Second-chance romance for two fifty-four-year-old New Yorkers, a social worker played by Jill Clayburgh (Ms. Zeitgeist of 1979) and a pest controller played by Jeffrey Tambor (an actor who has spent too much time in television comedy, breeding ground of oily insincerity). They find each other at the vulnerable moment when (a) her only daughter has left home for college and (b) he is exploring homosexuality as an antidote for impotence. Writer-director Eric Schaeffer assumes that anyone hankering after a mature screen romance -- anyone who will nod in agreement when the heroine laments, "It's disheartening that there's no movie about a woman over thirty-five who wants to have sex and doesn't get decapitated" -- will also be hankering after the adolescent tastelessness of American Pie and There's Something about Mary. Hence the nonstop naughty talk, the Toys for Twats, the butt plug (titter-titter). Seldom has something so life-affirming seemed so depressing. Even disheartening. With Bill Duke, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan, Michael McKean. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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