IMDb plot summary: Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
Directed by Anthony Drazan. Starring Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, and Robin Wright.
There's a lot of talking and high soul-searching and men saying truly awful things about women. It's all a little much for me, and it never ends up being entertaining or meaningful enough to cover the movie's other sins. It was based on a play, and while that's usually a vibe I like, here the endless "talky-ness" of it feels more pretentious than significant, and I found myself antsy for the scene to move on and do something more, only it seldom does. I did really enjoy seeing Meg Ryan in a role about as far away as she could get from the America's Sweetheart roles she did so many of in the 90s, and Sean Penn does a good job really bringing to life the unstable dread his character inhabits. I don't feel much sympathy for anyone in this story, but I ALMOST feel sympathy for him, because he seems truly miserable. If you're going to watch awful people being awful, there are better movies out there than this one.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Hurlyburly < Hustle & Flow
Hurlyburly > A Prairie Home Companion
Hurlyburly < Dark City
Hurlyburly < Sweet and Lowdown
Hurlyburly < The Pajama Game
Hurlyburly > Destry Rides Again
Hurlyburly > Loving Annabelle
Hurlyburly < The Visitor
Hurlyburly < Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Hurlyburly < The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Hurlyburly < The Day of the Triffids
Hurlyburly < Army of the Dead
Final spot: #2538 out of 3493, or 27%.
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