Gay Robert Whittaker (Rupert Everett) gets best friend Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) pregnant after one drunken night. She has the baby and they agree to live together and raise the child. Everything is fine until she falls in love with handsome Ben Cooper (Benjamin Bratt)...and wants full custody of their child.
Yawn. This has been done before, but never this badly. The script is lousy (some of the lines were beyond belief), Madonna's acting was terrible (no shock there), the direction off (I could direct better than this!), badly edited and it's just plain dull! The "comedy" wasn't funny, the "drama" has been done before in countless Lifetime movies on TV and it gets annoying that Hollywood thinks that a gay man getting a little drunk could automatically sleep with a woman. Speaking as a gay man myself, I can tell you, that isn't the case! Also Madoona looks terrible here. She's supposed to be 34! She was 42 when she made this--and looks it.
SPOILER AHEAD. Also at the end, Madonna is happily married, but Everett is still alone. I guess it's OK for the straight woman to find the man of her dreams, but not the gay guy. SPOILER END
There are a few good things about the movie--Lynn Redgrave shines in a supporting role and Everett was as good as was humanly possible. Also it's fun to see Michael Vartan in an early role and Neil Patrick Harris playing gay six years before he came out! But, all in all, this is a total mess--not worth anyone's time. Sadly, great director John Schlesinger's last film. Avoid.
Yawn. This has been done before, but never this badly. The script is lousy (some of the lines were beyond belief), Madonna's acting was terrible (no shock there), the direction off (I could direct better than this!), badly edited and it's just plain dull! The "comedy" wasn't funny, the "drama" has been done before in countless Lifetime movies on TV and it gets annoying that Hollywood thinks that a gay man getting a little drunk could automatically sleep with a woman. Speaking as a gay man myself, I can tell you, that isn't the case! Also Madoona looks terrible here. She's supposed to be 34! She was 42 when she made this--and looks it.
SPOILER AHEAD. Also at the end, Madonna is happily married, but Everett is still alone. I guess it's OK for the straight woman to find the man of her dreams, but not the gay guy. SPOILER END
There are a few good things about the movie--Lynn Redgrave shines in a supporting role and Everett was as good as was humanly possible. Also it's fun to see Michael Vartan in an early role and Neil Patrick Harris playing gay six years before he came out! But, all in all, this is a total mess--not worth anyone's time. Sadly, great director John Schlesinger's last film. Avoid.