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David Searching

1998, Movie, NR, 101 mins

David Searching: Review

DAVID SEARCHING
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A slight and self-absorbed first film about a slight and self-absorbed would-be NYC documentary filmmaker named David (Anthony Rapp, star of the Broadway production of "Rent"), his queen-sized and almost-divorced roommate Gwen (Camryn Manheim, of TV's The Practice) and their joint search for Mr. Right and the meaning of life. David is in a funk over his nonexistent career and sex life. Gwen and David go on many bad dates with New York types who obsess about hummus, quote promiscuously from chic authors and care too much about their clothes. David, who films everything important about his life (which he seems to think is everything) works on a film in which he asks people to share an absolute truth. Gwen, who has mixed feelings about her impending divorce, finds solace in the arms of Walter (Joseph Fuqua), a pretentious stud muffin who used to live in Gwen and David's apartment. They meet when he uses his old keys to let himself in and passes out on the couch, having been on a bender sparked by a fight with his girlfriend. David meets a downtown comedian named Julie (real-life downtown comedian Julie Halston), who gives career advice. There's a lot of walking in the park, accompanied by sensitive songs about relationships, and lots of ruefully comic dialogue, much of which has a distinctly Seinfeld-ish cast. "Cappuccino in a can: Who'd have thought it?" The film is very polished considering its absurdly low budget, and the cast is studded with cameos by New York theater types, including Steven Spinella and Kathleen Chalfant ("Angels in America"), John Cameron Mitchell ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch") and David Drake ("The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me"). It's ingratiating and well-intentioned, but we know where that road leads. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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