Seeing Other People (2004)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 20
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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7
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Directed by Wallace Wolodarsky, Seeing Other People features Jay Mohr and Julianne Nicholson as Ed and Alice, a soon-to-be married couple with one rather significant problem facing them: Alice doesn't think she's had enough sex to excuse settling down with one man for the rest of her life. Though reluctant, Ed agrees, at Alice's insistence, to have a premarital free-for-all of sorts; a period in which both Alice and Ed are allowed to explore sexual and emotional relationships with other people.
Cast
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Jay Mohr
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Julianne Nicholson
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Josh Charles
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Andy Richter
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Lauren Graham
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Bryan Cranston
Peter -
Niki J. Crawford
Venita -
Jonathan Davis
Ricky -
Matthew Davis
Donald -
Helen Slater
Penelope -
Jill Ritchie
Sandy -
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (20) | DVD (4)
There's a lost-and-found innocence in their characters which Ms. Nicholson and Mr. Mohr express beautifully.
Top Critic... sharp, sometimes nasty and truly funny ...
Premise sounds implausible, but Nicholson's thorough rendering of Alice as a willowy, intelligent and more than a bit self-deluded naif puts it over.
A premise that is equal parts silly and cynical is stretched over 90 uncomfortable minutes, hitting just about every relationship cliché imaginable with incongruous spurts of graphic sex talk spiking the mostly ho-hum dialogue.
It lacks the wit and depth to make it anything more than a mediocre tale of Hollywood malcontents.
This whiny, unpleasant comedy of infidelity makes a good case for staying celibate with the phone unplugged.
...possesses the feel and tone of a typical sitcom, albeit a sitcom with several distinctly R-rated quirks.
Silly sex farce involving self-absorbed people.
dwells on the realistic effects of a fairly ridiculous idea - one that is clearly better suited to farce
The great cast should work together again on a project that aspires to be more than just pleasent. Not a bad movie, just a little too obvious.
The snappy one-liners, stereotypical characters, and labored narrative contrivances are all here in this episodic romantic comedy -- all that's missing are commercial breaks.
It's a credit to that talent that this film, with it's completely implausible plot, never loses the audience, delving cleverly into male and female nature for some good belly laughs and, dare I say it, some thought-provoking insights as well.
A genial, harmless, uneventful little film that will have you smiling while you're also thinking about what to get for dinner after it ends.
It's not only sexy, clever and well-acted by a fine cast of mostly TV actors, but it's also a grown-up comedy about honest-to-God grown ups.
A hit-and-miss sex farce that, though recognizably independent and refreshingly raunchy, could've benefited from less sitcomy slickness.
Audience Reviews for Seeing Other People
"Seeing Other People" is a tired, unfunny, predictable comedy that supposedly comes down on the side of monogamy but is also strangely less than thrilled with marriage.(Ed and Alice are probably happy until they got engaged and there is not a happily married couple around for miles. All of which brought back unhappy memories of "The Last Married Couple"(1980) starring Natalie Wood and George Segal.) But Julianne Nicholson does have an awkward sort of charm; Jay Mohr deserves better; and Lauren Graham should do amusingly illegal things to her agent for getting her parts in garbage like this.
And could somebody please explain why Andy Richter was given his very own subplot?
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