I'd have to agree with the AP entertainment news which called this
indulgent and only interesting if you're an actor. It's basically a
bunch of actors at a party, preening and bitching, not content with
their beautiful lives and Neutra house and special Mexican cooks and
maids. They take ecstasy, and have some dramatic revelations. The
central relationship is a woman who has married a gay man, proving how
smart she is and making it hard to care about the bed she (or her maid)
has made and is now lying in. Gwenneth Paltrow appears in this film as a
beguiling young famous actress who, when on drugs, does a very odd dance
by the pool, at which point I thought that I was the one on drugs. She
is lovely to look at, but I still wonder if anybody is upstairs if you
know what I mean. Jennifer Jason Leigh is good as always, as is Kevin
Kline, but everyone else suffers under the weight of the mediocre
script. This is no "Big Chill", or even "Little Chill"- it's just room
temperature.
indulgent and only interesting if you're an actor. It's basically a
bunch of actors at a party, preening and bitching, not content with
their beautiful lives and Neutra house and special Mexican cooks and
maids. They take ecstasy, and have some dramatic revelations. The
central relationship is a woman who has married a gay man, proving how
smart she is and making it hard to care about the bed she (or her maid)
has made and is now lying in. Gwenneth Paltrow appears in this film as a
beguiling young famous actress who, when on drugs, does a very odd dance
by the pool, at which point I thought that I was the one on drugs. She
is lovely to look at, but I still wonder if anybody is upstairs if you
know what I mean. Jennifer Jason Leigh is good as always, as is Kevin
Kline, but everyone else suffers under the weight of the mediocre
script. This is no "Big Chill", or even "Little Chill"- it's just room
temperature.