Later, when the doctor’s elderly patient dies, someone calls him at his home after hours, and he immediately heads over to the patient’s home, since that’s what doctors always do when their patients die. So the contemporary New York City doctor seems unacquainted with the possibility that women might have sex for pleasure. Don’t bother.Įyese Wide Shuty, in which everyone involved seems o have forgotten that a nineteenth century novella can’t be set in 2000 without a few adjustments. Badly acted, poorly written, gratuitously unpleasant. Cop goes to jail, Connelly survives, seemingly unscathed. Kingsley goes home, poisons his wife and suffocates himself.
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Kingsley breaks free of the cop, his son picks up the gun, and another cop kills him (the son).
Next day he takes Kingsley and his son to the courthouse so they can get $45,000 for the house and give it to Connelly and cop to start their new life together. She tries again, this time with pills in the bath, and while they are dragging her around, the cop comes back with a gun, and locks them in the bathroom. Below the fold is a short spoiler that will save you from wasting your time:Ĭonnelly tries to commit suicide with a gun just outside the house (she can’t even manage that), and Kingsley saves her, and tries to nurse her to health with his wife. Why did I watch to the end? Well, the box promised a surprising ending, and the only morally acceptable ending seemed to me to be one in which the general kept the house and Jennifer Connelly and her beau descended into the pits of daytime TV.
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He is also, understandably given his own circumstances, unwilling to give up the house and the bounty that it represents, so a battle of wills ensues, in which Jennifer Connelly is assisted by the most wooden actor I’ve ever seen in a big movie (he makes Arnold, on a bad day, look like Olivier by comparison - Dolph Lundgren territory), a rogue cop who leaves his happy family for a depressed alcoholic (Connelly) – that part of the story seeming plausible only because Connelly is manifestly not a depressed alcoholic, but looks healthy, happy, and well-made up every time she appears onscreen. He is, unfortunately, played by Ben Kingsley, who seems to be the only actor in the movie who can act, thus unwittingly preventing it from being hilarious (up to the point at which it turns gratuitously nasty). Now, an exiled Iranian general purchases the house at a steal at an auction from the County. She seems bratty, to be sure, but not ill. Whatever plausibility that explanation has is undermined by the fact that, on screen, the actress has no sign at all of being, or ever having been, depressed. Now, the only possible explanation in the circumstances is that she was severely depressed. She had 8 months to correct the mistake and did nothing. A woman has her house taken from her, by mistake, for failure to pay a business tax that she did not genuinely owe. (I see that someone has vandalised the wikipedia entry on this one, saying, hilariously, that it and some of its actors were nominated for awards!)
I rarely dislike a movie enough to warn people against it, but this is one of the worst, and most unpleasant, movies I’ve watched. But my nomination is more serious: The House of Sand and Fog. henry (not the famous one) proposes You’ve Got Mail, which sounds plausible. His first nomination is the truly awful Chasing Amy: I watched 15 minutes before deciding that there was a perfectly good toilet to clean in the other room. But, having made that acknowledgment, I’ll jump in. This should be Kieran’s thread really, since he came up with the concept.
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