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...obviously does. She's been trying to get an adaptation of Stephen McCauley's novel The Object of My Affection off the ground for something like a decade. It offers a gay guy named George (Paul Rudd) getting jilted, taking a room with a straight woman named Nina (Jennifer Aniston) and having them fall into, yes, affection. On her part, though, that develops into something a little more intense, especially when she contrasts his sweetness to the abrasiveness of her straight lover, Vince (John Pankow). Those feelings grow when she discovers that she's pregnant and that George...
Rudd, best known for his suave Alicia-charming role in Clueless, doesn't have a particularly difficult role. He is labeled the martyr from the outset, the "object of affection" that Aniston will sweat, cry and bleed over from beginning to end. Though he successfully avoids stereotypes, even Rudd seems sometimes uncomfortable with the dangerously unpredictable script. His character ultimately lacks coherence...
...Object of My Affection certainly has its moments. Whenever Alda and Janey appear to give Aniston advice, the movie leaps into Woody Allen conversational mode, producing jewels of unbelievable hilarity...
Though her character on "Friends" and her role in Picture Perfect have made Jennifer Aniston a symbol of exasperating whininess, she delivers an impressively nuanced performance as Nina. For once, she refrains from flustered annoyance and genuinely portrays a sympathetic character who must balance pragmatism with her own sexual frustrations...
From the outset, Nina knows she's going to lose the battle to win George's love. Aniston makes us understand why she keeps fighting the self-defeating...