Writer/director/star Ed Burns's fourth film is a charming, low-key ensemble comedy that recalls the films of both John Cassavetes and Woody Allen, which is to say it's a loosely structured, quasi-improvisational saga about a bunch of New Yorkers obsessing about relationships. On some level it's hard not to feel you've seen it all before. But fortunately, Burns puts enough of his personal, bruised-romantic spin on the material to keep it from feeling like a total retread, and he's also helped immeasurably by a uniformly terrific cast. The plot structure is ramshackle; we're introduced to a series of apparently unrelated characters whose lives eventually intersect and ...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
107 mins