David Schwimmer makes the jump from the little screen's Friends, and backwards to the big screen's The Graduate: a Hoffman-esque figure drawn into a romantic triangle with an older woman and a same-aged woman; boyish and puppyish; helpless and needy; innocent and adorable. Or that's the hope, anyhow. The story angle -- an unemployed twentysomething receives an irresistible invitation from a bereaved mother to take part in the funeral of a high-school mate he cannot for the life of him remember -- has its amusements, and the dead man's mother (a platinum-haired, dark-rooted Barbara Hershey) is vividly, overpoweringly visualized. The younger woman (the willowy, verging on wispy Gwyneth Paltrow) pales in comparison. Or even without comparison. Carol Kane, Toni Collette, Michael Rapaport; directed by Matt Reeves. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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