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Great little cautionary tale ...
... about how important it is to really have a look at what you have on the home front before you go slumming for love and selling out for something other than "vanilla". Bottom line -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and sometimes rocky road is just that -- rocky. <
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>This movie explains perfectly well the delicious contentment of having somebody to stay at home with and watch movies while doing laundry on Saturday nights. A rut or a cozy routine? Yep, there's a difference, and these characters find out the hard way. Practically everybody shoots themself in the foot, and a happy ending isn't guaranteed ... or maybe even deserved ... but it's still possible. That's the hopeful spirit chugging along behind this neo-cynical, sometimes potty-mouthed (it is!) indie film. Not for those afraid of seeing skin (don't say you weren't warned). <
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>Jay Mohr was a great "everyman" leading male. Why didn't he get more roles? He is funny too -- any leading male nowadays really has to be, when you get right down to it, to be bankable (with the glaring exception of the humorless, increasily scarily-cyborgish Tom Cruise) -- but he was more than a one trick pony. Jay Mohr, come back! Come out to play! We miss you! <
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>Lauren Graham's delivery of a crass, money-obsessed, shrewish character is a refreshing change from her "Lorelei Gilmore" persona, and though I'd prefer that any day of the week it's nice to see her play against type. <
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>Not a movie I'd necessarily buy -- I saw it for free on cable -- (wait, does that count as free?!), but worth a watch if a) you like modern sex comedies with a smart flair, and/or b) you need a little refresher course in Reasons To Stay With The One You Love And Who Loves You, You Idiot 101. <
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Cosi Fan Tutti...
"Seeing Other People" is a hilarious cautionary fable about what happens when we take important stuff for granted, like love and commitment. Wally Wolodarsky, the co-writer and director, used to write for "The Simpsons" and we get that same smart, sweet-and-sour satirical style here. Relatively innocent Julianne Nicholson comes to feel that she doesn't have enough "experience" before her upcoming marriage to nice but snarky sitcom-writer Jay Mohr, so she says they should have meaningless sex with other people before the vows are taken. She's sure they are "mature" enough to handle it. This magnificently dumb plan is followed by increasingly catastrophic consequences that include crack-smoking Harvard graduates, emotionally needy polygamists, a foul Englishman and his nasty wife, lots and lots of cats, and the worst three-way ever depicted on film. The old saws about "the grass is always greener" and "be careful what you wish for" have seldom been more memorably depicted. The exceptional cast includes Conan's Andy Richter as Mohr's good-guy friend; Josh Charles as his misogynist other friend; "Gilmore Girls" Lauren Graham as Nicholson's horrible, horrible sister; Helen Slater as an emotionally nuked divorcee; Liz Phair in a cameo as a yoga instructor; and last but not least, Bryan Cranston, delving depths of indignity unknown even as the dad on "Malcolm in the Middle", as Graham's bad-breathed, leering English husband. The film turns out to be generous, good-natured, and forgiving but there's some wonderfully funny bad behavior on the way.