I'm all for some equality in movies, and will admit that more often then not it's the female characters that are stereotypes in films, but that is no reason for a double-standard. I can certainly see people disregarding this review as some chauvinistic diatribe, but I can seriously state that the film isn't even that great once you get beyond the male bashing. She happens to work at cheesy Oprah-like talk show that would make Kelsey Grammer's Top Story in 15 Minutes look like fine broadcast journalism. This show, hosted by Ellen Barkin's Diane Roberts, brings on right-wing speakers to accuse them of hypocrisy and further female empowerment. Simply put, males, like the head bull of a herd, choose not to want a woman once he has already had her.
Women are disposable to men and monogamy is an impossibility.
If anything comes from this film, it is the ongoing nailing on the coffin representing Ashley Judd's acting career. She does show a sweet side, something not present in the femme from Eye of the Beholder and the vandetta-driven mother in Double Jeopardy , but there is not enough to ensure a career that might stand up against, say, Julia Roberts. Hugh Jackman and Greg Kinnear sufficiently mar their respective filmographies. Jackman's new to the industry, but this is not the film to follow Wolverine in X-Men , a potential star making role. And this is not the first blemish for Kinnear, he gives them to us about as steadily as he makes respectable films, but I do hate to see him giving a bad performance.