Marty Barnes gets more than he wishes for when he asks his wife to join him in a menage-a-trois. She loves it and he has created a Sex Monster.Marty Barnes gets more than he wishes for when he asks his wife to join him in a menage-a-trois. She loves it and he has created a Sex Monster.Marty Barnes gets more than he wishes for when he asks his wife to join him in a menage-a-trois. She loves it and he has created a Sex Monster.
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- TriviaCrystal Kwon's debut.
- GoofsAfter the game in the pool, Laura runs to the bedroom. Marty runs after her and has nothing in hands as he reaches the door. But when he enters the bedroom he holds and drops a bath towel.
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Marty Barnes: So, where are you from, Didi? Chicago or something?
Didi: I'm from all over. I'm an Army brat.
Marty Barnes: Army brat. That is intense. Tell us about it.
Didi: Well, I lived with my Dad on U.S. Army bases in Texas, Kentucky and elsewhere until I was 14. And then out of nowhere I met my Mom again. My parents got divorced when I was only a baby. I lived with her until we decided that we hated each other. And then I sort of hitchhiked around the country until I was 17 when I met this woman who I moved down to Miami, Florida and lived with her for three years as lovers. But it didn't really work out because she was sort of in love with me and... I guess to be honest, I didn't really love her because I just really enjoyed fucking her.
[Marty drops a tray of dishes causing a huge crash]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Creating 'the Upside of Anger' (2005)
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Written by Joey Altruda (as Joey Altruda)
Performed by Kevin Williams and Dread Flimstone
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It's also remarkably chauvinist - e.g., men automatically get girlfriends when their wives get fat (and of course that wife must be shown gorging on food every chance she gets - don't worry her husband will take her back when she goes on a diet), the "good" woman not only cleans up the coffee her husband spills, but rushes to bring his breakfast, etc.
In its attempt to offend everyone, there are even completely gratuitous and repeated shots at Republicans ("this is a no-Republican zone. Get out").
Binder's habit of repeating everything he says ("So I thought we'd go out, you know, go out" "so let's go upstairs, ok? Go upstairs?") is excruciating.
He is so ugly and without charm (from start to finish), so self-absorbed, so detestable, that it is impossible to imagine what Mariel Hemingway is doing married to this small-minded fellow (she's looks about 5 inches taller than this balding little whining fellow).
The movie is a showcase for Binder's ego, which is colossally greater than his talent. Someone like Albert Brooks might have done something with the premise - in part because he's likeable - Binder's not. From the first moment he appears on screen (angry that his coffee spilled), he's an ass.
It is very sad to see wonderful comic actors like Kevin Pollak, Taylor Nichols (from the Whit Stillman movies) and Holland Taylor in this - and in tiny roles - that's the business, I suppose.
More than any movie in which I've seen her, Mariel Hemingway shows what a wonderful actor she is. To light up the screen with SUCH flimsy material is remarkable. For example, the scene in which she attempts to "act natural" is a lesson in physical acting.
At 40, Hemingway's face and figure seem absolutely unchanged from twenty years ago. Her grace has increased with maturity, and she's a better actress than she was then - as also shown in The Contender - despite the lameness of this script and her opposite actor's inability to, well, act.
Someone below wrote, "Mariel Hemingway is still beautiful, still talented, and she deserves to be pitched much better scripts than this one, and someone needs to tell Binder that his fantasies are simply just not rip-roaringly hilarious". This is absolutely true.
So, if you'd like to see a wonderful actress and what she can do with nothing, watch this movie. Otherwise stay clear.
- trpdean
- Mar 1, 2002
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