Themes: Twentysomething Life, Faltering Friendships, Love Triangles
Main Cast: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor
Release Year: 1994
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) looking on. At the couple's rehearsal dinner, Sarah confesses privately to Frank her attraction to him, but what she doesn't know is that Frank is in love with her. They share a kiss, which leads to an argument between Joe and Frank at their next meeting, a weekly poker game with their buddies. At a video shoot, a dinner party, another poker game, and a few more celebrations, the friendship between the three of them is challenged by the nascent attraction between Frank and Sarah. In the meantime, the all-male poker game is invaded by Athena (Parker Posey) and Lauren (Joey Lauren Adams), and a party guest, Sid (Quentin Tarantino), delivers a memorable treatise on the homoerotic subtext of Top Gun (1986). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
J.Michael Gorman - Art Director, Ellie Kanner - Casting, Isis Mussenden - Costume Designer, Fernando Altschul - First Assistant Director, Rory Kelly - Director, David Moritz - Editor, Joel Castleberg - Executive Producer, David Lawrence - Composer (Music Score), Giovanni Di Simone - Musical Direction/Supervision, Randy Eriksen - Production Designer, Andrzej Sekula - Cinematographer, Eric Stoltz - Producer, Michael Steinberg - Producer, Roger Hedden - Producer, Rana Joy Glickman - Producer, Adam Mead Faletti - Set Designer, Neal Jimenez - Screenwriter, Michael Steinberg - Screenwriter, Roger Hedden - Screenwriter, Rory Kelly - Screenwriter, Duane Dell'amico - Screenwriter, Joe Keenan - Screenwriter
