Although my wife really enjoys this movie, I have watched it with her on tape twice now and despite many people really loving this film, I can't stand it.
Although the actors are good, somehow the dialogue and character behavior is almost always unnatural, the characters are unidimensional in that everything is about sex or some juvenile understanding of love, and it is very slowly paced, with long pauses between lines. It is hard to care about these characters, and the story seems written by someone with little real understanding of people. For these reasons, it seems like a porno movie minus the sex scenes. (And there is someone smoking in pretty much every scene!).
And so, be warned: the film is not for everyone. If you enjoy it for whatever reason (the 1980s nostalgia or Teddy Pendergrass music are good reasons), great, but if you don't, don't think you are "not getting" anything.
Although the actors are good, somehow the dialogue and character behavior is almost always unnatural, the characters are unidimensional in that everything is about sex or some juvenile understanding of love, and it is very slowly paced, with long pauses between lines. It is hard to care about these characters, and the story seems written by someone with little real understanding of people. For these reasons, it seems like a porno movie minus the sex scenes. (And there is someone smoking in pretty much every scene!).
And so, be warned: the film is not for everyone. If you enjoy it for whatever reason (the 1980s nostalgia or Teddy Pendergrass music are good reasons), great, but if you don't, don't think you are "not getting" anything.