#One night stand full movie youtube series#

And she replies: вЂњI'm a rocket scientist.As someone who has never partaken in a true one-night stand, IвЂ™m never not interested in hearing about them in exquisite detail. And Kinski, although under-used, is warm and fetching, and gets maybe the movie's best line. Even the Wesley Snipes character, presumably at the center of the action, acts more as a master of ceremonies, leading us from one diversion to another. It is so well acted and written that it convincingly shoulders aside its central premise and works because of the subplots and the supporting characters. Strange, that these observations did not get in the way of my enjoyment of the movie as a whole.

#One night stand full movie youtube series#

Compared to the power of these scenes, the movie's ending plays as a Meet Cutest, with some sly exploitation of what we assume about a series of two-shots. There's a party in his hospital room and a celebration held by his friends, both recalling the tenderness of the 1996 movie вЂњ It's My Party,вЂќ where Eric Roberts was the dying man. In the last act of the movie, the romance essentially becomes a backdrop for the real drama, which involves Charlie's illness. For example, a discussion of an ad campaign for a pickle manufacturer, and a fight between Max and his wife. This version adds several scenes that play well, but seem to belong in a movie about Max, not Max and Karen. I wonder if the Eszterhas version paid more attention to Karen. (Figgis observed at the Toronto Film Festival that Eszterhas' partner Ben Myron still has a producer's credit-вЂќalthough I never met him.вЂќ) What Figgis liked, he said, was the three-act structure of the original script, by which I think he means the way that the lovers Meet Cute, part and Meet Cuter. The original screenplay was by Joe Eszterhas, who removed his name after reading Figgis' rewrite. The writing credit for вЂњOne Night StandвЂќ goes to Figgis. I liked him, and I also liked the character of Max's wife Mimi, who is written with much more detail than the Kinski character, and played by Ming-Na Wen as smart, observant, fiery and extremely clear about what she likes in bed. He has a sense of humor even on his deathbed, and gets one of the movie's best laughs just by raising his eyebrows. I did find myself caring about Charlie, the best friend with AIDS, who is played by Downey as a man determined not to go solemnly into that great night.

But I didn't much care, because the real interest in the film is not the relationship between Max and Karen, and the Karen character is so underwritten that Kinski has to create it mostly out of surfaces and body language. And eventually all of the romantic problems are sorted out. The central question would seem to be, how do Max and Karen handle this embarrassing development? The two adulterers go through the motions required by movie convention (вЂњAs far as I'm concerned,вЂќ Karen says, вЂњnothing happenedвЂќ). Max flies back to New York, meets Charlie's brother Vernon ( Kyle MacLachlan) and his wife Karen-who is, of course, Kinski. Read no further unless you want to know that Charlie is in the hospital with weeks to live. He returns to Los Angeles and his wife Mimi ( Ming-Na Wen), his children, and the family dog, who growls softly while sniffing his crotch. Max was in New York to visit his best friend Charlie ( Robert Downey Jr.), who is HIV-positive.