Bad Manners
Wes (David Strathairn) suffers the trials of a suburban fortysomething middling academic. Passed over for tenure, he's locked in a loveless marriage to Harvard professor Nancy (Bonnie Bedelia) and fears that further emasculation looms via a visit from Nancy's ex-flame Matt (Saul Rubinek). Matt brings along his steady, Kim (Caroleen Feeney), whose devilish way with a mouthful of cigarette smoke proves irresistible to blueballed Wes. Soon after their arrival, Wes loses 50 bucks and suspects one of them has taken it, launching a convoluted game of wordplay and deception.
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Directed by Jonathan Kaufer
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Director Jonathan Kaufer is better at stirring feelings of domestic claustrophobia in his audience than engaging them in gamesmanship. Weighed down by David Gilman's clunky, self-consciously caustic script--imagine Hank from Larry Sanders trying to write an episode of Seinfeld--the principals act from the neck up, and Kaufer films them accordingly. Bedelia finds a few interesting wrinkles in her wry, martyred wife but is overshadowed by stone-faced Strathairn, who doesn't speak his lines so much as chew them up and spit them out. His performance is so staggeringly bad--at once perfunctory and overwrought--that you think he might be trying to sabotage the film. Given the material,he needn't have gone to such trouble.
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