A romantic comedy with an absurdist edge, Just a Kiss begins when Dag (Ron Eldard), a commercial director, sleeps with his best friend's girlfriend, Rebecca (Marley Shelton), a dancer, while she's touring in Europe. When their infidelity is revealed back home in New York City, it sets off a cascade of people falling into bed together, including Dag's girlfriend Halley (Kyra Sedgwick), Rebecca's other lover Andre (Taye Diggs), and a waitress at a bowling alley (Marisa Tomei) with strange obsessions and loose morals. Just a Kiss slips to and fro in time and veers in and out of rotoscope animation, but even the live sequences have a cartoonish edge; it's hard to care about what happens to these caricatures, no matter how tight their pants or how skimpy their tank tops. Also featuring Patrick Breen (who wrote the screenplay) and Sarita Choudhury. --Bret Fetzer
(15 votes)
2.
Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still rolling, are some of the most dramatic in the film simply because of the near total use of brightly colored, graffiti-like animation. After those first sequences, the animation is used only for emphasis on certain details, or to depict fantasies, and the film takes on a more traditional style. JUST A KISS follows a group of friends--couples Dag (Ron Eldard) and Hallie (Kyra Sedgewick), Pete (Patrick Breen) and Rebecca (Marley Shelton), Andre (Taye Diggs) and Colleen (Sarita Choudhury), and the one black sheep, Paula (Marisa Tomei); as they learn the hard way that a kiss is never just a kiss. The film's themes of constant, inevitable infidelity and constant, inevitable sex are played out so obviously that the result is hilarious, cruel, and poignant. In addition, the imagination behind some of the gags in the film is nothing short of brilliant. JUST A KISS is a must-see comedy that will keep audience members smirking long after the movie ends.
This film screened in May 2001 as part of the Gen Art Film Festival in New York City.
(15 votes)
3.
"A Wicked Delight" -Entertainment Weekly
It's not simple being a young, attractive, sexy, single professional living in Manhattan and looking for love. Take it from Halley (Kyra Sedgwick) a tenderhearted videographer; Paula (Marisa Tomei) an intense bowling alley waitress; Day (Ron Eldard) a brash TV commercial director; Andre (Taye Diggs) a soft-spoken cellist; Peter (Patrick Breen) a neurotic actor; and Rebecca (Marley Shelton) an emotionally fragile ballerina. All they wanted was the relationship of their dreams. All they got was a hilariously convoluted nightmare that began with...just a kiss. It's a twisted story of sex between six consenting adults that New York Magazine hails "A stylized comedy with magical flights of fancy!"
(15 votes)
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