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1hr and 20 min of build up...


i don't want to say i didn't like this movie...

it was a nice little art house flick...but i was expecting A LOT more....

it was build up...that is all. it kept building up the tension, kept building up the story of the two couples, then no resolve...i have never been in a "group sex" situation, but i am guessing that there is going to be a lot more interaction afterward between the couples involved then silently sitting in a car, apartment, then coming to an unspoken resolve at a coffee shop. Or, ravaging each other when you get home then breaking up at a coffee shop the next morning...

It's like the writer/director had an idea of a story leading up to the evening of the four getting together, then didn't know where to go from there...


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Couldn't agree with you more....after all the build up leading to the 'group sex', there isn't much of a resolution. The characters were still two-dimensional & not fully developed.

At least Miles Brandman did one thing right by featuring underrated American indie bands such as Sea Wolf, The Good Listeners, The Rosebuds, The Oranges Band & Mezzanine Owls to name a few.

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(about the ending)
Well there was a reason Maculy Culkin and his girlfriend's character broke up the next day at the coffee shop instead of the previous night after being with the other couple. His girlfriend's problem was he couldn't make her climax and after being with the other couple, they thought it would somehow resolve the problem and their sexual relationship would change afterward...She reveals at the coffee shop the next morning that she thought it was a good thing that she got jealous and could feel that he "loved" her from the other side of the room when they were swapping partners...and that it was a good thing that she almost climaxed when they went back to her apartment after and had sex. Maculy Culkin brought light to the fact that something like that should not be a problem and she didn't really love him. He went to the bathroom and she thought about it and realized he was right so she just.. bounced I guess. That couple DID make sense. I agree about Eliza Dushku and the other guy.. it was sort of unexplained how they patched things up after being swingers. And I didn't understand how it was a "good" thing she didn't take the waitress's phone number at the end because I really didn't even think she was a a lesbian. I honestly just thought she was just curious to sleep with a woman with no strings attached so I was kind of lost as to why they ended the movie with the busboy finding the number. I felt like her bi-curiousness wasn't the leading factor in destroying their relationship.

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