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(More customer reviews)If there's one thing I can expect, is that independent studios like Lionsgate will produce anything but a typical hollywood movie for a genre such as this. Part comedy, but mostly drama, the movie doesn't quite belong to a particular type of movie you have come to expect from hollywood, which makes it very unique. Unfortunately, I'd have to say that although I find the script to be quite original, I can't say that I was drawn into the movie by any of the characters.
Perhaps it was the way the characters were written. There's obviously the heroin, the hero and the villian. But for some reason, I find them to be dull and uninspiring. I wanted to feel sorry for the heroin when her world came crashing down, but I couldn't bring myself to sympathize with her. The hero was so two-dimensional it was almost impossible for me to root for him either. He was like a sick puppy waiting to be put down. The only mildly interesting character here was the villian, although halfway through the movie his modus operandi were revealed and he became boring after that. He had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. None.
I suppose the only saving grace to this movie is the fact that it was very well executed, all by young but great seasoned actors. Kudos to Porter, Bledel and Greenberg for elevating this independent movie with a somewhat dull script into something more. Watching Bledel and Greenberg growing up was a real joy here, we have two great actors that have been around tinseltown for years, appearing in TV and films as they mature from teenagers into the attractive and talented adult actors they are today.
There's no lesson to be learnt here, the movie merely offered a brief window into the darkside of humanity that we adults have come to know so well. Note to those who love romantic comedies: You wouldn't want to be watching this movie with the person you're seeing on a date night. You'd be wondering what he/she is doing next Friday night when you're not spending the night together.
Note about the DVD: It's a single layer disc with 91 minutes of film compressed to about 4GB of data. Picture quality is great but the transfer is not particularly clean. It's presented in English Dolby Digital 5.1, and comes with English and Spanish subtitles.
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Ambitious young New Yorker Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is trickiest of all, as Beth discovers when she falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a handsome, young Wall Street hotshot. Just as everything seems to be falling into place, Beth meets Tommy’s shy, clumsy co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg) – and soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street – high risk, high reward…and everybody has an angle
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