When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years. Nancy (Maria Bello) says she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing? Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric). Nancy and Louis are both wounded souls and they take comfort in one another through e-mails, pictures and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life!! While she pursues the freedom that she feels she believes it will only come with ultimate liberation. Albert is left behind to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.
Nancy (a sallow, up-for-three-days-looking Maria Bello) is on a final tour of pleasures to a gaming arcade of the kind beloved in her youth. This is a good indication of the weightiness in store. It’s also Renck’s most effective stab at creating genuine sympathy for an utterly broken main character. It comes when Nancy’s palpable sadness is already resonating. But her other more unpalatable characteristics as a maniacally self-involved, juvenile pain fetishist and attention junkie have yet to be teased out? 1 1/2* (I really did not like this movie)
96 min, Drama directed by Johan Renck with Josh Strait, Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Michael Nyqvist, Amy Brenneman, David Lawrence Brown, Kimberly Elek
Note: Amazon 3.6* out of 5* with 69 ratings, Slant Magazine 2* out of 4* Ryan Stewart, Rotten Tomatoes 19% with 32 critic reviews 43% with 5000+ audience scores, Metacritic 19 out of 100 with 11 critic reviews 7.5 out of 10 with 8 user scores, Letterboxd 2.8* out of 5*.
Special Note: Originally, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Radha Mitchell and Stellan Skarsgard were attached to this project. Set to start filming in June 2005 but production was delayed due to Holly Hunter's pregnancy. Start date was moved to June 2006 but the schedule fell apart and Holly Hunter abandoned the project. Soundtrack for the U.S. trailer entitled "Bipolar Darts" composed and performed by Marion Dean.
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