The music is portentous, the production design gloomy and the cinematography oppressively dreary. Seth Warner (Aidan Quinn) is a latter-day Job, a beleaguered New Yorker whose cosmic run of awful luck begins with the drowning of his beloved wife
and ends with a freak tornado sweeping through his house. Naturally, when he takes to the rooftops to wail a cosmic wail of torment, he's struck by lightning. Seth's response to God's torments is to vow he'll break every one of the 10 commandments, one by holy one. Did we mention that this is
ostensibly a comedy, though the only way you'd know it is by paying close attention to the advertising? Chortle as Seth puts other go...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins