The multiple narrative possibilities of the choose-your-own-adventure story is probably not what anyone had in mind for this romantic comedy, which extracts its key components from David Mamet’s play Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the subsequent film version, 1986’s About Last Night, starring Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins. But it’s all here.
On the romantic comedy front, this update keeps it mostly tight. The characters, four single friends in Los Angeles falling in and out of bed and love with each other, are approximately realistic adults who spend their time yakking a blue streak to their best friends -- yet not necessarily to their romantic partners -- and hammering out more complex approaches to relationships than most simple-minded films in this genre ever allow. If it fails to fly at all times it’s because it runs into the same stumbling block seen in movie after movie featuring people in love
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