Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sex and Breakfast

Does anyone remember the Home Alone series? Well Macaulay Culkin is back. Just in case you were not able to guess from the tile of the movie this is definitely not something you would want to take the whole family to see.
Basically the movie is about two couples; James(Macaulay) and Heather(Alexis Dziena), and Ellis(Kunno Becker) and Renee(Eliza Dushku). Both couples have run into problems in their relationships. At first it seems like all of the problems are just sexual but as the movie progresses you begin to see that there are other underlying problems as well. However, all these problems seem to stem from their troubled sex lives which they are unable to talk about. Eventually both couples decide to sign up for "group sex therapy" and this is how they end up meeting each other.
The main problem that James and Heather have with their relationship is that Heather is never able to climax when she has sex with James, but she has never had this problem with any of the other guys she has been intimate with. On the other hand Ellis and Renee feel as if their relationship is becoming dull and routine. I guess they are just afraid to take the next natural step.
Before the group sex, each of the couples talks about their past sexual encounters and what some of their fantasies are, thus adding more problems to their already troubled relationships. For instance Renee has always wanted to sleep with a woman, just to see what it would be like. She eventually meets this woman and they are about to sleep together but Ellis explodes and "ruins it" so the event never takes place. Each couple has moments like these as the movie progresses.
I won't ruin the ending but from what I gathered, in the end one of the relationships became stronger while the other seemed to have died entirely because of their experience. (After watching half of the movie it should be which couple the about statements are referring to)
If you happened to like Juno then I think you will like this, although it's not as good as Juno it does have its moments and overall is worth watching.

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