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I'm with Lucy (2002)
This
inane movie from director Jon Sherman and writer Eric Pomerance stars
Monica Potter (Boston Legal; Saw) as Lucy, a blonde reporter with
Jewish New York parents. She flounces around the city, kind of like a
long-lost wanna-be sibling of someone from a Woody Allen film except
without the dramatic or intellectual flair.
Lucy
is heading over for a wedding in a taxi with her two best friends. This
is a perfect vehicle (the filmmakers hope) for a quirky retrospective of
five different guys Lucy dated during the year and the misadventures the
dates generated. There’s the intellectual Irish entomologist (John
Hannah), the sensual Latino stud/playwright (Gael García Bernal), the
gruff ex baseball champion (Anthony LaPaglia), the hunky doctor with a
short temper (David Boreanaz) and the boy next door who’s in finance
(Henry Thomas).
Which
one will she choose? Before we find out, we have to put up with
seemingly interminable restaurant and dating scenes where foibles spill
aplenty. I found this movie immensely tedious and wouldn’t recommend it
to many people. Watch out for the many continuity flaws, especially with
the taxi numbers—it is careless filmmaking at its most visible.
Maybe
a group of people who all suddenly got dumped and need some sort of hope
that the right person will come along eventually (within a year?) can
get together and bitch about exes while the sound on I’m with Lucy
is kept to a minimum. The extras are just distributor trailers and a
photo gallery. Sorry to say it, but I’m definitely not with
Lucy.
Felix
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