XX/XY

2002 "There's no room for honesty in a healthy relationship..."

XX/XY

5.9 | 1h31m | R | en | Drama

When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of their friendship, however, they are tested by Sam and Coles' incipient romance and Thea's increasing recklessness, until the relationship dissolves amid a cloud of fear, resentment and mistrust. Eight years later they reunite. An animator for a high-profile ad agency, Coles now lives with Claire, his girlfriend of five years. Thea is happily married to Miles, with whom she owns a flourishing restaurant. And Sam has just returned to Manhattan after working in London where she recently broke off her engagement. Yet upon reconnecting, the three are drawn back into the complicated dynamic that defined their relationship from the start and are forced to confront the true meaning of commitment and love.

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5.9 | 1h31m | R | en | Drama , Comedy , Romance | More Info

Released: January. 11,2002 | Released Producted By: Natural Nylon Entertainment , Intrinsic Value Films Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Mark Ruffalo , Maya Stange , Kathleen Robertson

Director

Terence Dunlop

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Natural Nylon Entertainment , Intrinsic Value Films

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Cast

Mark Ruffalo

as Coles

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Maya Stange

as Sam

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Kathleen Robertson

as Thea

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Reviews

edwagreen Mark Ruffalo has proved himself to be a fine actor. What an engrossing mess this miserable film is.The story could have been told in about a half hour or so. Hippie guy meets girl, they split and meet some years later. He is in another relationship and she is also involved. Naturally, sparks fly between them and his girlfriend catches them and is angry. The girl goes off and marries the guy she had been with since ditching Ruffalo.What is the point here? Bad relationships? Immaturity continues? What is the writing trying to convey? An absolute stinker in the sense of the word. You will cheer when The End lights up the screen.

John Delucas Austin Chick's movie starts with a great shimmer, gruff Ruffalo follows an enigmatic prey in the shape of Maya Strange home, hand-held camera as much as a voyeur as he is. What emerges is a College frat party where Ruffalo rolls around with Maya and her best girl pal Kathleen Robertson who have a greater understanding of sexual sharing than Ruffalo.Despite Ruffalo's obvious attraction to Maya, though more than willing to fool around with both, when the film fast forward's to a decade later, Ruffalo is shacked up with clean and sensible Claire in a subtle performance by Petra Wright From now, the film falls as flat as Ruffalo's new nerdy haircut. What exactly happened in those 10 years? It's in there somewhere but suddenly we're watching a completely different, slower, duller film that we no longer care about. The inevitable reappearance of one of the college girls is no surprise (nor a surprise as to who it is) and the artificial denouement leads to further disappointment. A huge anti-climax.

lavatch After suffering through "Closer," I honestly was not prepared for another depressing film filled with artificial dialogue that purportedly deals with contemporary "adult" relationships. But that is precisely the kind of clichéd material that "XX/YY" recycles in this embarrassing film experience. How is it possible for an actor to say the line "there is no room for honesty in a healthy relationship" with a straight face?The characters, story, and even the film's style were all unbearable. The editing of this film was amateurish, and there were too many awkward close-ups on the characters smoking, drinking, kissing, vomiting, and even flossing their teeth! The story traces the development of three characters who bounce around to different relationships. We see the threesome in their exuberant, youthful phase. And at the midpoint of the film, we meet them in their "mature" phase. But the problem with the screenplay is that the characters do not really change. By the end of the film, I wanted to take Mark Rufalo's character aside and give him some good advice, as follows: "Grow up!"

squatsified Excellent cast and intensity throughout. All characters and situations relatable to the twenty and thirty-something audience and quite believable. I just thought it moved a bit too slowly and felt long. It takes a drastic leap in time in the last half, and the cast pulls it off. But it does slow down the film a bit. Very sexy film.