I wanted to like this movie. It was a small release with some great actors (Thomas Mann from Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls, Zozsia Mamet from Girls, Kal Pen from a number of good things, including the first Van Wilder movie, Olympia Dukakis, Andre Braugher and Phylicia Rashad). The metaphorical conceit of the movie was clever: six different sets of actors are used to tell the story of one marriage to show that these themes (love, loss, betrayal, etc.) are universal.
Unfortunately, this never got off the ground. The script was not great (despite being adapted from what the credits told me was an award winning author--same said author wrote and directed the movie), and the actors had no chemistry. I was surprised at the outset that I was the only one in the theater when the movie started; by the end, I was less surprised. There are better romantic dramas out there, with more clever narrative techniques and better directing.
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