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Summary: "Mr. Jealousy" is a funny, insightful, and moving comedy.
Review: A director's sophomore effort can be either a triumph or a misstep--Noah Baumbach's "Mr. Jealousy" clearly is the former. Beautifully written, acted, and directed, "Mr. Jealousy" uses sharp dialogue and comic inventiveness to explore the ways in which jealousy becomes confused with love--itself a state of confusion for adults navigating the mores of our times. Baumbach's music selections provide highly original background commentary that is never obtrusive--but then again, I may be biased by his use in the film's opening moments of some hauntingly lovely strains from Georges Delerue's memorable "Jules et Jim" score. Altogether, "Mr. Jealousy" is an underrated gem that is worth seeing and savoring.
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Summary: great movie, but not for the masses!
Review: Before I saw anything else, let it be known that if you watch films ONLY for entertainment, skip this movie. You won't have the patience for it.With that said, let's talk about this movie. First off, its great! Great acting, great script, even nice camera work. However, this film is not for everyone. If you're already an indie fan, I think you'll enjoy this movie right off the bat. But if you're not used to indie films, it has to grow on you. This is the type of movie thats not quite a comedy, not quite a drama. It has funny momments, but if you expect funny momments every ten minutes you'll be disapointed. If you like offbeat, non mainstream movies, I think you'll enjoy this film. If you want to find out whether or not you enjoy offbeat films, this is a great one to test yourself on (I suggest watching it twice before you judge it). If you're used to Julia Roberts type romantic comedies, skip this one.
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Summary: great movie, but not for the masses!
Review: Before I saw anything else, let it be known that if you watch films ONLY for entertainment, skip this movie. You won't have the patience for it. With that said, let's talk about this movie. First off, its great! Great acting, great script, even nice camera work. However, this film is not for everyone. If you're already an indie fan, I think you'll enjoy this movie right off the bat. But if you're not used to indie films, it has to grow on you. This is the type of movie thats not quite a comedy, not quite a drama. It has funny momments, but if you expect funny momments every ten minutes you'll be disapointed. If you like offbeat, non mainstream movies, I think you'll enjoy this film. If you want to find out whether or not you enjoy offbeat films, this is a great one to test yourself on (I suggest watching it twice before you judge it). If you're used to Julia Roberts type romantic comedies, skip this one.
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Summary: Funny and Charming
Review: For anyone who's sat through modern romantic comedies and worried that Eric must be the more interesting Roberts sibling. Mr. Jealousy offers a refreshing and clever peak into twentysomething urban love schemes...more stylistic than Baumbach's first feature, Kicking and Screaming--this time with nods to French New Wave cinema--but just as witty and talky. Particularly well-cast is returning Baumbach talent Chris Eigeman (Dashiell Frank), known for his ability in Whit Stillman films to elicit the more likable sides of smarmy and pretentious characters.
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Summary: Huge Stoltz Fan
Review: I enjoyed this movie Ilaughed a lot and Eric seemed he liked the role he played.
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Summary: A Jealous Guy...
Review: I have to confess that I am a fan of Chris Eigeman. So, I have worked my way through all of the movies that I know he has been in. Luckily, he is always in good movies! Mr Jealousy is about one man's (Eric Stoltz) obsession with wanting to know everything about his girlfriend's (Annabella Sciorra) past. This leads him to a therapy group, which just happens to be attended by his girlfriend's ex (Chris Eigeman). The problems that occur are funny and sad at the same time. Noah Baumbach's film is funny and subtle. All the actors are well suited to the script, and Chris Eigeman shines (as usual). It is interesting to see Eigeman in this role, as he is not so sarcastic as he has been in previous roles. I think that his talent as an actor is really highlighted in this film. This film is another one that you do need to listen to in order to get the most out of it. You can't just put it on in the background and expect to love it. It is, however, an easy film to watch. This is just the kind of film to watch with a group of like minded friends who enjoy talking about a movie after watching it. Or do as I did, and put on the video and watch it snuggled up in a comfy chair with a coffee...
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Summary: This is a great film.
Review: I loved this movie, and for some reason didn't see it when it first came out. My girlfriend made me watch it which is kind of a bad sign but I think for all the right reasons. Great acting and music, it's funny and kind of sadly weird too. I'd never heard of it, but now I'm showing it to my friends.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!
Review: If you liked "Kicking and Screaming," you'll love this follow up film! Funny and very honest!
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Summary: A Rare Mediocrity
Review: Mirabella calls it "a comic revelation." I had a different reaction. I fell asleep. This in of itself cannot be considered a pan, as I have fallen asleep during a lot of movies that were highly acclaimed, such as the first Star Wars, which I saw with my dad and bored me to tears-or would have if I could have focused on the screen for more than the first twenty minutes. (He was there with his spanking new family.) This movie, which the New York Times of Jason Blair fame, calls "a shrewd comedy" I found to be wanting. The back of the DVD calls it "the most possessive romantic comedy ever." However, Lester, played by Eric Stoltz, is only vaguely jealous, which is appropriate considering the hair styles and vapid conversation of his new love interest, Ramona (Anabella Sciorra). Sciorra, who is not bad to look at, has a richly boring erotic past of flings with some twenty-odd twenty-somethings, each one (from what the sleeping reviewer can gather) a more inane yuppie than the last. And none of her inane yuppie love interests is more aggravating than Dashiell Frank (Chris Eigeman), the New York generation X writer who receives huge contracts for his best-selling short stories of intercourse in unusual positions with his x-girlfriends, of whom Ramona is, to Lester's consternation. Well, without giving the plot away (difficult considering my sleep and its absence), let's just say that the inanely unjealous Lester (who turns down a scholarship to the Iowa writing program because "he isn't interested in school"-MTV beckons, no doubt) spots the enviable and dashingly intellectual Frank and, following him, joins his group therapy group under an alias. Why? You'd have to ask the writers (?) but my guess is that, as so often in modern "cinema," these same writers were neuronally overstimulated from MSG from all the Chinese take out that they ate during the day (or two) when the screenplay, for which they were certainly overpaid, was composed. And group therapy (arguably the exact opposite of the solitary task of writing-but not of the Hollywood group marketing that passes for writing!) must have just commended itself to them as a brilliant technical device to tell their story. Edith Wharton in the introduction to Ethan Frome tells of the necessity of having the stories of simpler people told by more intelligent or complex ones. I think something similar occurs in movies like this: the would-be complex and intelligent writers (usually paid for by oil executives that own the film conglomerates) choose (or are forced to choose) as their subject matter relatively simple and less bright "ordinary people." It is this leveling process that may be in part responsible for what Kurt Vonnegut calls the American tendency of "aspiring to mediocrity." In short, a must-have for the serious possessive romantic comedy collector.
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Summary: Comedy! Romance! Music! And a twenty-sided die...
Review: Mr. Jealousy isn't your typical romantic comedy. It's smart, without being condescending. It's romantic, but not in the all-too-typical Hollywood fashion. And it has one of the best soundtracks of all time. Huh? you say as you wonder if I've had too much caffiene (which I usually do). The most overlooked portion of most movies is the music. It usually justs bobs along, telling us what we're supposed to feel without ever really envoking any true feelings. The soundtrack for Mr. Jealousy, however, stirs the pot of emotions already brewing in your soul from the movies brilliant dialogue (make sure to stick around after the credits!) and the superb chemistry between Stoltz and Sciorra. A must see for fans of the genre (ie. movies that are actually good), Mr. Jealousy deserves the acclaim that only underground success can bring.
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