Thursday, October 4, 2007

IRA & ABBY'S FAILURE TO GEL


An exceptional cast of actors, some interesting ideas for specific scenes and low-fi production values... I wanted to like it. As the credits began to roll I found myself trying to come up with excuses for it having failed to come together to form a good movie. It should work, but it just doesn't. So many lame stereotypes I've seen so many times before --- actually, each character felt like she/he had shown up on the screen freshly arrived from Woody Allen's cutting room floor of an ever-expanding volume of limp work.
However, no one says "spa" like Judith Light. No one.
...it's too bad they didn't give her a more fleshed-out character.

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