Consumerist satire wherein the ideal family of four is really an assembled sales team — a “unit” — planted in an affluent community to arouse envy and rivalry in their neighbors. Details of the operation are sketchy at best, but it works well enough as a metaphor. The satire goes soft at the end, though, and in fact begins to signal the melting a long way short of the end. Demi Moore, molded, sanded, polished, and varnished to mannequin perfection, has found here a role in which her inhumanness is not, until the softening, a drawback. David Duchovny, with that trademark quizzical look of trying to identify the flavor of ice cream in his mouth, is the chief signaller, the chief bean-spiller, of the coming thaw. With Amber Heard, Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, and Glenne Headly; written and directed by Derrick Borte. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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