The Bachelor is a remake of the 1925 Buster Keaton movie Seven Chances, wherein Keaton plays young Jimmy Shannon, who must marry before day's end in order to inherit a fortune. So of course, women, who are all obsessed with getting married to a rich guy, form great predacious packs in order to stalk the poor bachelor and trap him into matrimony. I imagine this idea seemed somewhat sexist even in Keaton's day, so remaking it in 1999 with cute, characterless boy-wonder Chris O'Donnell as Jimmy Shannon is kinda like casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead in a slapstick comedy remake of Triumph of the Will. OK, maybe not, but wouldn't that be a hoot?
--James DiGiovanna
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