traditional actor (probably not working all the time but getting paid for what work he did) in more serious and worthy projects (plays, theatre, maybe TV etc) and the Hollywood opportunity which meant he was guaranteed money for creating something that didn't really stretch his creative skills. And he took the money.
I find that particularly pertinent in my own life as I am a freelance photographer and artist - I have got a degree but I am working for myself. Admittedly my income is inconsistent and patchy and part of me thinks it would be so easy to just find myself a job (I would have more money and a secure income) but I wouldn't be able to structure my working time as I wanted to. And it strikes me that this is how Andrew could have been had he not gone to Hollywood - he could have been free to pick and choose good acting parts (although one might only come along every six months and he might have to budget to the last penny all the time) that stretched him and made better use of his talents.
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."
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Just a small thing to the poster who said they all seem to be living hand to mouth - I disagree.
I don't think Roger was kidding when he said that the 10 second jingle that Brian made up on the spot might net him about 12 million pounds, and that was 17 years ago. Roger and Mary are the number one jingle writers in England. I'm sure they're very rich.
And Carol and Andrew - Carol said that the only reason they didn't buy a brand new "English manor" in California was because Andrew didn't like the idea, not because they couldn't afford it. I think they're rich too.
And Peter is apparently independently wealthy.
Maggie seems to have a good job in publishing. Sarah seems to have at least a somewhat successful carrer in costume design.
I agree, ELlemeno. None of them seems to be doing badly financially at all, most especially Peter, Andrew and his wife, and Roger and Mary.
shareDid Andrew and Sarah rekindle their love or just being friends again? Andrew and Sarah never stopped loving each other and they've never stopped being friends.... what has stood between Andrew and Sarah has been space and time.
Does Andrew still love Sarah? Yes.
•Sarah was not just his girlfriend, but she was Andrew's fiancee. They were engaged to be married. It is apparent that their split was not due to bitterness or anger. It seems their split was because Sarah was not ready.
•Andrew and Sarah ponder the question of what their lives would be like if they had not split up.
•When Sarah point blank asks Andrew if he and Carol love each other, he could not simply say "yes." Instead, he goes on to explain that he owes her and is grateful to her concerning his career. Sarah earnestly asks about this TWICE, once in the morning in the kitchen and then again later that afternoon. So, um, Sarah does tell on herself that she still has feelings for Andrew.
•They share a kiss, comfirming that they both still have feelings for each other. They have unfinished business between them, which could be why Andrew could agree to be in a miserable and platonic marriage to Carol and why Sarah still can't get to that point of an engagement or commitment with anyone else.
•When Carol confronts Andrew about Sarah, he could only say that nothing is going on between him and Sarah not that he doesn't love Sarah anymore. It is revealed in that discussion that Carol and Andrew DO NOT have sex together. It is also revealed in that discussion that Carol has been previously married. Andrew is not intimately attracted to Carol, but was perfectly willing to explore an intimate moment with Sarah, whom Carol catches Andrew kissing.
•During the course of Andrew's discussion with Sarah, where he tells her he has her life figured out, he calls her "Love," as if as far as he is concerned that's her name, "Love." When he talks about Carol, he addresses her as "the woman I almost love" and as his "future ex-wife."
So, to answer your question, yes, Andrew still loves Sarah. The story does not indicate, however, that Andrew and Sarah intend to do anything about that fact though. He still loves her, but that is as far as the story reveals. The story seems to indicate that Andrew will still try to be amiacable with his wife for as long as he is able for now. According to Andrew, they are destined to divorce, but he's not rushing the matter... he just calls her his "future ex-wife."
There would need to be a Peter's Friends Part 2 to discover if Andrew and Sarah get back together again and if Andrew returns to being the romantic Sarah so much adores.
A good title for such a part 2 would be Peter's Friends: The Will of the Manor, which would take place perhaps after Peter has died of complications of AIDS and has re-summoned his friends for the reading of his will. (Peter has HIV where the first movie left off.)