The Dilemma
Tags: bleak, romantic, psychedelic, stupid

Plot synopsis:
Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are best friends and partners in a small auto design firm. Ronny is in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly) while Nick is married to Geneva (Winona Ryder). The two have recently been given an opportunity to pitch an eco friendly car to Dodge.
While at a botanical gardens planning a way to propose marriage to Beth, Ronny sees Geneva kissing a man named Zip (Channing Tatum). He comes home upset, but lies to Beth about the reason, causing her to worry that the stress of work has caused a recurrence of Ronny's gambling addiction.
Ronny makes up his mind to inform Nick about Geneva's infidelity, but puts it off after Nick expresses stress about their work. He meets with Geneva, who promises that the affair is over and that she will tell Nick as soon as the big project is finished. Ronny subsequently discovers her and Zip continuing their relationship. Geneva then threatens to accuse Ronny of hitting on her and tell Nick about a fling they had had back in college.
Ronny follows Geneva to Zip's house and photographs the two of them together but becomes trapped inside and misses his in-laws' anniversary party. Ronny's increasingly erratic behavior leads his friends to think that he has begun gambling again. They hold an intervention for him but Ronny explains the truth behind his actions and Geneva admits to the affair. Later, Nick and Ronny have their design accepted by Dodge and Ronny proposes to Beth.

Review: So a light-hearted buddy flick with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, and directed by Ron Howard, seemed like just the right change of pace.Unfortunately, the actual film has little resemblance to the film advertised in the trailer.
Sure the comedy scenes are present: Vince gives an acidic toast, Kevin James does his fat-man dance, and Channing Tatum plays an off-center tattooed boy toy with a loaded gun and dead fish.
Ronny Valentine (Vince Vaughn) is Nick Brannen's (Kevin James) best friend from college and partner in their own auto design firm.
The Dilemma is presented as a conflict that Vince Vaughn has when he sees his best friend and business partner's wife having an affair.
Vince had his typically banter and rhetoric in some scenes, but the movie was just too heavy and too over the top with story lines for me to count...or to recommend.I also didn't like Queen L in this...she overacted her scenes and her character just didn't seem to fit in enough to make it worth her paycheck.
How could one go wrong with a cast like Jennifer Connelly, Vince Vaughn, Winona Ryder, Kevin James and Queen Latifah?
or when Ronny catches Geneva (Winona Ryder) cheating on best friend Nick (Kevin James), should he tell him?
For what should be a simple buddy comedy, they added way too many sub-plots and although there were a few laughs, it was mostly boring and not all that funny.By the end, the film settled down a bit more, and we got to concentrate on Ronny and Nick.
"The Dilemma" is the exact sort of film I try to avoid seeing: It bills itself as a comedy, but the laughs are few and far between; I haven't liked Vince Vaughn in anything else except "Swingers"; I don't care for Kevin James or Queen Latifah; and the movie's basically a two-hour commercial for the Dodge Challenger.
Nonetheless, when my friends dragged me to see it, I actually sort of enjoyed the movie.The basic plot of the movie is that best-friends-since-college Ronny and Nick (Vaughn and James) run an engineering firm that is vying to help redesign the engine of the new Dodge Challenger to be more eco-friendly without losing the macho factor.
And finally, there are also the performances by the two female leads: Jennifer Connelly has always been great, going back to her years as a child actor; and Winona Ryder (who I had a crush on in the early '90's and who is as beautiful as ever pushing 40) looks ready for a career comeback in her biggest role since her shoplifting conviction.As an aside, I also want to say that there a couple of scenes with a very subtle political (pro-tea-party) undercurrent that I disagree with.
At times it was quite moving,and I could understand the position Vince Vaugn was in,but then the comedy was "thrown" in and people were expected to laugh...strange film..I have a tip for the cast; Choose your projects more carefully,this film won't enhance your reputation....or your career.I have a tip for Mr Howard; When reviewing the daily rushes,don't be afraid to re-shoot something that doesn't look right to you..If it doesn't look right to you,it won't look right to the paying public.At least 7 people got up and walked out of the viewing I was at,some as early as 15 minutes into it.................
The Dilemma is an entertaining comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.
If you appreciate Vince Vaughn and Kevin James as actors you'll enjoy this film and I did feel they had a great chemistry.
With a cast that involves Vince Vaughn and Kevin James it motivates people to watch it.If you're looking for a comedy and expect to be in hysterics throughout the entire film this probably isn't the greatest one to watch.
Ron Howard has been successful in entertaining me and making good movies, and you can add The Dilemma to a list that also includes Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Cinderella Man, and Parenthood.
Vaughn stars as Ronny Valentine, who runs a car business with his best friend, Nick (played by Kevin James).
Vaughn gives a hilarious performance where he makes you compassionate in what he is going through.James is great as Nick, and shows that he still as talent as a comedy actor.
James makes you feel bad for him even though he doesn't know what is really going on with Ronny.Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder are both also great as they are Vaughn's and James's female counterparts.
What I like best about Ryder's performance is that she makes Geneva out to be the bad one and is hilarious at threatening Ronny.Overall, this is a fun comedy that continues to be funny as Ronny keeps getting himself into bigger and bigger trouble.
Mitch Hansch/ movieswithmitch.com Ron Howard's "The Dilemma" is a multi-faulted film in search of itself but one that actually has something interesting to say and that's led by a highly charged performance from lead Vince Vaughn.
This film may get a lot of flack for indecisiveness but it's that same trait that fuels Vaughn's complex character's- and forgive me this- dilemma.Ronny Valentine (Vince Vaughn) catches his best friend's wife Geneva, played by Winona Ryder, cheating.
Ronny's habit of lying to solve the problems around him is perfectly summed up by Beth (Jennifer Connelly) his serious girlfriend; "You're not fixing anything, you're just breaking more stuff." One thing director Howard really taps into is the heavy responsibilities that come with having a best friend and how sensitive that relationship can be.
Connelly and Ryder also handle their own weight just fine while Kevin James never reaches any other emotion than anxious and fearful while Queen Latifah's lame sexual metaphor spouting part is all but forgotten.The climax takes place in the usually comedic setting of an intervention that doesn't know how to spilt time between comedy and dark drama.
Kevin James and Vince Vaughn did well in more serious roles, though they were clearly trying to make the film funnier.So don't watch it with high expectations, and look at it as an amusing drama rather than as a comedy.
Oh maybe they paid Ron Howard to do it because he has not had work in a while and you thought he could turn crum into gold?Guys welcome to becoming the new Cuba Gooding Jr's with your careers I see plenty of lame slapstick comedies and B movies in your future unless you start taking yourselves more seriously and picking scripts worthy of your talent.Or maybe this was your peak?I don't even want my money back just the time invested!!
And sure enough, the movie delivered right on the money.The story told in the movie is about the two best friends, Ronny Valentine (played by Vince Vaughn) and Nick Branned (played by Kevin James).
The story is very interesting and compelling, and you really get yourself into the story and situations, so they managed to portray this quite nicely.Aside from Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, the movie also have big names like Jennifer Connelly (playing Beth), Wynona Ryder (playing Geneva) and Queen Latifah (playing Susan Warner) on the list.
These people were superbly cast and were doing really good jobs with their characters, as were Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.
Jennifer Connelly, Vince Vaughn, Wynona Rider, Channing Tatum, Kevin James, and Ron Howard wasted their talents here, shockingly..
This movie had its funny moments and the storyline was fine enough.Vince Vaughn & Kevin James add some great chemistry to this movie, they should make some more movies together but it probably needs to be movies placed more in the comedy genre.In my opinion this movie wasn't at all as bad as people say it is, I actually liked it a bunch.
That is to say, Ronnie Valentine (Vince Vaughn) struggles to tell his best bud, Nick Brannen (Kevin James) that his wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder), is cheating on him.My dilemma is that this is billed as a comedy when the laughs are few and the action is drama-oriented if you judge by the heartache Ronnie goes through trying to decide what to do.
Many will go into this movie expecting a roll on the floor comedy since Vince Vaughn and Kevin James are the leads.
There are a lot of funny moments in this movie that will have you laughing out loud if you like the Vince Vaughn brand of humor of getting under people's skin.Queen Latifah is hilarious in this movie too and was actually a breath of fresh air to make up for Kevin James who was a little more on the serious side in this movie.
Kevin James, who was the 'Best Friend' of Vince Vaughn played his character very well, he's passionate about his work and we see how that effects his marriage.
The film also features Jennifer Connelly, Winona Rider, Kevin James, Queen Latifah, and Channing Tatum, which have all had their fair share of starring roles in movies and they helped make this one worth seeing as well.You won't come away thinking this is the best movie you have ever seen, or that it has a complex story, but it is entertaining and will provide you with a lot of good laughs.
The Dilemma starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James as Ronny and Nick who we see are best friends and business partners whose company is on the verge of a major success.
While wrestling with this, Ronny himself becomes a bit of a liar, keeping from his girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly) all that he's going through and winding up in uncomfortable predicaments because of it.The Dilemma has its moments at times but isn't so much of a comedy than a drama.
We watched it again last night and still thought it was good.The movie is about 2 guys, Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, who are best friends and business partners.
The rest of the movie is about Vince trying to catch her out with funny consequences.The casting is good for this film.
He is so funny in this movie.The story is good, the acting is good and it is directed by Ron Howard who is a legend.I will give this film 7 out of 10.A good comedy with not too much of the romance.
One of them discovers the others' wife is cheating so his "dilemma" is whether to tell his friend what he has discovered.The film is billed as a comedy, but very difficult to find much that is funny in the movie, though it is not so bad as at least I watched it to the end.My main problem with the picture is the two main actors look very similar in facial appearance and for me it was a major annoyance and was confusing.5/10.
Even though I did not like the most recent films from director Ron Howard (with the honourable exception of Frost/Nixon), I keep getting interested in his filmography because I never loose the hope of finding the solid dominion of emotions and balance of humor and drama which distinguished him as an important personality in North American cinema, whose movies fulfilled with the difficult task of raising a lot of money, and at the same time satisfying the professional critics.
I generally like the work from Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, but The Dilemma required genuine character actors, and not comedians whose antics betray the essence itself from every scene.
The film offers some funny moments, and also packs in some good performances....but in totality, the film is half-baked.'The Dilemma' is about Ronny played by Vince Vaughn, and Nick played by Kevin James, two best friends and partners in an auto design firm.
More importantly, it seemed to be right in the wheelhouse of the good, old Ron Howard, the man who directed "Night Shift," "Cocoon," and "Splash." You know, back before he became an "important" filmmaker.I wanted to see this film in the movies, but it disappeared too fast for me to see it there.
Vaughan manage to keep his face strained for the entire movie, you gotta love the combination of Vince Vaughn and Kevin James in that movie, its like Seth Regen with Jonah hill, only with a different aspect of humor (which is obviously much more suitable for adults).the combination of Winonah Ryder and Jennifer Connelly was kinda odd (this i must agree with some of the review's) because one actress is known to act an adventures reporter and one is known to act weird character's (in most films iv seen).
Vaughn's character is bent on protecting his best friend's, Kevin James's, marriage by a thoroughly single minded insistence on James learning of his wife's, Ryder's, infidelity despite the potential consequences, say, like, destroying the marriage perhaps?Time invested here is misspent.
I was wrong...a Vince Vaughn/Kevin James film CAN be bad.
He was skeptical, and I had the utmost confidence that any film starring The King of Queens and Vince Vaughn could not possibly be bad."That's what you said about the movie with Kevin James and Ray Romano!"Ah, yes.
Vince Vaughn and Kevin James are best friends who are both in relationships.
The idea for this had so much potential, I think Vince Vaughn can be very funny and that Ron Howard is a talented director but what in the heck were they thinking?!This movie takes a very dark turn even though it was marketed as a silly comedy.
Well Ronny and Nick (i.e. Vaughan and James) you can't act for love nor money - that is what this film is saying loud and clear.I will exclude from the acting blemishes Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, and Channing Tatum who do at least try, but pretty much everybody else was wasted.Although I have given this five I am rapidly feeling the need to reduce it to two to match the pleasure it gave me watching it.
The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard, doesn't seem like the type of film that Howard is directing these days and it shows that Howard wasn't comfortable with this genre.The film stars the usually funny Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, as well as Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Channing Tatum, Clint Howard and Queen Latifah.Vaughn's character has a lot to do in the film, but the comedic seems don't come off as funny, but rather stupid and dull at times.
¨One would expect that a film starring Kevin James (the King of Queens) and Vince Vaughn would be a hilarious comedy, but The Dilemma takes a very different approach and the movie feels more like a drama than an actual buddy comedy, which is what I was expecting and wish it had been so.
I was hugely disappointed with the film and I'm still trying to classify as to what genre they were aiming for when they wrote this story.Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) have been best friends ever since their college days, now they've decided to partner together for their own electronic car design business.
Indies have a way of mixing drama and humor and "The Dilemma" could use a lesson or five in making that hybrid work.Vaughn's experience in some independent films and non-traditional comedies actually makes him a good fit for Ronny, someone who we must sympathize with in order to stand watching this movie, which in fact does stay watchable.
THE DILEMMA – TRASH IT ( C- ) Biggest mistake, we think its Vince Vaughn & Kevin James so, it will be a comedy.
The DilemmaIf you ever discover that your best friend's wife is cheating on him, get her to bring your wife along next time, so that you can hangout with your buddy.Unfortunately, the pal privy to the amorality of his chum's chick in this comedy handles the information the wrong way.While scouting the botanical gardens for his pending proposal, Ronny (Vince Vaughn) spots Geneva (Winona Ryder), the wife of his best friend Nick (Kevin James), kissing another man (Channing Tatum).Displeased by this discovery, Ronny begins a campaign to expose Geneva.
Ron Howard back to doing comedies and both Vince Vaughn and Kevin James are funny guys.
The Dilemma is not the film he was hoping for, he takes a huge backseat in terms of screen time and comedy to Vince Vaughn.
I'm a Vince Vaughn fan and this is one of his worst films as well but at least he still does his thing and tries to make it work (and he is pretty funny at times).
The situation that actors Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder are thrown into with Channing Tatum's home wrecking character Zip is usually very dark in nature, but has a slight comedic twist added to it by Howard.
Ronny (Vince Vaughan) unwittingly witnesses Geneva (Winona Ryder), the wife of his best friend and business partner Nick (Kevin James) having a clandestine romantic encounter with Zip (Channing Tatum).
The story is about two best friends Ronny(Vince Vaughn) and Nick(Kevin James), they have been friends for many years, and are both are the verge on success in business together.
But with all this going on Beth tries to find out what Ronnie is up to and their relationship is going down hill Vince Vaughn & Kevin James are great in their roles as well as Jennifer Connelly.
i would understand why they would consider it a comedy because of Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, and queen latifah are in it.
for example how is Vince Vaughn going to tell his friend Kevin James that his wife is cheating on him, and will they beak up or make up.
The Dilemma is about Vince Vaughn's painful struggle over whether or  not to tell his best friend (played by Kevin James) that his best  friend's wife (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him.
The Dilemma (2011): Dir: Ron Howard / Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Channing Tatum: Misfire comedy about relationships.