Noah's second film is a strong step forward, more enjoyable, featuring some of the same cast; very much in the Woody Allen vein. Eric Stoltz distrusts his girlfriends, the current one being Annabella Sciorra, to the extent that he stalks her ex (Chris Eigeman) to his therapy session, and joins up under an alibi. (The therapist is none other than Peter Bogdanovich.) In an interesting development, Stoltz adopts the identity of his best friend Carlos Jacott, and in doing so starts to get vicarious therapy for him! Marianne Jean Baptiste is the latter's girlfriend - this was the year after Secrets and Lies and from now she appears to be established in the USA.
Lots of narration, lots of New York, lots of irony, things which may or may not be true, people saying 'She said this great thing the other day... can't remember what it was now...' - you kind of know how it's going to turn out...
Steven Bernstein shot it. Bridget Fonda's in it briefly.
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