I'm getting into the rhythms of these low budget Ed Burns films - not much happens, a few actors hanging out, easy going, big hearted. This is about a younger protagonist than usual for his movies - Matt Bush is turning 25, engaged to a hot girl (Anna Wood), has a job he loves but it doesn't pay well so he's going to work for his father in law's business. That's a metaphor apparently for Burns wanting to stay independent instead of going studio - a studio movie would probably be better written. But more hassle.
To sweeten the dream he runs into free spirit Kerry Bishe, who is slender and beautiful like Bush's fiancee. I guess that's Burns' type eg Maxine Bahn, Christy Turlington.
Burns appears as Bush's scallyway uncle. There's an erratic English actor in this one as there was in Purple Violets - I don't know why.
Amiable. Likeable. Bush has a high pitched voice. Not quite as good as the girls. His moral dilemma isn't much - poverty isn't really dramatised and Bishe is there and waiting to help him be true. Nice shots of the Hamptons.
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