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...movie’s strongest moment occurs when Murphy and Styron exact revenge upon Nick, a man Murphy claims previously raped her friend. Styron’s relatively friendless life in her quest to become CEO is a motif that has been used before, but is artfully 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...
...Business of Strangers, starring Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles and a bottle of scotch, Paula 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 begins with Styron, a workaholic who doesn’t let hot flashes stop her from landing a client en route to a presentation. Under the impression that she is about to be fired, she takes her anger out on Murphy, the new audio/visual assistant who was late for her presentation. However, when Styron is promoted instead of being sacked, Styron apologizes to Murphy when they are stranded at the same airport hotel, and takes her happiness out on the girl instead. The rest of the movie follows the character development between the two women as they spar, flirt...
Channing’s Styron has spent her entire life subduing her femininity in order to climb the corporate ladder, sacrificing a marriage and the chance for a family to a hectic work schedule and briefcase full of Valium and Zoloft. Stiles’ Murphy, in contrast, exploits being female, teasing men in elevators, coming on to Styron and punishing men. The dynamic and growing relationship between the two causes Styron to question her life choices, but also causes Murphy to escalate her exploitations. The characters serve the story nicely, but Murphy is too extreme; audience members might find themselves...
Channing, Stiles and Fred Weller as Nick, a headhunter who Styron calls when she fears needing a new job, all enhance the movie with their acting. Channing draws the viewer in with a vivid performance that covers all emotions and states of mind and showcases her talent much more effectively than did her other recent movies, Where the Heart Is and Practical Magic. Stiles looks a little too young to play a college graduate (perhaps her repertoire of high-school roles plays a factor here) but manages to be both acerbic and provocative at the same time...