If I Were You: movie review
If I Were You
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Time Out says
Mon Mar 11
You know those movies where everything would be a lot simpler if people just sat down and talked? Madelyn (Marcia Gay Harden), her husband (Joseph Kell) and his mistress, Lucy (Leonor Watling), spend all of writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin’s drama not telling one another what they know about their respective situations. Which, of course, makes things awkward when Madelyn befriends Lucy and the two bond over their relationship crises, as the latter doesn’t realize that the former is her lover’s wife. It’s a complex geometry that’s mined for some interesting perspectives on romantic fulfillment, but the film’s comic sense (exemplified by a drunken Harden acting inappropriately) is slack and its dramatic conclusion unfulfilling.
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Author: Andrew Schenker
Release details
Duration:
115 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Joan Carr-Wiggin
Screenwriter:
Joan Carr-Wiggin
Cast:
Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling, Joseph Kell, Aidan Quinn
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