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Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Starter Wife (2007)

When the wife (Debra Messing) of a successful studio executive (Peter Jacobson) gets dumped for a younger woman, she finds herself an outcast in the Beverly Hills/Malibu/Rodeo Drive lifestyle, doors once open to her are now closed and she must now reevaluate her choices. Pushing the six hour mark, its hard to feel too sorry for a woman whose biggest problem is that she's no longer on the A-list, no longer gets invited to premieres, parties and lunch with the other studio wives. The cliched script doesn't give much help. It gives her the standard alcoholic, bitchy wisecracking best friend (Judy Davis) as well as the standard bitchy wisecracking gay commitment-phobic best friend (Chris Diamantopoulos) as well as a black girlfriend (Anika Noni Rose) too and when she falls for a homeless drifter (Stephen Moyer), it's not the toothless, smelly homeless type but a hunky blonde with a gymrat body type. Oh, the poor dear! You can't possibly take any of it seriously and if you don't, it's enjoyable in a shallow way, as shallow as its characters. With Joe Mantegna, Miranda Otto and Novella Nelson. THE FIRST WIVES CLUB did this kind of thing much better and with more wit.

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