Don’t see this movie.

Plain and simple.

There isn’t another way to review this movie other than to say, don’t go see it. I really want to be more positive and search throughout the entire film for some saving grace, but honestly folks, I wasted an hour and a half of my life sitting through this movie.

Debra Messing is awkward on screen, her dialogue never seems to connect with the audience, her chemistry with walking robot Dermot Mulroney is about as passionate as a wooden chair, the way she drudges along hopelessly playing the victimized older sibling never suits her well…she just needs to stick with playing a gay man’s roommate. I first thought this was an older movie, probably made around the time Will & Grace was taking off figuring the execs would try and cash in on her sitcom-star status and see if she would resonate on screen, but to my dismay, this was made only 3 years ago! The scenery, the jokes, the actors, all of it just seemed to be trapped in the late 90′s in its function and workability.

My wife and I put this movie on our Netflix queue after reading about it, remembering how funny Debra Messing was in Will & Grace and hoping that with a male counterpart that was heterosexual, she would really drive the movie and the story…nope! I can’t say I had a lot of expectations for the movie, but I at least expected to be, at the least, entertained, and that didn’t even happen.

Folks, just pass on by this movie. You won’t be happy, you won’t feel romantic, and you won’t laugh, you’ll just leave the movie wishing you had that hour and a half back.

Content Warning: Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue. This movie should have been rated R. It had some surprisingly sexual scenes, 1 being a mild sex scene that resulted in me having to avert my eyes for a bit. Stay away!

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