Grimly funny and casually cruel to its four subjects -- who, it must be admitted, bring it all upon themselves -- this fact-based expedition into the New York City dating scene is a blackly funny argument in favor of patching up your current
relationship. British filmmaker Nicholas Barker, trained as an anthropologist and once called "the most sadistic director in British television," found his leads through the personals and recruited them to enact thinly fictionalized versions of their own lives. Mad-at-the-world Michael de Stefano,
a 40-year-old only child driven by the need to carry on the family line, is desperate to get married. He thinks the trouble is that ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins