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Unconditional Love is the title of a sleeper comedic film released in 2002. The film follows Grace Beasley who in the face of her failing marriage, and the death of her favorite pop star, learns the value and limitations of unconditional love, and the evils of sexism and homophobia. The film was directed by P.J. Hogan who also contributed to the final script.

Cast and crew

Director & Writer - P.J. Hogan
Writer - Jocelyn Moorhouse

Kathy Bates
.... Grace Beasley
Rupert Everett
.... Dirk Simpson
Meredith Eaton .... Maudey Beasley
Peter Sarsgaard
.... Window Washer
Lynn Redgrave
.... Nola Fox
Stephanie Beacham
.... Harriet Fox-Smith
Richard Briers
.... Barrymore Smith
Marcia Warren .... Lynette Fox-Moore
Jack Noseworthy
.... Andrew Beasley
Daniel Wyllie .... Pete
Dan Aykroyd
.... Max Beasley
Jonathan Pryce
.... Victor Fox
Brenda Pickleman .... Woman in Red Bra, Jerry Springer
guest

Story

Grace Beasly has been content to live an unseen life as an upper-middle class housewife living in an apartment high above the city of Chicago with her husband who is a successful lawyer named Max Beasley. As the film begins, Grace awakens to cook her husband breakfast and watch a television morning show in which her favorite singer, Victor Fox, is being interviewed. Fox's easy listening music about old-fashioned romantic love has made him the idol of millions of middle-aged women across the globe, and when he announces a special Christmas Chicago concert, Grace quickly dials the television station and becomes one of the first five callers to win a free ticket that will put her in the front row. She screams with joy to her husband that she won the concert, but he only says that they need to discuss their marriage.

Max politely announces that he is having a mid-life crisis and is moving out because he needs to have a more exciting life. Grace is so crushed that her marriage is ending, that she hangs up on the television station before they could get her name and address. She tries to console herself by having lunch at a mall cafe with her outspoken dwarf daughter-in-law, Maudey, only to learn that Grace's son, Andrew, has walked out on Maudey and their baby because he is afraid of just about everything, including growing up.

At the cafe, Grace notices that the waitresses never see her, while Maudey replies that people always see her and thus the film's social commentary about how people need to be loved, seen and respected is made explicit.

Grace decides that if she can get a ticket to the Fox concert then Max will see her on television and their marriage will be saved. Grace calls the television station, explains her situation, and an extra ticket arrives in the mail. At the concert, Grace takes a front row seat with a group of ethnically diverse, middle-aged women who accept her as a fellow fan. However, an announcer informs them that Victor has been delayed and thus the concert will have to be rescheduled. Saddened that her chance to save her marriage has failed, Grace goes to the grocery store to buy some food (where the aisles have products for sale that all look the same), only to faint when the radio, playing a Fox song as background music in the store, announces that Fox's body has been found in the underground parking lot, that just happens to be the parking lot for Grace's apartment. The police suspect that Victor was killed by the mysterious Cross Bow Killer that had been linked to the murder of some homeless people living in the underground parking lot.

Maudey has to drive Grace home and once in the parking lot, they visit the site where Victor's body was found, amidst a mob of police, television reporters and sobbing middle-aged women. Deciding to have a drink at a nearby pub, they discover that this was the same bar where Fox was drinking the night that he died and that the last thing that he said to the bartender was, "A life lived in fear is not much fun." Acting on this motto, Grace decides to fly to Fox's British small town to attend his funeral and thus through this crazy stunt, prove to Max that his mid-life crisis does not have to end in their divorce.

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