Man About Town (2006)

Director:

Mike Binder

Writer (WGA):

Mike Binder (written by)

Release Date:

8 June 2006 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Welcome to the deep end of a very shallow town.

Plot:

A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down. |

Plot Keywords:

Reference To IMDb | Talent Agent | Baseball Bat | Class | Adultery

Cast

Ben Affleck	...	Jack Giamoro
Rebecca Romijn	...	Nina Giamoro
John Cleese	...	Dr. Primkin
Samuel Ball	...	Jimmy Dooley
Mike Binder	...	Morty
Erica Cerra	...	Sela
Gina Gershon	...	Arlene Kreiner
Adam Goldberg	...	Phil Balow
Howard Hesseman	...	Ben Giamoro
Bai Ling	...	Barbi Ling
Jerry O'Connell	...	David Lilly
Kal Penn	...	Alan Fineberg
Amber Valletta	...	Brynn Lilly
Damien Wayans	...	Lucky Reynolds (as Damien Dante Wayans)
Laura Soltis	...	Barbara Giamoro

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some sexual content and a scene of violence.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Singapore:M18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-13 | Netherlands:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Media 8 Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: In the part where Brynn Lilly is pretending to be Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992), she is holding a cigarette. Each time the camera changes angles, the cigarette is long, then short, then long, several times.

Quotes:

Nina Giamoro: I just wish I could make you understand how small and how sad it all was. So you'd know how little it all meant.

Movie Connections:

References Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Soundtrack:

Red States

Flatter than flat

A guys life is in trouble. He finds out his wife is cheating on him, and the journal he is writing as a result of a class of self discovery he is following gets stolen and used against him. How has his life come to that point and where will it go from here? If such interests you, go see this film.

Otherwise, avoid it all costs. It is bland, told solely from the side of the "victim" that does his best to sound like an absolute drama queen, failing miserably at that. He's having a bad time. Big deal, deal with it. Just like everyone else.

A couple short attempts at humor get made but none of them take the film into more than a small smirk or a light chuckle. A sense of drama is added but none of it is bad enough to make one bond with the lead character.

So in short. This film is as flat as the country I live in and not worth the celluloid it was filmed on.

2 out of 10 very boring drama queens