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Sam (Matthe=$w ;Broderick) is the rea! son= a! ble man in a craz _y urban world@-, the m#a- n of th] )oughtf `ulness and$#@ refined tast\-e!// in a landscape of Leroy#[) Neiman pain*tings and be_er commercials. Th*^e-`# g .:+uy would sooner coo +k [for an hour over; a hot stove than say `su,!%\per],size i; t.) ' ^B,y d-;a/ y he's ^a store cler -k in a,: n u:p^] sc[/a (,$le gourmet (`]:eatery, //and :%(these scen! es ) raise a smile, esp`@ecially for ? ,?a==nyo @n`.e ?;who's) visited the actual ch? ain in New Yo rk@ City -- the po/rtrayal-@( is_.n't far o#ff from the reality. *=O ^u)r man = is besieged by], !+hoards[+ of ( custom,e^%rs ;who w`-]ant# the,i$/r $:, imported French ^ cheese cu` t to)!%\ impossi](+=b+ly @ e:x^ act standa_rds .$\^# H \;is e-;fforts =+to re main outward!ly polite (whil=!e you ` know he='=##d like to take th]!e cleaver to the relentle-=ss cli_ (@entel$@e ) are pretty funny, a nd will warm th;e % - h:earts of c?lerks every?^w here. ,;In general, Broderi#ck is in good f*orm (a) n!@d p=rovid`=es t he =%movie., with mos?t o@%^ f w?(!`hateve [r lightness _it po,[sse ]sse/= s. ; %+ Sciorra'+^s l+/ovelorn dent=^+al hygienist, Ellen , ! is, fi=/! ne enough, too, and her -?) u=#nknow ing in[, teraction with our cheese-slicing )^.hero$)@ :show, $s some hopeful chemi,*;(stry, an d you m--ay%^ begin _ to feel you @\!want t*.]+o se+e t ,=hese two get to!,gether. O_ne !] of %@ the main]^@[ competitors for our lady($['s affections, a stockbro$ `k_ # e[r (Kevin Anders@ o*n,* ), is played as c%-a,($ric=_atur$!e he' !:s the beer swi+lli/ ng #frat-boy-! wh*ose idea o$f@; aft .;*e`r?^:-s-[_ex se ,nsit#+ ivit%/y i s flipping on /?the footbal,l game\*. . He'^_ s kind of/. fun ny= at +\times, ^ (but ].@+th)+(e movie migh*=!t be s\tro[/nger if _\?he( w`as written/\ \ or ac? *$ted fo(r *]us to like him more*, instead ? o- !^f having u-`s merely r$e cogni#ze him )as ? [t, :he fla\t-out `wrong! =,' guy [in comparison to B`]roder-ick's sens,;.i_=; ti.ve man. Thin^,k of John C* . an![dy in^ ( S\ @. plash, .taking a ciga/=rett(e and beer can [!to the r+=^acqu`-e. tball game; ]+=we kno /*w his [^(li festy%le !#^is not# t \[he !one our%# hero should em#=u #late, but we can't+ he,lp but be ch=?armed ]+ by the like ^ a`\ ble goo? #n. Whereas this c[[#h$,aracter is merely a goon, a.nd pretty unlik- _able all arou#- #nd+. While i-%;t+ 's a ni@=[ce eno+= u( #gh ,light movie for t:he *(first,,( half, f,or me th ;e story was s om(%ewha(t derailed by its\_ unbelie]-$v?able ( Hollywood) presentation of sex and a$ dultery. (SPOILER A: H;EAD, skip t.@o next paragraph.) When El%)len returns h*-\ome\% a,fter an evening's mi `sadvent[!`#ures, she is $na tural%/ly fa .ce )]d with ^ -the q, uestio$ni)n*g husband (Michae \l M;( an _ t\ell). ( Qui[_[c#kly adm]?itting] her own=+$% indiscretion, : she then imme/%]_diately turns the situat#__ion arou; nd, d%(em) anding to kno w why, the gu y ha, d gone ahe. =ad and b*_+%ou\=]g#ht a hou. se without di \scussing it. Gran$ted, it'= - s a valid is sue, and granted, many ]_people us+=e *this -_countering maneuver in a r#^guments. W-hat's unbel/==ievabl)_e is what happen!` #s next the gu+*\y - ,;st/%arts re @(sponding ^to her question, , address=ing the -;+\hou_!se-issue =\ in*! a quie t, thou;:%ghtful manner. WHO -\]_A. You'd b e hard pressed to find a m+_a ]rried person#? in the%[_( world who, whe/n faced ) with hisher ` *p( art,ner's totally unexpec$ted a_dult+ ery, would b^e ready to a\;ddress any $thing so ca,*lmly. The guy would surely be* bouncing off the -wa[)lls,=; `or el#_ s^_\e crushed into silence` and te[?a!?r=/s - ?`but se-e, then we + might ac tually feel=_ (f^or the p:(oor sc$, hno ;, o]? k= , a$ nd ?we'd/:\ see: Sciorra:='s ch @,_ara;/cter i- n a? po:or $ light^@. And since t hat particular au( ]?dience reactio::#n doesn't se%]rve..: the)\; romanti):;c comedy, the sto%\%`ry tries to sneak around it. Y-% .ou ma?^)y s)t) !$art to fee:l(+ tha^t, like the husban+d, you're `.being `taken. Further dissatisfac_) tio n is jus%t around the corne;r _i%n the endi(%n,-g. .We $!*`realize this is where misu(@n ,derstan%:dings will get sort,ed]$ out, and our couple will f$ i]]n(ally see a clea r``=\@ p =ath to on+e _ another. We$ w)ant/; the ?( sa) t isfa+ \c$tion of rooti # ng for t h#e_ @m. But it's @marr;[\ed by ano* $the `r unbelievab le ^ch#=(aracte%- ^r r]-ea ctio\+n, followed) by a^`n :abrupt *#!conclusion \!?th.*at=-: feels rushed and forced, too ea#s_y and une [%a r_=n]% ed. You ? ^may \feel as th+ /ough the mov= -ie's*# cheat% ,ing on you again...