"THIS IS SO SAD" is a line spoken by Samantha Morton after a failed attempt of love making. I couldn't help but think she was talking about the movie. Asylum, best known for its low budget, badly written, badly produced, and badly filmed horror movies and mockbusters have made an attempt at making a dark comedy. They went out and spent the bucks to get some name actors for a change, sadly they gave Teri Garr a nonspeaking role.
The description on the back of the box "...as Claire must decide weather (sic) to engage or pull away." Sadly, they must have outsourced the creation of the insert to some country where English is not the first language. Jason Patric plays an unlikeable character who has a passion for giving out tickets, berating the people, belittling his date, and masturbating to on-line porn. He meets his opposite in the equally dysfunctional Samantha Morton, whose life is so pathetic, she falls in love with a guy everyone hates.
The love-making scenes are equally pathetic as neither partner is able to achieve satisfaction. I have to wonder what kind of relationship writer-director Cecilia Miniucchi has been involved, in order to be able to write about two unlikeable characters in such a sad, border-line humorous situation (If you see Cecilia, give her a hug.). Illeana Douglas plays the neighbor of Claire and is our "voice of reason" during this movie until she suggests a pajama party.
Most of the humor is recessed. For instance, Claire mentions that you can meet people on the Internet. Jay responds to her remark as if she is making fun of him. Jay takes offense because he masturbates to Internet porn (who does that?) unknown to Claire at the time, or Claire's inability to wear the proper undergarments for her fancy red dress. The scenes between Claire and Jay, at times, makes one feel uncomfortable. Well, maybe not at times, but all the time.
Does LA really give out parking tickets at night and on Christmas? Or was that supposed to be a joke too? The movie contains bad language (Jay likes the f-bomb),sexual language, bad sex scenes, some minor Internet nudity flashes, and vanishing acting careers. Sadly, one of best films produced by Asylum.
The description on the back of the box "...as Claire must decide weather (sic) to engage or pull away." Sadly, they must have outsourced the creation of the insert to some country where English is not the first language. Jason Patric plays an unlikeable character who has a passion for giving out tickets, berating the people, belittling his date, and masturbating to on-line porn. He meets his opposite in the equally dysfunctional Samantha Morton, whose life is so pathetic, she falls in love with a guy everyone hates.
The love-making scenes are equally pathetic as neither partner is able to achieve satisfaction. I have to wonder what kind of relationship writer-director Cecilia Miniucchi has been involved, in order to be able to write about two unlikeable characters in such a sad, border-line humorous situation (If you see Cecilia, give her a hug.). Illeana Douglas plays the neighbor of Claire and is our "voice of reason" during this movie until she suggests a pajama party.
Most of the humor is recessed. For instance, Claire mentions that you can meet people on the Internet. Jay responds to her remark as if she is making fun of him. Jay takes offense because he masturbates to Internet porn (who does that?) unknown to Claire at the time, or Claire's inability to wear the proper undergarments for her fancy red dress. The scenes between Claire and Jay, at times, makes one feel uncomfortable. Well, maybe not at times, but all the time.
Does LA really give out parking tickets at night and on Christmas? Or was that supposed to be a joke too? The movie contains bad language (Jay likes the f-bomb),sexual language, bad sex scenes, some minor Internet nudity flashes, and vanishing acting careers. Sadly, one of best films produced by Asylum.