Living Out Loud (1998)

Rating: * * * * 1/2 (Out of 5)

So obviously a film directed by a screenwriter. The conversations are so natural and realistic. It is a film about two very real people who enjoy the companionship of the other but at the same time sensible enough to realize that they couldn't possibily be together. A Hollywood romantic comedy would force them to be together at the end and live happily ever after, but luckily writer/director Richard LaGravense is more interested in his characters than silly endings.

Living Out Loud is such an excellent film that it pisses me off that so few people have seen it. It seems that if a movie is not mainstream, it has to be "edgy" or dark or violent to be recognized. An understated film like this one gets no attention at all.

My pick of the Netflix comment: "Queen Latifah should never make another movie, and Holly Hunter should stick with the erotica genre (aka - Crash). Devito was his best in My Cousin Vinny. This movie was horrible."

Marisa Tomei won an Oscar for My Cousin Vinny. And Joe Pesci - hair = Danny DeVito.