This was okay, kinda interesting, I always like seeing Brittany Murphy and Stanley Tucci plays a good slim-bucket here. It's been shot documentary style, with a (relatively) low-budget so its grainy and jumpy at times, as a faux film crew follows and interviews six New Yorkers through the course of an average day.They share stories of their sexual experiences and the rocky road of relationships in their quest for true love. Nothing spectacular here to mention as the story doesn't really go anywhere. Some decent comedy/drama, all the men come off badly and by the end everyone is connected.I will say that all the characters are well developed, considering what this is, and I enjoyed the cast. Written and directed by Ed Burns, who apparently shot this in just 16 days, he plays a successful television producer who becomes infatuated with the recently divorced (Rosario Dawson). Her ex-husband wants her back but in the interim starts wooing (Brittany Murphy). She is (lovely) and having an affair with the ultra sleazy Stanley Tucci, who is married to Heather Graham. She plays a real estate agent with her eye on Edward Burns, which brings the circle to a close. 2/22/15

In the DVD commentary, Ed Burns says he wanted to make a movie that was "completely different." Who is he kidding? It's so close to Woody Allen that if it were released as a Woody Allen movie people would accept that Woody had made it. The mannerisms (e.g., people stammering and saying "you know" a lot, the jokes, the hand-held camera)... now don't get me wrong, it's done well, and beautifully filmed and acted ($1 million dollar budget, shot in 17 days? Hard to believe). I hope to see more of lovely Rosario Dawson - omigod, those lips! - and Brittany Murphy's star is rising as we speak. Stanley Tucci needs a toupe. He is an OK actor, nothing special, but I don't want to see this man's ugly bald head.

I think I might be one of the few here who actually has nothing negative to say about this "Husbands & Wives" rip-off. (Actually, that's my only quip -- too much like Allen's "Husbands & Wives." Nonetheless, "Husbands & Wives" is a very good film, so whatever.)The documentary approach worked on many levels; the acting was very good; the story wasn't bad, either -- so good that I held interest for the entire time.A very fine film, I must say. Burns is the new Allen! Rejoice!10/10

I tuned in towards the beginning, watched a few minutes and said "hey this is cool, it's like real life". That high didn't last all that long, despite the neat idea of showing overlapping romances. Here's some of the problems - 1) nobody in the movie is all that sympathetic; 2) the deliberately amateurish directorial style, which includes short video cuts in the middle of nearly every extended conversation(!?), is unique the first 2 or 3 times but gets really obnoxious; 3) the preoccupation with talking sex to the exclusion of nearly anything else also gets old pretty fast. Dawson and Murphy are both attractive and try hard, but this whole thing started to seem false and/or pointless pretty quick. I wanted to at least watch the whole thing through since I was writing this, but sorry I just couldn't make it; maybe it got better after I tuned out. 5 out of 10. As a post-script, I watched The Brothers McMullen (not knowing it was an Ed Burns movie) and the same damn thing happened - it seemed great at first and then it wore out real real quick on me. Maybe Ed Burns should make 15 minute slice-of-life relationship movies.