Clay (Rik Swartzwelder) and Amber (Elizabeth Ann Roberts) use time together to share perspectives in the movie “Old Fashioned,” from Skoche Films, the love story that opens in response to “Fifty Shades of Grey” this weekend. (Skoche films)While “Fifty Shades of Grey” got an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America in part because of “unusual behavior,” members of the crew that helped make the film “Old Fashioned” laughingly point out their that romantic comedy also features “unusual behavior.”
In their case, it’s a man and a woman falling in love and treating each other with decency and respect.
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“Old-Fashioned” opens Friday and is showing at East Ridge 18.
“Old Fashioned,” which opens this weekend just like “Fifty Shades” — and no, that’s not a coincidence, is a movie that deals with romance and second chances based on Christian principles. And it’s a movie about a man and a woman who attempt to do something sort of strange by trying to enter into a courtship based on some outdated ideas.
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Fifty Shades’ (maybe more) of excitement