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  1. Nancy
    Aug 22, 2003
    3
    Guttenberg is very dry, if Mel Gibson or Billy Crystal were cast in his place, they could have brought this story to life.
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  2. BillD.
    Aug 20, 2003
    6
    James kirkwood was a great novelist as well as playwright and he will be deeply missed.
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  3. GregT.
    Nov 3, 2003
    7
    Not bad. Guttenberg is much more talented than he is given credit for.
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Generally unfavorable - based on 11 Critics

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  2. Negative: 4 out of 11
  1. Despite strong portrayals by Guttenberg and his co-star, Lombardo Boyar, and sequences that attempt to open the play up, it remains too much a filmed play, and worse, one that has not been effectively paced. As a result, it doesn't come alive until it's drawing to a close that's unexpectedly touching, if more than a little sentimental, but too late to redeem the preceding tedium.
  2. It's Boyar who’s the find here, though, a gently magnetic presence who's all the more impressive for being thoroughly riveting despite spending most of the movie face-down on a counter.
  3. 42
    If the movie wasn't about an actor but instead about an insurance salesman or a plumber who looked like James Gandolfini, it might come off better. But then, who says a plumber would care either?