Living Out Loud

(New Line)

This pseudo-feminist romantic comedy stars Holly Hunter as lonely, neurotic Fifth Avenue divorcée Judith, who reaches out to a smoky chanteuse (a radiant Queen Latifah) and a homunculus elevator operator (Danny DeVito), gets blotto, pays for sex, throws muffins, and, in one of the Ally McBeal-esque fantasy scenes, locates her inner child in a lesbian dance club. The most indelible image of female strength in this schmaltzy tale of empowerment turns out to be Hunter's distractingly buff biceps.