Advantages: Brilliant soundtrack, and Pfeiffer's performance Disadvantages: Its a little low key, nothing much happens
...with his brother Jack, tours the LA bars playing his own brand of lounge music. But the act is becoming stale, and the ever cynical Jack has a huge chip on his shoulder. When the work starts to dry up, they have to do an overhaul. So they audition for a singer. In comes Susie Diamond, complete with her own attitude problem, a forty a day habit, and a voice that sends pulses racing. Susie's an ex escort looking for her own legitimate job, and wont ... ...become a threesome, the cracks in the brothers relationship starts to become ever more evident. They are forced to look at their relationship with an ongoing insightful analysis from Susie, who proves to more than just a pretty face with a pretty voice.
Real life brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges turn in brilliant performances as the brothers at each others throats, Jeff lending an honesty to his role that gives it more poignancy as the film goes on. ...
bilbob20 04.12.2006
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