TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Predrag The film stars sexy Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey, both married and recently becoming next door neighbors. Kevin Kine is supposedly in a happy relationship with his wife (played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, but all hell breaks loose when Kevin Spacey's character sets his new friend up for the murder of his wife so he can collect on a heft insurance policy. Does the criminal justice system in America really let a man who is about to stand trial for a brutal murder out on bail? Do they then let him wander, unsupervised, wherever he pleases? This movie started out great the way it established the growing friendship between two very different couples and then moved into a murder mystery. The acting was first-rate (with the exception of Rebecca Miller can we say boring?) but then the plot defied logic. Further, it is completely unrealistic that a shattered Kevin Kline's wife would have so immediately taken up with Kevin Spacey. By the time the film ended, it felt like a comedy, it was so ridiculous! Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

jotix100 Richard and Priscilla Parker are a happily married couple. He works writing jingles for different products, as we meet him. Priscilla, who is also seen while he works at a recording studio, appears to be the one that handles the financial aspect. They have a teen aged daughter who is attending a boarding school. Their home is set in a well to do division in the suburb of Atlanta. They seem to have it all.Little do they know their life is about to change drastically when their new neighbors buy the house next to them. Eddy and Kay Otis are an attractive couple about the same age as the Parkers, but with no children. Eddy shows all the signs of being a fast operator. Kay, on the other hand, is the quiet one. Eddy is a glib man that gives the impression of being a con man, if there were ever one. The new arrivals latch on to the Parkers, as they become friends.Richard and Priscilla's marriage has seen better days. He works at home late into the night. Richard cannot help but to notice the beautiful Kay next door preparing for bed, or getting out of the bathtub with nothing on. He begins acting like a peeping tom. Eddy pulls a fast one when he is hit by Richard's car. He offers the settlement check to his friends, who at first, are reluctant to do so. The Parkers begin having second thoughts about their neighbors.One day, out of the blue, Eddy has an interesting proposal for Richard. How about switching wives, but not in the obvious way. Eddy wants to be subtle about it. One night, Richard, who cannot resist spending some time in the sack with Kay, comes down during the night. He is to go to the Otises, where Kay will be sleeping, have sex with her, and just return back home. Eddy is expected to do the same with Priscilla. Wrong decision, indeed. When Kay is found dead, all suspicions fall on Richard, the last one to have sex with her. But was that so? Richard's life goes into a tail spin as he tries to prove his innocence, only to get a lot of complications along the way."Consenting Adults" came almost at the end of Mr. Pakula's life. He met a horrible death. As a film director, Mr. Pakula enjoyed a good career in Hollywood, and even if this film was flawed, he showed he was the man that got good performances from actors that worked for him. As written by Matthew Chapman, the film holds a good promise up until the Kay's horrible death. After that, the film does not make much sense the way it was written, which leaves a lot of questions in the viewer's mind. Best thing in the film is Kevin Spacey at his weirdest. He is the most interesting character that contrasts with the more reserved Kevin Kline, whose Richard shows a high libido gone wrong, while Spacey's Eddy is a cunning evil man that has an ulterior motive to capitalize on Kay's murder. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Rebecca Miller, who is also a good director, play second fiddles to their high profiled husbands.

brianmellow The only implausible part of the movie was when Kevin Kline's character chose to leave the character played by Rebecca Miller alone on the rooftop to answer the "fake call" by the character played by Forest Whitaker. Had I been in a similar circumstance, I cannot imagine I would leave her alone after finally finding her.But as far as the movie was concerned, I found it otherwise entirely plausible and believable. And even my implausible criticism mentioned in the first paragraph could very easily have happened given the emotional response that the protagonist may have experienced.This was well crafted and well acted. Anyone that has a problem with this movie's plausibility factor is being way too critical and ridiculous.

edwagreen The first part of the film really drags where a musical performer, Kevin Kline, leads an average life with wife and daughter. Along comes the new neighbors.Kevin Spacey is in fine form as the neighbor. At once, he shows himself to be an oddball. He becomes a little too friendly with Kline and Mary Elizabeth, and when they say they're not that rich, he fakes an accident so that they can get money. All this comes at a price, he wants to swap partners. I thought I was dealing with a picture about swinging but how wrong I was.The film really takes off when Spacey's wife is found dead and Kline, who had supposedly gone to bed with her, is the prime suspect in her murder.While the movie becomes a murder mystery, this exciting part could have been handled a lot better. It is soon determined that Spacey had a large insurance policy out on his wife, and more shockingly, the dead woman is not his wife, and furthermore, Spacey is now carrying on with Kline's wife. All this as you can imagine is a little too hard to take.The ending has that riveting feeling but you feel that you've gone way out of the way to get to this point.