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Frankie & Johnny are Married (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 14
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language including sexual references, and brief drug use
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:May 28, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: A romantic comedy about Michael Pressman, a successful film television director & producer and Lisa Chess, a talented struggling actress, who are married and decide to mount a production of Frankie... A romantic comedy about Michael Pressman, a successful film television director & producer and Lisa Chess, a talented struggling actress, who are married and decide to mount a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune in equity-waiver in Los Angeles with the hopes of bringing some life and joy back into their marriage. They bring in Alan Rosenberg to play Johnny and Lisa plays Frankie and Michael directs. What starts off as a simple idea to revitalize the marriage turns into an utter nightmare. Alan becomes insanely difficult and the marriage becomes even more strained as the rehearsal process becomes tense and explosive. It reaches a point where after a devastatingly disastrous preview, Michael shuts the play down and loses his whole investment, and possibly his marriage. His only choice is to take over the role of Johnny himself and fire Alan Rosenberg. Now the stakes are truly high as to whether or not this couple can pull it off. -- © Michael Pressman Productions [More]
Starring: Jillian Armenante, Kathy Baker, Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman
Starring: Jillian Armenante, Kathy Baker, Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman, Hector Elizondo, Nicole Gomez Fisher, Steven Glick
Director: Michael Pressman
Director: Michael Pressman
Studio: IFC Films
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Reviews for Frankie & Johnny are Married
Most entertaining is Alan Rosenberg's wicked spoof of actorly neuroses.
We get, basically, a love note from one to the other. But what we don't get is an absorbing movie.
A wonderfully entertaining, hilariously funny and sweetly touching story.
A chronicle of embarrassment that gratifyingly, if narrowly, avoids embarrassing itself.
The pleasant surprise is that it's often funny and unexpectedly engaging, in large part because Pressman knows better than to ask you to feel too sorry for the fictitious 'Pressman' and 'Chess.'
There's little that's particularly dramatic or funny for the outsider in this autobiographical vanity project.
A glorified home movie, redeemed by Alan Rosenberg's hilarious performance as an egomaniacal actor.
Successfully amalgamates Henry Jaglom's Hollywood- home-movie aesthetic, ego-skewering satire, and a measured understanding of the kinship between love and risk.
A sharply written, directed, and acted character piece brimming with good-natured laughter and real affection.
It's art imitating life imitating art -- or something like that. Whatever, it's not very good.
A blend of fact and fiction that audiences might find puzzling and at times a little self-indulgent, but sometimes very funny and occasionally quite touching.
Proves that playing together can bring zest to any sagging long-term love relationship.
light and playful, but it's also a hint of this couple's embrace of art and marriage.
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