I'm pretty sure this was it.
Posted on 05/20/2010 8:06:02 AM PDT by Sokol
I am looking for a title of a movie (don't remember date of movie). The main plot involved a man and woman corresponding (letter or internet – don’t remember). When they agree to meet, it is in a train station (I think). To make sure he really loves her – not just for her looks – she sends an older unattractive woman ahead and trails behind her. The older woman is dressed in the attire the younger woman described that she (the young woman) would be wearing. If he makes contact with her (despite her appearances) she will know that he is genuine.
I was initially thing that old Tom Hanks/ Meg Ryan movie “You’ve Got Mail” ... but I’m not sure the ugly chick decoy thing happened in that movie. Only saw it once, though.
SnakeDoc
Pippy Longstocking?
I'm pretty sure this was it.
The Book and the Rose: A Max Lucado Story (2001)
...Or that he has a 'thing' for old, ugly chicks.
The movie was is called "Love is Blind, especially after it gouges it's eyes out."
Review from imdb:
Astonishingly good program in all its simplicity.
First viewing, it seems like you have watched simply the most basic love story, "And they all lived happily ever after!!" But then upon second-thought, you realize had he put the book away in the duffel bag and left, without talking to the woman with the rose, he would have never met the woman he wanted to meet in the restaurant.
If he had deemed the gray-haired, doddering old bitty to be beneath him and not actually loved the woman without an image who wrote to him, he never would have met his intended, and she likewise would have perceived him as overly superficial, incapable of loving her beyond her looks.
He is even presented another beautiful woman he could have easily run off with, but this would not be the author of his letters, his pen pal, his Charlotte Bronte, a woman of depth who read Anna Karenina.
The on ly glitch, as anyone who watched the program will attest, was the failure to authenticate the forties look with his friends, all wearing updated shirts and ties, the friend clearly sporting long hair, but not of the forties style.
The women, such as the blind date, Betty, at least wore something close to forties attire.
Thankfully the crucial moment in the station showed proper visual attributes.
I'd like to have heard that conversation. "Hey, Louise... you're, like, pretty old and stuff, and quite unpleasant to look at. Put on these clothes and come down to the train station with me -- I want to figure out just how desperate this dude I've been writing to is."
I believe you are looking for the film “84 Charing Cross Road” with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
A classic indeed, with fantastic character development.
There was also a play based on the book - which is written in epistolary fashion (a book consisting of letters or notes being written to and fro by the main characters).
[Side note: Read “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis for a good epistolary book]
“84 Charing Cross Road” is about an American book collector that regularly corresponds with a book store owner in the UK in search of rare/old books.
They become friends via mail due to their similar interest in books - although the American book collector is married. The wife of the American collector is well aware of the correspondence (which remains platonic).
A great film to enjoy!
In regards to “84 Charing Cross Road” - they do not meet in a train station, but a friend is sent to the place of business while abroad (I don’t want to play spoiler here, even if this is not the correct film you are searching for).
Memorable quote: - "Hey, do my dishes."
I read a short story like this once. However, the guy pulled the same trick. The older couple tottered off to a happy life together and the younger couple never met.
My eyes!
“Oedipus Rex”
—Tom Lehrer
From the Bible to the popular song,
There’s one theme that we find right along.
Of all ideals they hail as good,
The most sublime is Motherhood.
There was a man, oh, who it seems,
Once carried this ideal to extremes.
He loved his mother and she loved him,
And yet his story is rather grim.
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex.
You may have heard about his odd complex.
His name appears in Freud’s index
‘Cause he loved his mother.
His rivals used to say quite a bit,
That as a monarch he was most unfit.
But still and all they had to admit
That he loved his mother.
Yes he loved his mother like no other.
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother.
One thing on which you can depend is,
He sure knew who a boy’s best friend is!
When he found what he had done,
He tore his eyes out one by one.
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother.
So be sweet and kind to Mother,
Now and then have a chat.
Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat.
But maybe you had better let it go at that!
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex,
And you may end up like Oedipus.
I’d rather marry a duck-billed platypus,
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex.
It really wouldn't make much of a difference. There just is no way to satisfy a woman.
A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:
Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs.
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.'
So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.
'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.
'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!'
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.
PLEASE NOTE:
To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.
The first floor has wives that love sex.
The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer.
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.
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