Unconditional Love

About Unconditional Love

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.

Grace Beasley 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, a successful lawyer named Max. As the film begins, Grace awakens to cook her husband breakfast and watch a television morning show on 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.