Fri., Nov. 4, 2005 12:00 AM PST
Writer-director Craig Lucas all but kills his play
The Dying Gaul in this transfer to the silver screen. The plot of the movie is about...the plot of a movie. More specifically, it's about a screenplay
Peter Sarsgaard has written about his lover who died of AIDS. However, when seductive studio executive
Campbell Scott gets involved, Sarsgaard is pressured to change his lover to a woman on the page.
Throughout the film, many typically stagey pronouncements pop up; Sarsgaard and Scott start having sex, and Scott's wife (
Patricia Clarkson) actually pretends to be the ghost of Sarsgaard's dead boyfriend to get info. (No,
really.) Naturally, things get out of hand--as if they're not already?--and a quiet case of same-sex infidelity turns into a Greek tragedy. And under Lucas' numbing direction, it's just tragic.
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