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I Melt with You
- Director: Mark Pellington
- Writer: Mark Pellington; Glenn Porter
- Producer: Michael Cowan; Rob Cowan
CGiii Comment
4 x 44-year-old white, professional men, 1 gay, re-unite...to party...hard.
The alcohol and drugs consumed over these few days...is enough to keep Amsterdam swinging for a week.
The pace is frenetic, the soundtrack...deafening. Pellington is a director of music videos - it shows...to the detriment of the film. The sound levels are all over the place - drowning out the dialogue is not exactly clever.
Technically, it is comfortably accomplished. The performances, Lowe is a revelation, are strong. The writing is a little weak in places...the premise is, perhaps, a little hard to swallow considering the intelligence of the characters.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Middle aged Jonathan, Richard, Rob and Tim are friends from their college days, each who has had some modicum of success in his life, but each who is facing an issue resulting in dissatisfaction with his current lot. Divorced father Jonathan is a physician whose practice is largely made up of wealthy patients for who he writes prescriptions for drugs for recreational use in return for payola. Party boy Richard was once a novelist, but now resorts to teaching high school English to make a living. Stockbroker Ron is happily married with kids, but in providing for his family, he decided to steal from his clients which has now resulted in a probable indictment by the Securities Commission for embezzlement. And five years ago, openly bisexual Tim was the driver that caused an accident which killed both his sister and his boyfriend, the guilt surrounding which still remains with him.
Cast & Characters
Thomas Jane as Richard;
Jeremy Piven as Ron;
Rob Lowe as Jonathan;
Christian McKay as Tim;
Carla Gugino as Officer Boyde;
Tom Bower as Captain Bob;
Arielle Kebbel as Randi;
Zander Eckhouse as Jonah;
Abhi Sinha as Ryan;
Sasha Grey as Raven