Seeing Other People

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Seeing Me.......2007-01-19

Ok, first off I have seen the movie on tv, and do not have the dvd yet. But I still feel obligated to comment. I love Joy Mohr, Lauren Graham, and Jonathan Davis. I admit J.D. has a very short part, but nonetheless, it was nice to see him in an actual movie.

I admit there is nudity, language, drugs, sex, and cheating. But you have to remember that this is only a film. No one in the movie is telling you to emulate what the actor's are doing. If you like any of the three actor's I mentioned, you'll probably like this. If you like humor, sarcasm, and bad predicaments that you would never want to be in, but find funny when they happen to others, you will love this movie. I agree that this is not a romantic comedy. But it is d*mn funny.
~Lil' Black Panther~

It's a good movie, but I didn't like it.......2005-08-04

I have to give Seeing Other People four stars because it's a witty, well-made movie - but that doesn't mean I enjoyed it. I was, in fact, rather repulsed by the whole thing. I don't know why I watch movies like this. Seeing Other People leaves me wondering if there's a single sweet and innocent girl over the age of 12 left in this world. Are some people actually like the people in this movie? It's a depressing proposition, to say the least. Some people just don't deserve to be happy - exhibit A is almost the entire cast of this film. I didn't even like Jay Mohr to begin with; if they ever remake Three's Company (and, seeing what's going on in Hollywood these days, it's inevitable that they will), Jay Mohr is Larry - it's as simple as that.

I don't know much about women, but I do know that no woman in her right mind is going to insist that she and her fiancé see other people before the wedding. Alice (Julianne Nicholson) thinks she needs more experience before getting married; determined to make a total slut out of what has supposedly been a good girl, she badgers her live-in fiancé Ed (Jay Mohr) into agreeing that they both start sleeping around. Since they won't be lying about it, their relationship will only get stronger, she says. Uh, no. Not gonna happen. From this early point, the movie descends into a really bad episode of Melrose Place. Alice falls into a relationship with the world's neediest contractor, while Ed eventually starts lapping the field with an assortment of young women. Then Alice's cold and intimidating sister Claire (Lauren Graham) starts cheating on her annoying English husband, he makes a pretty disgusting move elsewhere, etc. The whole thing blows up in everyone's face - except for Ed's friend Carl (Andy Richter), who finds love (with a crazy woman) in a subplot that has little to do with the rest of the film.

There's nudity, although less than you might expect (I can only pray that I never have to see Jay Mohr's backside again), there's plenty of foul language, and the whole thing is basically a disgusting display of perversion gone unchecked. But, taken for what it is, the movie is quite successful - it's certainly much more intelligent than it could have been, the cast members perform their roles quite well, and there seems to be a point behind it all. This is a sex comedy, though, not a romantic comedy - I for one certainly didn't see anything romantic in it at all.

Cutting Edge Comedy Collection (Amy's O/Seeing Other People/Melvin Goes to Dinner/Scotland, PA.)

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Cutting Edge Comedy Collection (Amy's O/Seeing Other People/Melvin Goes to Dinner/Scotland, PA.)
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Melvin Goes to Dinner: With three almost complete strangers. Their conversation is always heartfelt and frequently funny as the four some talk about dating, sex religion, fetishes, ghost and everything in between.

Amy's O: Startlingly candid and hilarious, this romantic comedy about love, neuroses, and the "big O" offers a wry look at sex and the single girl- with a twist of sweetness and warmth.

Scotland, PA: A black comedy that transports Shakespeare's Macbeth to a fast-food restaurant in early 70's rural Pennsylvania.

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A sweet and sly comedy, Seeing Other People centers around Ed (Jay Mohr, Jerry Maguire) and Alice (Julianne Nicholson, Ally McBeal), who have an idyllic relationship--so stable that, only a few months before their wedding, Alice worries that she's missed out; she's only slept with two other men before Ed. Anxious about her lack of experience, she proposes that they start seeing other people so she can have cheap, meaningless sex. But after a promising start that revitalizes their relationship, this arrangement starts spinning off in dangerous directions. Attention to psychological detail--as well as a great cast, a well-written script, and smooth, underplayed direction--keep Seeing Other People from slipping into the usual clichés of broad sex comedies. The result is clever, genuine, and enjoyable. Also featuring Andy Richter (New York Minute), Lauren Graham (The Gilmore Girls), Josh Charles (S.W.A.T.), and Helen Slater (Supergirl). --Bret Fetzer

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Seeing Other Movies.......2006-09-28

Ugh. An unfunny waste of an hour and a half. Even the DVD Menu Screen is painfully annnoying. This film boasts 2 awards on its cover, one for Best Film at the Vail Film Festival and one for Best Actress in the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. It is so bad that henceforth, mention of either of those two festivals will be a Black Flag when I'm deciding what not to watch. Before the third act even started, I emailed the good people at the Vail Film Festival to find out what other films were there in 2004, when this won, because I'm a masochist and I'm utterly fascinated to find out-- and yes, ultimately watch-- the kind of trash this movie could have possibly beaten. They have yet to reply. I can only hope that if Andy Richter knew this was the kind of work he'd be doing, he would have shackled himself to Conan's desk "Saw"-style. I had a running debate with myself whether Bryan Cranston's character's obnoxious foreign accent was in the script or if he added it in a futile attempt to spice things up. Said debate was far more entertaining than the film. Highlights for me were two moments of sheer confusion and panic which required me to look up the cast credits online to reassure myself of my own sanity: "Dear God, is that Supergirl?" and "Dear God, is that the lead singer of Korn?" Other than that, the best feeling this movie gave me was relief, when the end credits started to roll less than 90 minutes after the opening credits. Not only do I wish I could assign a score of zero stars, I wish a mechanism existed which would allow me to take away the stars given to this film by other reviewers and dispense those stars equally among Gigli, Empire Records, Catwoman, and Tom Green's filmography in its entirety.

Great little cautionary tale ..........2005-10-07

... about how important it is to really have a look at what you have on the home front before you go slumming for love and selling out for something other than "vanilla". Bottom line -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and sometimes rocky road is just that -- rocky.

This movie explains perfectly well the delicious contentment of having somebody to stay at home with and watch movies while doing laundry on Saturday nights. A rut or a cozy routine? Yep, there's a difference, and these characters find out the hard way. Practically everybody shoots themself in the foot, and a happy ending isn't guaranteed ... or maybe even deserved ... but it's still possible. That's the hopeful spirit chugging along behind this neo-cynical, sometimes potty-mouthed (it is!) indie film. Not for those afraid of seeing skin (don't say you weren't warned).

Jay Mohr was a great "everyman" leading male. Why didn't he get more roles? He is funny too -- any leading male nowadays really has to be, when you get right down to it, to be bankable (with the glaring exception of the humorless, increasily scarily-cyborgish Tom Cruise) -- but he was more than a one trick pony. Jay Mohr, come back! Come out to play! We miss you!

Lauren Graham's delivery of a crass, money-obsessed, shrewish character is a refreshing change from her "Lorelei Gilmore" persona, and though I'd prefer that any day of the week it's nice to see her play against type.

Not a movie I'd necessarily buy -- I saw it for free on cable -- (wait, does that count as free?!), but worth a watch if a) you like modern sex comedies with a smart flair, and/or b) you need a little refresher course in Reasons To Stay With The One You Love And Who Loves You, You Idiot 101.

Cosi Fan Tutti..........2005-05-28

"Seeing Other People" is a hilarious cautionary fable about what happens when we take important stuff for granted, like love and commitment. Wally Wolodarsky, the co-writer and director, used to write for "The Simpsons" and we get that same smart, sweet-and-sour satirical style here. Relatively innocent Julianne Nicholson comes to feel that she doesn't have enough "experience" before her upcoming marriage to nice but snarky sitcom-writer Jay Mohr, so she says they should have meaningless sex with other people before the vows are taken. She's sure they are "mature" enough to handle it. This magnificently dumb plan is followed by increasingly catastrophic consequences that include crack-smoking Harvard graduates, emotionally needy polygamists, a foul Englishman and his nasty wife, lots and lots of cats, and the worst three-way ever depicted on film. The old saws about "the grass is always greener" and "be careful what you wish for" have seldom been more memorably depicted. The exceptional cast includes Conan's Andy Richter as Mohr's good-guy friend; Josh Charles as his misogynist other friend; "Gilmore Girls" Lauren Graham as Nicholson's horrible, horrible sister; Helen Slater as an emotionally nuked divorcee; Liz Phair in a cameo as a yoga instructor; and last but not least, Bryan Cranston, delving depths of indignity unknown even as the dad on "Malcolm in the Middle", as Graham's bad-breathed, leering English husband. The film turns out to be generous, good-natured, and forgiving but there's some wonderfully funny bad behavior on the way.

What happens when someone has gone to far?.......2005-05-27

Seeing other people was a great comedy that I enjoyed watching and that I highly recomend. The film is about two couples who are engaged and seem to be happy with each other but there seems to be a problem, during there engagment party Alice goes into her sister's room only to find out that one of her friends sneacking out to have sex with a complete stranger she endes up watching the whole thing in the closet. Soon she realises that she has not had a good sex life in the past and has asked her fiance (Jay Mohr) if they should see other people before they get married, at first he thinks that it might be a joke but things get serious when Alice meets a guy at her work, soon Jay Mohr's character gets fustrated because he is in love with her and never realised that she would do such a thing, but then he gets to have sex with other numerous women only to find out that the situation has become completly out of control, some of thier friends think that its a bad idea while one of Jay's character's friends thinks its a brilliant opritunaty. The story was pretty good and the idea was interesting as well as the cast of character's some of whom were really hillarious like Andy Richter and Lauren Graham as Alice's obnoxious sister. Overall the film deals with relationships, sex and dating in a very funny way and I suggest that you check it out if your looking for a great laugh.

Don't know what you got til it's gone.......2005-03-17

It's a story of a girl who feels she's getting locked into marriage before she's gotten her kicks out and experienced the world - so they agree to see other people before getting married, and obviously, it doesn't work out, and everyone involved has to deal with how they've messed up a good thing(s). It's sadly believable, and a overall a feel-good movie. Both leads do a fantastic job portraying their parts.

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Seeing Other People

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Ed and Alice live together and will soon marry. She decides she'd like more sexual experiences before settling down with the man she loves, so she convinces Ed they should "see other people" (as in, sex with strangers), even as they continue to live together and plan the wedding. They discuss it. Each knows someone who thinks this idea is cool; each has a friend who thinks they're nuts. Things start reasonably well, but soon their relationship goes awry. Can the genie get back in the bottle and Ed and Alice return to companionship - or does seeing other people put an end to how Alice and Ed used to be?

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