This film got to me. I found Campbell Scott's (son of the great George C and the even greater Colleen Dewhurst) performance highly nuanced and believable. Yes he was a bit of a bore, yes he was afraid to confront the wife, but how awfully realistic all of that is. The alter ego was a crock and totally contrived. The movie did not need such an unnecessary passenger and it completely spoiled it for me. It made me want to read the book, I'm sure it is much better. However, the kids were real, and the wife played by Hope Davis wonderful in her romantic yearnings. In movies like this it is all in the unsaid. The small touches. 6 out of 10 for all of that but thumbs so far down the pipe for that alter ego crud.
Review of The Secret Lives of Dentists
