By Chris Tookey
Last updated at 12:57 AM on 28th January 2011
Verdict: Fine acting can't redeem plodding tale
Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe for his performance in this rambling, literary film about an unprepossessing Canadian TV producer who improbably beds a succession of attractive ladies, culminating in his dream woman — so adorably played by the serenely beautiful Rosamund Pike that you want to yell at her not to throw away her life on such an egotistical creep.
Beyond saving: The film cannot be saved even with the fine acting of Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman
I can see that on the pages of Mordecai Richler’s original novel the thought processes of the central character might have made him appealing, but on screen he’s just a jerk.
The film has its incidental pleasures, and Dustin Hoffman turns in a lively performance as the anti-hero’s engagingly tactless father; but Richard J. Lewis’s direction never feels cinematic.
The project needed the gentler pacing of television to win us over to the central anti-hero, and make the supporting characters feel less like caricatures.
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