The Trouble With Romance

The Trouble with Romance will be screening at The Quad Theater in New York City Friday, February 27th through Thursday, March 5th.

Check out a new review from popcornreel.com!

Past screenings for TROUBLE WITH ROMANCE:

Washington, DC, San Diego, Cinequest, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, Chicago. 

Story: In one Los Angeles hotel, each room hides a different trouble with romance.  JACK and JILL can't get up the hill because STEVE is blocking their way.  PAUL and KAREN have been married for 7 years and could use a little spice (aka RACHEL) in their love life…well, maybe not.  JIMMY is from Mars and STEPH is from Venus and they’ve got commitment issues that span the solar system.  And NICOLE thought she knew what men wanted, and what she wanted, but CHARLIE’s different…or is he not?  Sometimes you get love advice from all the right - and wrong - people; who’s to know who is who and which is which? 


First official reviews of THE TROUBLE WITH ROMANCE:

"THE TROUBLE WITH ROMANCE
(Gene Rhee, USA , 88 min.)
An extraordinarily engaging, well-written and
creatively filmed romantic comedy comprised of four
stories set in hotel rooms on the same floor."
-The San Francisco Chronicle

"Rhee's feature debut is in some ways a textbook for
how to make a great low-budget feature: Start with a
really good, tightly written script, hire some
terrific, trained, hungry actors and shoot it
economically on small interiors.  For an audience,
it's a winning combination."
-The San Francisco Chronicle

"(Roger Fan's) intense crying jag while on the toilet
is a riot.  It is to bathroom crying jags what the
French Connection car chase is to car chases."
-The San Jose Metro  

"Jennifer Siebel is stunning... (her) performance in The
Trouble with Romance is highly watchable."
-The SFist  

"Rhee is a talented director, so we can only hope he
teams up again with Jen and her company."
-The SF Weekly

Gene Rhee (Director/Writer/Producer) is currently attached to direct the thriller Forsaken Seoul for pop icon Madonna’s Maverick Films, based on a screenplay he adapted.  Gene wrote, produced and directed The Quest For Length, a comedy short which was an Official Selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, received the Best Director Prize at the Visual Communications Film Festival and was selected by the American Cinematheque as one of the best comedy shorts of 2002 (see Appendix A for excerpts from selected press reviews). As a screenwriter, Gene sold The Reef to Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorksSKG.  Prior to that, he sold the live-action television movie Downfall to the Fox Family Channel, and also set-up the science fiction television project, VentureStar, at Hallmark Entertainment.  Gene graduated at the top of his class from U.S.C. Film School’s renowned Peter Stark Program.