The Simian Line (2000)

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Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a dinner for some wildly dissimilar guests: her tenets Sandra (Cindy Crawford) and Paul (Jamey Sheridan) are conservative professionals, while fellow building dwellers Marta (Monica Keena) and Billy (Dylan Bruno) are rock musicians. Also at the party is wacky psychic Arnita (Tyne Daly). During dinner, Arnita sees the spirits of another couple: Mae (Samantha Mathis), a flapper from the 1920s, and Katharine's great-grandfather Edward (William Hurt). Unnerved, Arnita predicts that one couple will split up by year's end. Though initially shaken, the guests brush her off as a nut. Yet toward the year's end, Katharine grows increasingly jealousy of Rick's flirtation with Sandra.
  • Rating:
    R (language and some sexuality)
  • Genre:
    Comedy, Drama
  • Directed By:
    Linda Yellen
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  • Studio:
    Gabriel Film Group

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Cast

Lynn Redgrave
as Katharine
Jamey Sheridan
as Paul
Cindy Crawford
as Sandra
Samantha Mathis
as Mae
Dylan Bruno
as Billy
Monica Keena
as Marta
Harry Connick Jr.
as Rick
Tyne Daly
as Arnita
William Hurt
as Edward
Eric Stoltz
as Sam
Jeremy Zelig
as Jimmy
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Critic Reviews for The Simian Line

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (8)

An uneven, at times absorbing portrait of four couples struggling to define their relationships.

Jul 6, 2010
Variety
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It's a banal little indie ensemble comedy.

Mar 22, 2002 | Rating: 2/5
Orlando Sentinel
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It's partly the characters and partly the performers who are responsible for generating more feelings in the afterlife than the film's Weehawken Six achieve in here and now.

Nov 29, 2001 | Full Review…
Observer
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The story, such as it is, is hackneyed mush of the most contrived and patronizing kind.

Nov 16, 2001
Newsday
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One of those exercises in romantic whimsy that misses its mark: It's alternately sappy and uncomfortably harsh.

Nov 16, 2001 | Rating: 2/4
New York Post
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Reveals [Yellen's] mastery of artifice and theatricality in the service of eliciting genuine emotion and insight into human nature.

Nov 16, 2001 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Los Angeles Times
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