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Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

“Marianne” (Lara Flynn Boyle) is sexily awaiting the

“Marianne” (Lara Flynn Boyle) is sexily awaiting the return home from work of her executive husband “Jeffrey” (Jonny Lee Miller) but he just mutters something about a jockstrap and shows her little interest. Exasperated, she also needs an handyman to do some household plumbing and so alights on “Lucky” (Nick Nolte). Now he is married to “Phyllis” (Julie Christie) but isn’t averse to playing away from home now and again and so, well what now ensues rather surprised me. Not because it’s very good, but because Julie Christie took part in it. For a film that’s about relationships, possessiveness and sex it’s a shockingly sterile exercise with JLM as wooden as picket fence and Nolte just not at all convincing as the sex magnet his aptly named character would have us believe. “Phyllis” is an erstwhile actress and is a classy woman too, so what she’d ever have seen in her scruffy philandering husband didn’t leap of the screen at me in the first place. The same could be said of the plausibility of the other marriage that’s unsurprisingly struggling here. Perhaps the scenario is supposed to engender empathy from those of us in marriages that have entered cruise control and that have no longer any flare in them, but I just couldn’t find anything about any of these people that I wanted to like, so I couldn’t really have cared less. I did quite like the house with all the gadgets (maybe not the blue lights) but the rest of this, save for some acerbic dialogue from Christie, just didn’t really impress, sorry.

Reviewed by Boyo-2 5 / 10

Great to see Julie Christie, at least

I like Alan Rudolph movies. I always thought of him as Robert Altman Lite. When I saw "Welcome to L.A." in 1902 (I am exaggerating, but barely), I loved it and it seemed very Altman-like, and even starred some of the Altman-ettes like Geraldine Chaplin and Sissy Spacek. Most of the people were unhappy and if I'm not mistaken, Chaplin spends the whole movie in taxi cabs, taking pictures of the corners of buildings. When I saw "Choose Me" years later, it had a breezy, jazzy feel to it that I loved. It was about people in love, unlucky in love, wanting more love, wanting love from someone else, etc. "Afterglow" is a little like both of these movies. It has its jazz soundtrack intact and the people are miserable. In a nutshell, Julie and Nick haven't had a decent moment together since before they can remember. Lara and Johnny Lee are much younger but also accumulating many bad moments. Secrets are revealed. Both couples switch mates. They are not that much happier. Both find out about the other. That's it. Nolte and Julie Christie have some good scenes together, but she has much more chemistry with Johnny Lee Miller, who gives the best performance in the movie by a mile. He nails his role as a yuppie/scumbag perfectly. The whole thing is way too long. There are unnecessary scenes galore. If it were not for Julie Christie, I would have lasted 20 minutes w/this one. 5/10.

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Afterglow

1997

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Afterglow

1997

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

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“Marianne” (Lara Flynn Boyle) is sexily awaiting the

Great to see Julie Christie, at least

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