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...Richard Ruccolo (“Two Guys and a Girl”) plays Tom, a special ed teacher who is a recovering alcoholic and dislikes any threat of commitment. While Tom grew up making martinis for his alcoholic parents, his love interest, Eli, played by the film??s author, Dan Bucatinsky (The Opposite of Sex, Bounce), has to deal with a set of overemotional, intrusive parents who made him play with dolls as a child. The two are set up by mutual friends Brett and Jackie who fall in love while...
...days. Its recent campaign, in which the music channel likens itself to a sexually transmitted disease (“I feel itchy. Do I have MTV?”), is weird, not funny. Its shameless self-promotion in the recent Josie and the Pussycats was seen, based on the film??s box office, by somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 people. And the press release for “Undergrads,” MTV’s most recent cartoon program, highlights the show’s major flaw. It’s not funny...
...once addicted and allergic to the game he has mastered. Though his characters is so out of touch with the reality outside of the chessboard that he cannot even hold up a casual conversation, he nonetheless portrays a charming helplessness that neither the audience nor the film??s female protagonist can help responding...
...other, each adding another layer of depth. The film, for example, raises a subtle contrast between Luzhin’s brilliant capacity for strategy and his crippling psychological illnesses. This contrast plays out along the constant parallel between Luzhin’s life and chess games and richens the film??s ending...
...parallels between Luzhin’s life and his talent are physicalized in stunning landscapes that give the film??s Russian, Italian and American settings the feel of ornate life-size chessboards. There is, in fact, literally an ornate life-size chessboard right in front of the site of the chess tournament. Most of these landscapes, however, are much subtler—black and white tiled floors across which men and women walk deliberate patterns, rows of pillars arranged like pawns and carefully arrayed statues of kings, queens and their retinues of minions...