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The cast shines in this dramatic comedy about a young filmmaker (Jeremy Sisto) trying to get over the death of his beautiful wife (GH'sVanessa Marcil). Sisto leaves LA (after a very funny scene where he attacks Garry Marshall with a pen) and returns to his hometown, San Francisco, where he hangs out with a bizarre bunch of friend who help him get his life back on track. Eric Palladino is hilarious as Sisto's sex-obsessed friend from high school. But masturbation and sexual fetish talk aside the film actually is more successful in its softer areas where we see Sisto's affection for his dead wife and the road he travels in order to move on with his life. The crowd that I saw this with in Seattle loved it. Highly recommended if you can get a chance to see this one.

I saw this movie at the Tahoe International Film Festival (1999) after someone there told me to check it out. What a self-indulgent, long-winded piece of work this is. The dialogue tries so hard to be witty and all it does, save for a few very funny lines, is come of stale and unnatural. A perfect example is the scene where "The boys" sit around a bar and argue over which TV star from their childhood was the hottest babe. Gee, haven't seen that before. It felt like it was 3 hours long. I was shocked to read that it clocks in at about 1 hour 45 min. I have to admit that Shatner was pretty funny though I still wish he had said "no" to this project as they would then not have been able to make it. The producer/writer spoke afterwards and said that the film had picked up a distributor who was opening it this summer in L.A. and New York before rolling it out to more theaters. What distributor would put up a dime for this thing is beyond me even with Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) and Shatner's performances.