Lost Ending?

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2005)

I have been waiting to review this movie for a long time, since I saw it in a small art house way before all the hype of the academy and golden globes. This movie started out somewhat alright, but it messed up by the ending. They had an interesting encounter which showed a lot of how friendship is negotiated in the routine way of daily life. They should have cleared up the mystery of the outcome earlier than the very end, however, this comes at a point later than what I think was the real emotional center of the film. It also glorifies adultery, and extreme age difference, which totally whisks away any admiration for Bill Murray which I might have had in the past, for presenting himself as a reasonable object of a young woman's, almost girl's, interest.