Something to Talk About (1995)

In SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT, aka A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S GUIDE TO INFIDELITY, 
the characters don't really talk at all.  Sure, there's a confession 
here, and a frank comment there-- the latter usually coming from Kyra 
Sedgwick, smartly cast as Julia Robert's lookalike sister.  Instead, 
most of the story time is spend on jokey outbursts, such as when Roberts 
stands up in the middle of a meeting to ask if anyone *else* has slept 
with her husband (Dennis Quaid, having a had hair day).   
 
Scenes like these are too cutesy for what writer Callie Khouri (THELMA 
AND LOUISE) is trying to dig at.  They disrupt the tone, much in the 
same way that slapstick diminished the delivery of NINE MONTHS.  (Of 
course, Hugh Grant wasn't married.  Oh, wait, that was real life.) By 
the second hour, Khouri's point is lost as she inexplicably points her 
characters toward a happily-ever-after finale that you can see coming 
from a mile off.  Maybe *that's* her point. 
 
Grade: C+ 
Copyright 1995 Michael J. Legeros
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