evyw64 I found this movie fascinating. I just happened upon it while flipping through the channels and soon became glued to it. I've watched it twice and have been looking for it to purchase. I loved the character study of the main characters: Max, a guy with loose morals and a questionable conscience; Kira, a girl looking for something more in her life--both romantically as well as professionally; Sarah, Max's loving girlfriend who works at helping heroin-addicted schizophrenics; and assorted pseudo-intellectual friends that attempt to understand and/or support their friends. Max dislikes his job working for a senator and questions his conscience for continuing to do so. He's in a three-year-long relationship with Sarah, a decent, respectable person that apparently loves Max despite his failings. Max seems kind of lost, like he's looking for something in his life, but he doesn't know what. He's just kind of going through the motions in life. Then Max meets Kira, a girl that has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, and the two hook up. Kira's trying to get a copy editing job, a position for which she is apparently overqualified. She left her job of five years after experiencing frustration at being mistaken for the only other black girl in the office. She seems aimless, restless, searching for something that's missing in her life. She even toys with the idea of moving to Italy for a year. Kira hooks up with a couple more guys, none of whom she's at all interested in.Max and Kira have mutual friends and keep ending up on group dates. Kira learns that Max has a girlfriend when they meet again at a bar where an unsuspecting Sarah buys Kira a drink. Max seems more interested in pursuing either another dalliance or some sort of relationship with Kira than Kira is in hooking up with Max again. They're both looking for something missing in their lives, but unsure of what it is they want. SPOILER ALERT: This has one of the saddest endings I've ever seen. Sarah finds a used condom wrapper in Max's bathroom while hunting for bandages to fix up Max's bike injury. She is obviously extremely hurt and you think she's going to break up with the unsuspecting Max, but she doesn't. She just wipes away her tears and goes in the kitchen to bandage Max's wound. Not revealing her true feelings, she starts discussing the tickets they must purchase to fly to Ohio in two weeks. Sarah reminisces about some event they'd shared with Max's family in the past. She remarks that he was undiplomatic towards his mother and this tells you a lot about what kind of a guy Max is as well as how Sarah feels about him. You know Sarah loves Max unconditionally, the way a mother loves a child. She's going to love him and care for him regardless of his somewhat emotional detachment toward her.

Anyanwu This movie seems like it was made by film students whose lives are like this and they got a kick out of putting it on film. The actors/characters just seemed like people they liked, thought were cool, and wanted to put them in a movie. The photography was competent enough but the direction and editing left it in the realm of many independent films that have a lot of non essential scenes that do not push the story forward. There were enough scenes of devoid of both verbal and non-verbal acting. An attempt to carry a "moral' character that was to straighten the hero out and get him to get his s**t together but that never really seemed to take hold. The antihero protagonist character was just annoying but I can see how the filmmakers who like that kind of character feel great about seeing him in a movie. He's cool to them. But just not to most people.

jfv_1 This is a delightful and all-too-real portrayal of several 20-somethings stumbling through their lives and doing the best they can, but not really getting anywhere and not understanding why. Wiley Wiggins does a great job as Max whose life is as aimless as his work.It combines the Hollywood buddy and relationship movies without being either exactly, but rather becomes more of a comment on how something isn't quite there.It's very well directed, acted and beautifully written with an absolutely perfect ending. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even with all of my cringing. Yes, I will see it again.

Peter L. Petersen (KnatLouie) I'm not quite sure what to make of this film, as I kinda liked it, but also felt it was sort of a waste of time to watch.The story is about a group of post-teens, who doesn't really seem to know what they want with their lives, and go around living just for the sake of living. The protagonist is Max, played by perhaps the only well-known actor in the film at this point, Wiley Wiggins (from "Waking Life" and "Dazed and Confused"-fame). Max unambitiously works as a sort of telephone operator, not really putting much thought nor effort into his job, and frequently comes in late, as a result of him not having a car, and refusing to use public transportation. He has just had a one-night stand with Kira (Kenya Miles), who had just broken up with her boyfriend, and Max can't seem to stop thinking about her, even though he is already in a steady relationship with his long-term girlfriend Sara. Max doesn't seem to be regretting his affair, but at the same time doesn't want to break up with his girlfriend either, so he is going through some emotional issues (or rather, lack thereof) throughout the film, and we follow him around, essentially doing nothing, and then doing more of nothing later. We also follow some of the other characters around, also doing basically nothing too.Even though most of the characters are very shallow, they still belong to this interesting group of goal-less youths, which probably take up more and more of the modern western society today, and because many of us (including myself) belong to this group, the film becomes strangely relevant, despite apparently not really having a goal of its own.So, overall I rate this a 6/10, purely because of the likability-effect that these post-teens have, and because I can identify with many of the issues they face during their everyday lives. But it is probably not a movie I'd consider viewing multiple times, as it doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, with a character-development of basically zero.