Multi-player mating game on the playing field of Portland, Ore. Essentially soap opera with philosophical aspirations and a tendency to talk them at us. Most of it is mildly interesting, in a low-suds sort of way, but the relentless effort to transform it into a Big Statement ("God is either dead or He despises us." "God doesn't despise us, Harry. If He did, He wouldn't have made our hearts so brave") tends to produce the opposite of the effect intended, not so much heightening the interest as highlighting the mildness -- highlighting, in other words, the distance between the tall talk and the flat mundanity. When all is said and done, none of the expansive talk adds greater interest than the expanses of flesh, female only. Robert Benton, of Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart, and perhaps most pertinently Billy Bathgate (if you remember Nicole Kidman in the full-length mirror), directed. With Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Toby Hemingway, Alexa Davalos, Selma Blair, and Jane Alexander. (2007) — Duncan Shepherd
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