The feature debut of ad director Billy Kent is an "indie" sex comedy as crassly commercial as possible with Parker Posey and Paul Rudd in the lead roles instead of, say, Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller. The couple in their public lives are, respectively, a Cleveland P.R. flack ("What was once the Mistake by the Lake is now the Roar by the Shore") and a high-school biology teacher, and in their private lives a sexually dysfunctional wife, meaning she has never achieved orgasm, and a dejected, borderline-despondent husband. The fun is really supposed to begin when the bony wife becomes "addicted" to her new vibrator and the fleshy husband finds solace with a precocious, preternaturally confident teenager. Really, though, the fun never does begin. Liza Minnelli, a walking joke if not a funny one, has a slurry cameo as the head of an adult-ed masturbation class: "Liberate you labia! Value your vulva! Claim your clitoris!" Danny DeVito, in such company, comes off as not just offbeat casting as a romantic prospect (for Posey, not Minnelli), but also comes off as halfway human. With Mischa Barton, Keith David, Miranda Bailey. (2006) — Duncan Shepherd
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