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- 2013
- R
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2013
- R
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 55 m
Summary When a woman tries to outwit her husband's mistress, her plan backfires, and she ends up playing King Lear in an amateur production of the play with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing the Fool.
Directed By: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Written By: Joan Carr-Wiggin
- 2013
- R
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2013
- R
- Koch Lorber Films
- 1 h 55 m
If I Were You
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Mixed or Average
5.8
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Summary When a woman tries to outwit her husband's mistress, her plan backfires, and she ends up playing King Lear in an amateur production of the play with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing the Fool.
Directed By: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Written By: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Mixed
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4 Reviews
56% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
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0 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
56% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
If I Were You is a screwball comedy for Canadians—not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get.
If I Were You has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging. She had the exact same problem with her last movie, “A Previous Engagement.’’
It’s a complex geometry that’s mined for some interesting perspectives on romantic fulfillment, but the film’s comic sense (exemplified by a drunken Harden acting inappropriately) is slack and its dramatic conclusion unfulfilling.
A modern cinematic equivalent of the sort of tired sex farces that used to populate Broadway with regularity, If I Were You simultaneously exploits and squanders the talents of its star, Marcia Gay Harden.
Mostly it just redefines the word “asinine.” Marcia Gay Harden never makes a wrong move, but this movie is so futile, one goes away convinced that the moves she makes are hardly worth making.
A comedy that is so scatterbrained and long-winded that much of it feels invented on the spot. (It’s also a half-hour too long.)
Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful.
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Based on 4 User Ratings
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Production Company
Paragraph Pictures,
TallTree Pictures
Release Date Mar 15, 2013
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
Tagline What happens when your new best friend is your husband's mistress?
Awards
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
