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After his miserable cop drama “We Own the Night,” co-writer/director James Gray grinds gears switching from his typical predilection for crime genre stories to make an imitation love story.
There isn’t an empathetic character to be had.
Manic depressive thirty-something Brooklynite Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix) still lives at home with his parents and works at his father’s dry cleaners.
Leonard falls for Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow in her first film role in two years), a romantically bemused girl dating a married man (Elias Koteas).
It doesn’t help that Leonard’s parents have set him up with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the daughter of Leonard’s dad’s business partner.
Sandra is to Leonard as he is to Michelle, thus creating a romantic stalemate akin to watching water go down a drain. After seeing this movie, it’s not such a surprise that Joaquin Phoenix chose to give up acting.
