Melt with you7/25/2023 ![]() ![]() McKay lives with the guilt of having killed his sister and her boyfriend … somehow … plus he's not 100% straight, which in this movie means he's obviously suicidal.Įxcept there's more to it than that. Piven is a family man wanted by the SEC for being both greedy and stupid. Lowe is a divorced doctor and possible rapist who deals pills to patients like a character out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel and can't get his own kid to call him "Daddy." Jane is a failed novelist (aside from one two-week stint on the New York Times best-seller list) who now teaches high school English and snorts cocaine as if Jane were still in "Boogie Nights" mode. I wasn't exactly expecting likable characters, but boy are these guys a piece of work. Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay ("Me & Orson Welles") star as four friends who spend a week in Big Sur reliving their high school glory days and reflecting on how those days have long since passed. And the worst part is that my name is in it - more or less - as one of the main characters references a "Jeff Schneider." Oy! Mark Pellington's "I Melt With You" may be the single biggest disappointment of the Sundance Film Festival.Īs a big fan of Pellington's earlier films such as "The Mothman Prophecies" and "Arlington Road," I probably had greater expectations than most, but regardless of my high hopes, "I Melt With You" is a cinematic calamity from its open frames. ![]()
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