A painfully self-conscious comedy that mistakes relentless self-referentiality for cleverness, this half-witted misfire is filled with accelerated motion, repeated and overlapping scenes, direct address to the camera and other cliches of
defamiliarization. Suburban salaryman Fletcher Munson (writer/director Steven Soderbergh) toils for the quasi-religious empire of T. Azimuth Schwitters (Mike Malone), a hypocritical, Ron Hubbard-like prophet of self-actualization. In a strip-mall parking lot, Munson crosses paths with his exact
double, dentist Jeffrey Korchak (Soderbergh again, of course), and discovers that Korchak is having an affair with his wife (Betsy Brantley...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins