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      Bad Manners

      R Released Oct 25, 1997 1 hr. 28 min. Comedy Drama List
      85% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 43% 100+ Ratings Audience Score When married professors Wes (David Strathairn) and Nancy (Bonnie Bedelia) invite fellow academic Matt (Saul Rubinek) and his girlfriend, Kim (Caroleen Feeney), over for dinner, the gathering soon descends into an emotionally charged evening. Nancy and Matt are former lovers, a fact that makes Wes tense, and things get worse when the uptight host suspects that Kim has stolen $50 from him. As these and other issues surface, the film points to problems inherent in relationships and in academia. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Bad, boring and bloody awful! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member To be fair the context in which I saw this was late night on tv. I kept expecting it to become soft porn the way movies at that time sometimes do. It didn't. Instead it was an exploration of trust. Sort of like the play 'proof' but with ethnomusicology instead of mathematical theory. a 'quote' of an old religious composition appears in a contemporary composition that has been created by computer programs from random sequences or something. also $50 goes missing. mistrust makes everything descend into a chaos of accusations and interpersonal misconduct between wordy academics. the moral: don't invite ex lovers to stay over. come on kids that's an easy one. the other moral: probably when there's an ethnomusicologist character giving a dissertation at harvard it's not going to turn into hilarious soft porn. oops. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I think me and Leonard Maltin are the only people who saw this great character study. Some have called it "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"-lite and I can see the comparison. Wonderful performances all around especially by the always underrated Bonnie Bedelia. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Really clever little movie which I randomly watched on tv at 3am. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: B Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Wickedly funny. Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 17, 2005 Full Review Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Rated: 4/5 Aug 18, 2004 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 3/5 Jul 30, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis When married professors Wes (David Strathairn) and Nancy (Bonnie Bedelia) invite fellow academic Matt (Saul Rubinek) and his girlfriend, Kim (Caroleen Feeney), over for dinner, the gathering soon descends into an emotionally charged evening. Nancy and Matt are former lovers, a fact that makes Wes tense, and things get worse when the uptight host suspects that Kim has stolen $50 from him. As these and other issues surface, the film points to problems inherent in relationships and in academia.
      Director
      Jonathan Kaufer
      Executive Producer
      John Davis
      Screenwriter
      David Gilman
      Distributor
      Phaedra Cinema
      Production Co
      Davis Entertainment Classics
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 25, 1997, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 21, 2019
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Dolby
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