Strange Bedfellows

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2005)

Any movie that can make me appreciate (simultaneously) the acting skills of Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and John Malkovich is doing something pretty remarkable. Yet by the end, they'd each rocketed up my list of favorite actors, and I suddenly started looking for movies with Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, and Catherine Keener, too. It's a tribute to the great script, great directing, and actors willing to take a chance on something that must have looked pretty strange on paper when it was just a screenplay. We all owe some gratitude to John Malkovich (the actor, not the character in this movie) for his willingness to give the movie a shot. I can't imagine it working with any other actor in the title character/role.