wtf?!?!

RDJ's character can't face up to the fact that his mother is dying. She is #1 in his life. At about the time she starts getting sick, he starts 2 relationships with 2 different women. His fear is of his mother's death which will leave him alone in the world.
He has two relationships, becasue he doesnt really want to be emotionally attached, and he really isn't looking for another woman, he wants his mother. Perhaps that is why he tries to convice the women "we are one", as he once was in his mother's womb.
If one reltionship fails, he will at least have the other one to fall back on, he thinks, because his ultimate fear is being alone.

But he gets caught and has to own up to the fact, which to him means he will also have to own up to his fear of his mother's death, which he cannot do, so he does everything in his power to avoid it. but, it's in his face, it won't leave, as the women stay, and his mother keeps calling with a funny voice, and eventualy he has to. The women won't leave, he must deal with them. Heather Graham's character unerstands him more. She realizes that this is all about his mother, and so when she dies, she stays and comforts him. It's suggested that they will stay together, but it's left open, becasue that wasn't the point.
The point was that he was a lonely man who wasn't dealing with the dying/death of his mother, thus his behavior was destructive to more than just himself. He finally is forced to deal with not only the death, but the destructive behaviors. By finally being honest with Heather Graham's character he is not left alone to deal with it in the end. She is there for him, and can now fully appreciate the loss, whereas, before, under the lies, had the mother died, HG's character wouldn't fully comprehend the loss.

It was made so RDJ could put his face in her rear. Ingenius.

I have to agree too. I just seen this movie for the first time and that's what I was saying throughout this movie - wtf?
Love RDJ but not enough to sit through this movie again. Thankfully there's plenty of his other movies that I love.

Newsflash to the stupid and/or close-minded: movies don't have to be plot-driven. They can be character- driven, mood-driven, atmosphere-driven, etc. This was a slice of life type of movie, the "point" of it is to show these three people in this tense, pathos filled situation and how they navigate through it. It is a study of a man who is so attached to his mother that he can't become truly intimate with any other woman. He is scared. He knows his mother will always be there for him, but lovers come and go. Ultimately, in the end I think it's a story of becoming independent and growing up.

I agree with what a previous poster said. Love Robert Downey Jr., hated this movie. I haven't seen the whole thing so my comments are somewhat ignorant/biased, but what I was able to see, I was unable to sit through. His acting was very good, but the writing was terrible. That bathroom scene where he's covered in blood was a good example of that. Seemed like a great scene with infinite possiblities, but once he started doing those weird faces it felt like the whole thing wasn't going anywhere but was just rambling on. Pity, because I really had high hopes for it.

And can anyone explain the godawful title? It sounds like the title for a low-budget porno, which is kind of what this movie was like. Bad writing used as a vehicle for moderately good sex scenes.

I just started watching this and I'll finish tomorrow but it films just like a play. That's all I've been thinking since it started. I haven't done any research so maybe it was. Tons of dialogue which I'm sure isn't easy to do.

+++ edited to say I finished watching. This cost a million dollars???!!!