4 Nights in the Hamptons

well I would like to say for those who wish to see something with not just words, but underlining and layers of emotions. this movie is laid back and nicely well done, not perfect, but in emotions you don't want perfect. I think the movie shows how love and life and every thing one think something should be may just lead to whatever, and that we don't have to stay focused every moment of our lives. if you wanna do see something that is an enjoyable and thought provoking movie, that will let you and your partner maybe look at life in many a refreshed way. this is not a movie for those who are closed to being here and there and just themselves.

If this movie is any indication (I'd never seen or heard of him before), Michael Knowles is a pretty good actor and a competent director - but he's a TERRIBLE writer. Both the story and the dialog in this movie are so horrible that I was able to watch it ONLY because I wanted to see if it's really as bad as most online reviewers say it is. It is, but then it isn't.

It has so many great assets, most notably the beautiful location and a surprisingly good cinematographer. The movie LOOKS fantastic. I'd never understood why people love the Hamptons, and now I do. What a wonderful place!

And I really do think Knowles has some talent, but he needs to let somebody else do the writing. (And the casting - he's the only good actor here; the woman who plays his wife isn't terrible, but the other two are, especially the unbearable woman who plays Marc's brassy, trashy, braying, monster-boobed girlfriend - WHAT A HORROR!)

Besides the persistently annoying story, bad casting, and idiotic, infuriating dialog, the abundance of full female nudity and complete lack of ANY male nudity are inexcusable in a movie with gay pretensions. Marc never even takes his shirt off, and wonderfully pale and dumpy and hairy David does it only once.

I hated this movie, but I'm giving it two stars because (1) it shows how truly beautiful the Hamptons are, and (2) it makes me want to see Michael Knowles in something else.

You'd have to be very unhappy and hopelessly jaded to not enjoy this film, or perhaps just too young to understand anything about it. I was intrigued from beginning to end and completely mesmerized by the stunning cinematography, the beautifully naturalistic scripting and acting, as well as the absolute beauty of all four characters and actors. This is an intense study on the fragility of the human spirit, the bargaining and compromising of co-existence, and the depth and complexity of the constant reckoning of our lives we face daily... by the hour.

There's a lot packed into this film and it gracefully dances on some vulnerabilities that most of us can't even admit to harboring. Very smart and concise without a grain of fluff. A good story is always about what isn't said. If you want to see a reflection of life that hammers out the truth and spoon-feeds you every bite, then watch an action film or Dirty Dancing. If you prefer films that allow you to explore what people are actually thinking, then let yourself go... and enjoy this. A nice, refreshing swim.

All involved do a great job. Unsettling pace/rhythm which the dialogue delivers spot on, keeping this underlying level of unease and strange edge of seatness even though this is dialogue driven, not action or cgi or such, though it does not leave one missing such. Well put together. A subtle end delivers contentment, but this is not a kid or 1st date type of comedy and movie. It's a movie that while often you feel one thing, the characters are saying just the opposite. Smart and delivered with continued wonderful but tense rhythm. Michael Knowles both acts and directs in the movie, which is no trouble and probably the best decision as why stand behind the characters when you can sit with them? Watch this and "The trouble with bliss" his prior movie I believe, which was hilarious funny, not oh s3!* funny:), and you'll see and hear the directors style, or shaping of things. Very cool.

Decent acting and script kept this movie from totally imploding. The dialogue between the 4 characters was surprising mature and more serious than the typical small talk. Didn't need to see female nudity....it served no purpose other than to attract male hetero eyeballs. And the writer/director needed to shave the face and lose 30 lbs before casting himself. I'm 100% gay and it was obvious when he was naked in the shower with his on screen wife, that SHE had the better body and he was just fat, hairy and dumpy all over. He wasn't someone the hot bodied, blond stud would EVER want to go down on....and yet he did. It was refreshing that we didn't see the typical FREAK OUT emotional scenes that happen when there's some apparent cheating going on between spouses or love birds. People can have affairs without it being the end of the world.....sex is not the only thing that matters in life. In this movie, we seem to see a rekindling of sexual interests between the married couple, after they realize they both are a lot more sexually adventurous than they previously knew. Not much of a message here except to say that sex should not be that big of a deal....and that it should be about having fun, without a ton of drama.