Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

davideo-2 STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsA documentary film-maker follows seven people who's love lives inadvertently interwine around each other around and asks them for their views on the matter as well as the complications and scenarios that can arise from it.There's Tommy (Edward Burns,also directing) a slickly dressed,distinctly New Yorkan movie producer who starts a relationship with school teacher Maria (Rosario Dawson) but ends up developing feelings for real estate seller Annie (Heather Graham).Annie is married to Griffin (Stanley Tucci) a dentist,who's cheating on her with Ashley (Brittany Murphy),a waitress at a cafe.Ashley starts getting hit on by parking valet Ben (David Krumholtz),Maria's ex.Over the course of the film,we see how the lives of these apparently different but under-lyingly connecting people pan out.I'm not sure if this is his directorial debut or not,but if it is,Burns has hit a high note.Setting it in what must be his home city,his authentic New Yorker accent plays well against the backdrop of the film's setting.He also has some marvellous chemistry in the scenes with Dennis Farina in the supporting role as his father Carpo.All the characters are very well-written and very easy to connect with on a personal level with the documentary style one-to-one commentary each one of them is provided with,matched by strong performances from those playing them.The script is also strong and sparkling and provides much witty lines and good dialogue for the cast to work with.Where the movie falters slightly is with the flow of the story,with not quite enough emotional and stable depth invested in to either the plot or the characters for the climax to have the full emotional impact that it could and should have had.Overall though,Burns has taken a clever concept and made it work wonders.Highly recommended.****

propaganda21 When actor/director Edward Burn's The Brothers McMullan was released back in 1995, the critics likened it to a Woody Allen comedy. Now it seems that Mr Burns has brazenly gone one step further and remade Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992) with slight plot changes and a younger cast of characters and of course an alternate title. Somehow this rewrite fails to capture the zany spark of the original, which is an excellent movie (try watching both movies back to back). Perhaps the only noteworthy thing about this movie are the performances: Rosario Dawson is excellent as the teacher who gets pregnant after a one night stand. As a matter a fact, her performance is the only thing that redeems this movie, since all the other characters are caught up in full Woody Allen film mimicry mode, some perhaps unintentionally. It's a shame that Mr Burns didn't run with the pregnant-after-a-one-night-stand plot thread as he might have turned out a movie of more merit and certainly one of more originality. 4/10 for effort minus 2 for borrowing heavily from another director. Shame on you, Edward Burns!

forecastmazy Edward Burns is kind of like a younger, cooler, clever Woody Allen. Not so much going on satire and art, Edward Burns films are modern art commenting on the condition of dating, especially in NYC. His films really are just best described as likeable films. I personally believe these films can be liked by everybody because their films that everybody, at some point, will relate to. Sidwalks of New York was a film I was urging myself to see for a while. After seeing No Looking Back, another great Burns flick, I rented this film and found it charming, true, and honest. I like Edward Burns and personally think if this coast was as stoned as California is we'd be voting him into office right alongside a rapstar.

hepcat70 Heather Graham, in one of her better performances, and Dennis Farina as comedic relief, provide much of this film's minor merits. Otherwise, it's a pretty cynical exercise, and the device of having the characters talk to an unseen interviewer is made doubly annoying by the fact that the characters' observations are banal and uninteresting (the device was used to great effect in a French movie A Pornographic Affair). I found all the male characters to be thoroughly unsympathetic, ranging from pathetic (the doorman), totally lacking in introspection (Burns), and venal (Tucci). While I'm sure Burns would say the point was to show how screwed-up men can be, I don't think it does anybody any favours to repeatedly depict men stalking and showing up unannounced to exes and flames' apartments/houses. Reinforces that this is somewhat understandable and normal behaviour. And, aside from the one couple (perhaps), these characters' dwellings are preposterous given their station in life, unless we're to believe they all have large trust funds.