Video Review

Rowing with the Wind

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley

A ''haunting tale of mystery and murder''? The only thing remotely frightening about this ancient costume drama Rowing with the Wind, a 19th-century affair made in long-ago 1987, is the pouffy hair Grant sports as Lord Byron in his Don Juan heyday. The curiosity factor rules: Grant and Hurley met while making this film for director Gonzalo Suarez, so it's amusing to watch them frolic. False advertising aside, it's as diverting as anything on A&E. B-

Originally posted May 28, 1999 Published in issue #487 May 28, 1999 Order article reprints

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