The Men's Club
1986VOTE NOW
| Atlantic Releasing Corporation | Release Date: September 19, 1986 |
Starring:
Cindy Pickett, Craig Wasson, David Dukes, Frank Langella, Gina Gallego, Harvey Keitel, Richard Jordan, Roy Scheider, Stockard Channing, Treat Williams
Summary:
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night.
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So the bad news about The Men's Club is that it leans heavily on
cliche; the good news is that it treats the cliche with elan and it doesn't
waste a splendid cast. [24 Sept 1986, p.4C]
There's no formal stylization to speak of, but this is, after all, a film about performances, and Medak simply points his camera at the actors and lets them chew away. Some of the chewers are better than others, and Harvey Keitel and Frank Langella especially, coming from opposite poles of intensity and languor, deliver the honest emotional goods.
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Director Peter Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels (working from his own novel) apparently tried to make a film like THE BIG CHILL for mature men, but the stagy result of their efforts will leave viewers cold. All of the characters are so broadly drawn that they become laughable, rather than interesting.
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Film is a distasteful piece of work that displays the worst in men. Leonard Michaels’ screenplay (from his novel) is all warts and no insight, full of self-loathing for the gender. In addition, film making is as tired as the material. Pic plays like a stageplay, so static is Peter Medak’s direction.
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