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...drawn out in this movie. These two issues juxtaposed together provide influential insight into modern womanhood. However, this significance is muddled under lesbian innuendo that takes the viewer’s mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn to focus his message as well as he focuses his action, and continues to find such strong acting talent and to use film as a vehicle for illuminating society’s ills, we can expect the emergence of an significant Hollywood force. The Business of Strangers, like...
...Murphy (Stiles) tells Julie Styron (Channing) that many pornos are actually directed by women, not men—the only real difference is less sex and more foreplay. Business, on the other hand, is a female dominated film directed by a man. As written by first-time writer/director Patrick Stettner, the film’s characters are dynamically portrayed by Channing and Stiles. But while the issues Stettner tackles certainly deserve to be explored, Business is ultimately too strange to be highly effective...
...Business of Strangers is not a fun movie; a few clever lines are humorous but the subject matter is a serious one and the overall projection for being female in today’s world is negative. Stettner aims simply to point this out, in all its forms, not to provide a solution to the problem. Except for the extremity of the character of Murphy and some of her frequently unbelievable actions, the movie is faithful to reality and knows its bounds, which is one of its strengths and keeps it from trying to achieve too much...
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...stories of the two characters would provide an interesting expose of women’s roles in today’s society, but this study is unnecessarily complicated by the sexual tension between the two women. Stettner tackles a heavy subject in his debut and packages the topic nicely; the movie begins and ends in the airport, and consists mainly of one locale and three characters, focusing the film on the ideas behind the movie rather than on extraneous plotlines. However, in making the character interaction so complicated, this message is not sent out as clearly as the theme-focused...