Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Josephina
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Federico Vilar
The story makes no sense at all. They are the worst parents ever. They forget about their child in every scene. The mother goes out with her kid, and suddenly she returns alone. At the end, she puts her sleeping kid in a box with wheels and carries him in the middle of the night to see the kids father. It makes no sense, she carries her kid in a box.If a was a cop and I saw that, I would call child services. It makes absolutely no sense. Plus, it's boring, slow. Basically, nothing happens and then it ends.Please, do not waste your time.
francescogiacobbe
I was completely confused by this film. All I could make out was a wealthy, bored housewife sabotaging her own life in the most ridiculous way she could think of. This could be interpreted as attention seeking from an iPhone addicted husband or to escape the dissatisfaction of her monotonous, repetitive life, but really who knows.Directed by Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under; Transparent) and starring popular sitcom stars Kathryn Hahn (Parks and Recreation) and Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) it is no wonder that this film feels amateurish and far-fetched, as many American sitcoms are. The film centers around a housewife living in an affluent part of L.A., who befriends a young prostitute and eventually invites her to live with her family. A ridiculous pretense to begin with, reality is lost in the smog of LA and the marijuana smoke. The central theme of the film, early marriage boredom, is an intriguing one and could have made an excellent film highlighting the hurdles that modern marriages must overcome in the technological age. The casting is actually good, Kathryn Hahn plays the part of a borderline depressed housewife convincingly, but the script and the screenplay are overly complicated and abstract. This clumsy and disjointed film, drifts from one idea to the next without links, and much like a drug addled university student loses itself completely. By the end I found myself laughing at the scenarios which unfolded, from jokes about abortions to a group of seemingly close friends showing a complete lack of interest in one of them ruining his marriage in front of their eyes.
m-torres-61-319635
I'm gonna comment on the quality of the closed caption subtitles in this movie. It must be one of the worst I've ever seen in the couple of decades of watching movies on DVD. Only a fraction of the dialog is captioned, and the captions themselves last a second or less. Guys, this is not a speed-reading exercise but an application that's supposed to help hearing-impaired viewers watch your movie. You shouldn't have bothered.I'm also gonna comment on the inane, anal 10-line policy of IMDb for reviews. This is not a review but a comment on a deficiency in this movie that needs to be addressed and which may affect a sizable portion of viewers across the world. Even if it were a review - I've seen better eight-line reviews than those that are several times as long. What happened to the economy of expression as writing virtue, IMDb? Why are you encouraging artificial verbosity and limits instead of quality and creativity? Very strange!
Amari-Sali
Being that I liked Josh Radnor's HappyThankYouMorePlease and Liberal Arts I figured he had pretty good choices when it came to making movies. Add in Juno Temple, who may not have the best movies, but usually participates in weird films worth viewing once, and I felt sold. Thus leading me to watch Afternoon Delight.Characters & StoryRachel (Kathryn Hahn) is a very unhappy woman. Her relationship with her husband isn't working; Her life as a stay at home mom, dealing with the other stay at home moms' charity functions, is tedious; and all the while, her psychologist Lenore (Jane Lynch) keeps talking about how fabulous her life is while Rachel feels like she is drowning.Enter McKenna (Juno Temple), a stripper who is originally supposed to get Rachel and husband Jeff (Josh Radnor) hot and bothered enough to end their 6 months without sex. But, with Rachel getting sick, they continue to be in a rut. So, to distract Rachel from her misery, Rachel decides to play, what McKenna calls, "captain save a hoe." But all of this, seemingly, is made to distract Rachel from her various troubles which, by the end of the movie, come to a head.PraiseFor me, perhaps the most interesting part of the film is Temple playing a sex worker. Not because of the eroticism of it, but because she plays one which doesn't have much, if any, shame about what she does. Yes, she notes that sometimes she is the mistress, but at the same time it is noted that cheating is a two way street. But, even outside Temple's dialog and performance, I found it interesting how the perception of what a sex worker was worked into the plot by them noting how she looked like a college student, and yet was in the profession she was. I think it spoke a lot about the various misconceptions people have when it comes to people who honestly do sell sex for a living. And, outside of that, that's it for the praise.CriticismIn all honesty, both Hahn and Radnor in this movie were a bit boring. The reason I say this is because watching Hahn's character, Rachel, be neurotic wasn't the best entertainment, and though she had her moments in which the neuroticism was explained, I just felt that she never broke through that barrier from being a character to just a flawed human being. As for Radnor, be it lack of development, or just his performance, I just really didn't care about his character. In fact, I tried my best to imagine this as some weird HIMYM spin off where he marries the wrong woman just to try to make it interesting. It didn't work though.Overall: Skip ItThough interesting at first, this movie for me fails because really, McKenna brings the most interesting plot into the mix and I felt the script slowly started to realize McKenna would perhaps shadow Rachel, so then they threw in a bunch of issues for Rachel to talk about so she can compete. And overall, I think the film's story doesn't do much besides making me wanting to watch Pretty Woman. For despite Temple having an interesting character, and the whole "captain save a hoe" plot being interesting, with Rachel's issues, and Jeff's aloofness, the film may have a few bright spots, but overall is something I'd recommend to skip.
