(Rated PG-13,105 mins)
No, it doesn’t mean you mistakenly hit the lotto or that your wife threw her birth control pills out the window. Instead, writer, director editor Bard Anderson’s follow-up to the smash hit “Next Stop Wonderland” takes a new spin on dating. Anderson’s seemed to find his niche in relationship movies that work simply because they’re real. It’s a combo of love story and sci-fi and that question “just how much will a woman tolerate of her lover?” The premise can not be revealed because it will ruin the surprises that should be discovered along with Marisa Tomei who stars as Ruby, a codependent phobic cutie who meets the man of her dreams (or so she thinks) in Sam (Vincent D’Onofrio) this story goes beyond losers, lovers, paranoia, kings on white horses, or anything you could discover about your man. If you think having issues with gambling, cheating, or drinking are problems, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Instead this guy has an original twist on why Ruby has to leave him. But, like Tomei’s character of Ruby, you will be determined to see it through to the end to see if what Sam claims is real or a case of needing a visit to the nearest psycho ward. One has to wonder where Anderson developed this clueless genius of a character in Sam.
