itisright It is odd how I got to this movie. I was buying some used movies at the video store. I got this one just because it was cheaper to buy 3 and did not at all expect to particularly enjoy it. By the title and box I expected it to be something almost porno. I LOVED it. It was one of those great surprises like going into a divey looking cafe and finding outstanding food and service. Wendy Crewson rocks. (Almost as good as her toy scene in Better Than Chocolate :-)) This character was just so charming, vulnerable, world weary and cynical at the same time. I adored her. Felt like I knew her from the first couple of paragraphs so to speak. Great job by actors and director. Kudos and I hope I find many more like it. When you expect a movie to be mediocre it usually is. Not this one.

if-not-now-when I went into this film on a blind date, not knowing a thing about it -- at first, judging from the title, I thought my somewhat dim-witted date was trying to send me a not-too-subtle message. Anyway, I forgot all about my second-rate date once the movie got going -- the film was great! Often hilarious, and often touching, in just the right places. I was charmed, and want to check out more films by this director (but haven't had a chance yet). Oh yeah, the acting was good, too. Warmly recommended.

2headedboy Here's a case of a director getting her hands on some promising material and not delivering. I sat in the theatre thinking this story of a writer so anxious to protect her public image she end up almost ruining her personal life might be halfway decent if better choices had been made. But it seemed as if the director didn't really understand the story she was telling. The story's protagonist, Jackie is played by Wendy Crewson as a middle aged Jackie Collins-style writer who falls for a twenty year old from the creative writing class she teaches. Patrick (Joe Cobdon) seems to be as in to Jackie as she is to him and after some unconvincing flirting between the two of them they end up in bed in a sequence cut together like an eighties teen-film style montage.What puzzled me was that much of the dialogue and what happens suggested this was meant to be more along the lines of a Margaret Atwood-type character than Jackie Collins. Had Crewson played it more like an intellectual instead of a hammy romance novelist we might have better understood the stake's of going public with her affair. We also might bett er have understood Patrick's attraction to Jackie. After all we're meant to think this woman's writing got this confused kid through some awkward adolescent periods.It's probably not fair to ask Crewson to shoulder the blame. One assumes director Anne Wheeler would have reigned her in if she didn't agree with Crewson's characterization. But she didn't even have the sense to control her own hammy impulses. There were several pointless fast motion scenes, at least two excruciating Lilith Fair scored mope montages and it seemed whenever she wasn't sure how to block a scene she'd plop the characters in a bubblebath or a hottub.My main reason for attending this film was because I had read the screenwriter's funny and great novel, Then Again. This story doesn't appear to be at that level but it's well structured and there are some good lines and moments that might have been funny had the director had some sense of timing and the lead hadn't shouted all her lines.Joe Cobdon is sweet and likable as Patrick but Wheeler has him juggle at least three times. Because that's what young people do, right? Juggle.There are some okay scenes between Crewson and Peter Coyote and the film is generally better in the second half when it's a little more serious in tone. Both Wheller and Crewson seem more comfortable in that milieu. Perhaps they should stick to it in the future.

bialettiman I have watched this movie at Toronto International Film Festival (2001). First you think, it is a classic movie about a relationship between an old woman and a young man but then you realize it is more than that. It is about courage, being able to stand up and say - this is who I am, this is what I want to do and I will not (at least try) really care what other people say about me, at the end of the day, the only person that I am responsible to is the one I see in the mirror in the morning.. Superb acting from young Joe Cobden, write down the name..