Two Ninas
Kvetching budding novelist Marty (Office Space's Ron Livingston) goes
from woefully dateless to downright duplicitous when he starts seeing two women
named Nina (Cara Buono and Amanda Peet). It's a contrived, Three's
Company-ish plot set amid the neon nightlife of New York City and narrated
-- sometimes amusingly, sometimes excessively -- by Marty's smarmy best buddy
(Bray Poor). However, within this by-the-book romantic-comedy, first-time
writer/director Neil Turitz limns shaded, thoroughly engaging performances from
an amiable cast. Likewise, his gift for scripting Gen X-inflected banter (one
running gag finds the characters pronouncing "asshole" as "as-sho-lé")
never eclipses the surprisingly earnest themes about commitment, forgiveness,
and the eccentricities of love. Although the formula that solves this triangle
is as familiar as Pythagoras's, Two Ninas still adds up to one guilty
pleasure. Screens at the Copley Place Wednesday, September 15 at 7:30 and 10 p.m. and
Thursday, September 16 at 1, 3, and 5 p.m.
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