Saw Chatham this weekend. I guess it's billed as a romantic comedy, shot on location in Chatham starring Mariel Hemingway, Christy Scott Cashman, Charles Durning, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, and David Carradine. A bunch of really good actors, and my God, do they do a horrible job. Sappy story, hackneyed plot reduced to the simplest of cliches about marriage and relationships and getting old, horrible acting on par with amateur actors in community theater. By turns each and every one of those top-notch actors are pretentious, shallow, and thoughtless. I was watching Muriel Hemingway at one point standing there just grinning and mugging, obviously without a clue about what her character is about or should be doing. What made it all the worse was we saw it at the cinema at the Dennis Playhouse, which was filled with all of these white-haired folks who obviously identified with the old worn-out actors/codgers on the screen.
Don't even rent it. It's not worth it.
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