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www.channel4.com - : Okay, so what did they all think they were doing? Making a European-style arthouse movie for Hollywood, probably. This has the kind of intense ménage à trois that we're used to from Bergman and Trauffaut (here the participants are Cage, Reinhold and Anderson). Trouble is, this is only European-style in the sense that certain kinds of oven chips claim to be Southern-style. The three stars struggle gamely - and with ludicrous seriousness - to try to make something of Kornhauser's clumsy, self-involved dialogue, which strains for profundity in every syllable. You'll cheer with relief when Steve Buscemi wanders into a scene. But not for long. more...
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efilmcritic.com - : Nicolas Cage is an artist who goes home to Louisiana to seduce his best buddy’s wife (Erika Anderson). Which is nice of him. His buddy (Judge Reinhold) suspects nothing as Cage and his woman do everything from screw in the kitchen between courses of a meal, paint each other’s nude bodies and rub oil into each other’s butts. So that’s why none of my relationships have lasted over a year – I’m not rubbing oil into anyone’s butt! more...
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