Mike Nichols has done way better but.....

Rating: 3/10 (3 December 2004)

Mike Nichols has made some really great films...my favorite is The Bird Cage...but Post Cards from the Edge was pretty good and of course "Working Girl" is a classic...but it was in 1988.
What possessed someone with the resume he has to make this "porno movie" is beyond me?
The drama...a convoluted mixed up flash back on top of flash back "hodge podge" was edited by a moron....and frankly someone paid a lot of bucks to get that cast together to make this thing.
The one scene that has some merit is the Internet chat line scene between Jude Law (Dan a obituary writer for a newspaper) and Clive Owen (Larry the dermatologist). The rest of the movie seems to be an effort to out shock that scene. It gets boring...redundant and less the scantily clad Natalie Portman in a bunch of scenes as "Alice" the stripper. I would have either left or taken a nap.
Honestly, Mike Nichols is way above this in film making. Take the "raw meat" and "raw language" out and you have some really "sick-o" losers trying to cope and you might have found a movie in there someplace.
But this...man I saw Nichols's name and this cast and I even saw some of the "four star" ratings (I usually use that as a barometer to not go to films)....but anyway...I was really excited about this film. It ...well it didn't make my all time "stink-o" for a few good things...but I could not recommend this to anyone with something better to do!