******SPOLIERS****** In a motel room in Lansing Michigan three old high school friends meet together for the first time in ten years and open up old wounds and start new ones in this strange but interesting movie.
Vince, Eathen Hawke, tries to get together in his motel room with an old flame from high school Amy, Uma Thurman, and his best friend Jon, Robert Sean Leonard, in a jealous attempt to embarrass them and make them feel guilty for 1. His girlfriend Amy cheating on him. 2. The person that she cheating with was Vince's best friend Jon ten years ago.
Vince a petty drug pusher and user who has a job as a volunteer firefighter using the job as cover for his drug dealing in the firehouse. Jon a struggling film-maker who has a movie that's going to be displayed at the local Lancing Film Festival. Amy is an Assistant DA in the Lansing Justice department.
Long winded movie that tries to make a point but the point seems to be that when you get three different people who are eye witnesses to an accident you get three different versions of what the accident was. Vince is so annoying and obnoxious with his jealous obsession about his former girlfriend having an affair with his best friend that his nagging and prodding both of them makes them see just want Vince wants them to see or at least in Amy's case she makes it seem that way; that it wasn't love but rape on the part of Jon in his relations with Amy back then.
Vince's constant nagging even got Jon to believe his viewpoint and after Jon admitted it Vince, to Jon surprise, produced a audio tape of his confession. Amy at first reacted to her affair with Jon in a sweet and loving way by saying that she loved Jon at that time and her affair with him was totally free and consensual on her part. But with Jon's neurotic actions about what happened due to Vince's manipulation of him Amy's opinion completely changed. She suddenly and inexpediently started to act like Vince wanted her to toward Jon's actions, that he raped her.
In the end of the movie it was Vince who got shafted big time by Amy who seemed to have caught on to what his plan was with her and Jon. Vince in a panic ended up holding or better yet flushing down the drain his bag of tricks. Good acting with great dialog made the film holds your attention from start to finish.
Vince, Eathen Hawke, tries to get together in his motel room with an old flame from high school Amy, Uma Thurman, and his best friend Jon, Robert Sean Leonard, in a jealous attempt to embarrass them and make them feel guilty for 1. His girlfriend Amy cheating on him. 2. The person that she cheating with was Vince's best friend Jon ten years ago.
Vince a petty drug pusher and user who has a job as a volunteer firefighter using the job as cover for his drug dealing in the firehouse. Jon a struggling film-maker who has a movie that's going to be displayed at the local Lancing Film Festival. Amy is an Assistant DA in the Lansing Justice department.
Long winded movie that tries to make a point but the point seems to be that when you get three different people who are eye witnesses to an accident you get three different versions of what the accident was. Vince is so annoying and obnoxious with his jealous obsession about his former girlfriend having an affair with his best friend that his nagging and prodding both of them makes them see just want Vince wants them to see or at least in Amy's case she makes it seem that way; that it wasn't love but rape on the part of Jon in his relations with Amy back then.
Vince's constant nagging even got Jon to believe his viewpoint and after Jon admitted it Vince, to Jon surprise, produced a audio tape of his confession. Amy at first reacted to her affair with Jon in a sweet and loving way by saying that she loved Jon at that time and her affair with him was totally free and consensual on her part. But with Jon's neurotic actions about what happened due to Vince's manipulation of him Amy's opinion completely changed. She suddenly and inexpediently started to act like Vince wanted her to toward Jon's actions, that he raped her.
In the end of the movie it was Vince who got shafted big time by Amy who seemed to have caught on to what his plan was with her and Jon. Vince in a panic ended up holding or better yet flushing down the drain his bag of tricks. Good acting with great dialog made the film holds your attention from start to finish.