Credited cast: | |||
Parker Posey | ... | Drew | |
John Carroll Lynch | ... | Conway | |
James Frain | ... | Miles Moss | |
Eric McCormack | ... | Colin | |
Pamela Reed | ... | Colin's Mother | |
John Aylward | ... | Drew's Father | |
Dana Millican | ... | Reese | |
Alycia Delmore | ... | Caitlin | |
Michael Panes | ... | Adjuster | |
Nicole Santora | ... | Doctor | |
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Macall Gordon | ... | Preschool Principal |
Rodney Sherwood | ... | Putnam Hatch | |
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Sheila Goold | ... | Magazine Writer |
Todd Courson | ... | Ivan | |
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Bradley Goodwill | ... | Elizabeth's brother-in-law |
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of a visionary modernist architect, whose soaring ideas are matched only by his ego. The woman is swept away by this uncompromising creative artist whose personality provides a stark contrast to her practical husband's. She is so taken she hardly notices the Architect is building HIS dream house.
'The Architect' never reaches the level of either drama or comedy as its sit-com story unfolds with the zest of a soggy blueprint. The plot relates how a pair of prosperous married suburbanites try to paper over their differences by commissioning a pretentious avant-garde architect to design their dream house. In the real world, a village idiot would require only a brief minute with this insufferable narcissist before dismissing him as a fraud. Worse yet, the credulous couple are never fleshed out to anything more substantial than cardboard cut-outs, and their dilemmas become increasingly far-fetched as the film proceeds.
It's tough to watch Parker Posey trudging through this humorless sludge when she's created so many idiosyncratic characters from unconventional material. At this point in her career, she seems better suited for the role of a scheming seductress, than that of an artsy airhead housewife in a lame comedy. The biggest mystery of 'The Architect' is how this sputtering slapstick-sophisticated hybrid vehicle ever got green-lighted.