Featured Audience Ratings

• Cynthia S

  
  A finely crafted indie drama, with outstanding performances by Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. It moves forward with such amazing clarity, and painful honesty. Anyone that has ever had to go through a divorce, or even a difficult doomed relationship, can recognize how real this… More
  A finely crafted indie drama, with outstanding performances by Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. It moves forward with such amazing clarity, and painful honesty. Anyone that has ever had to go through a divorce, or even a difficult doomed relationship, can recognize how real this movie is....and sad. This film shows a non-sugarcoated portrayal of love.

• Jim H

  
  Watching this relationship begin is like a bad car wreck. The couple's relationship progresses way too quickly - before we are able to get to know them well and before they are able to really understand each other. More to the point, Stuart is a first-class, grade A asshole.… More
  Watching this relationship begin is like a bad car wreck. The couple's relationship progresses way too quickly - before we are able to get to know them well and before they are able to really understand each other. More to the point, Stuart is a first-class, grade A asshole. He's almost impossible to like. What is interesting is the film's attempt to give us intelligent characters. It is as though Lipsky saw a Woody Allen movie and said, "I want characters who read in my film too!" Except, when Stuart goes off on his complex analysis of Nicole's character, it is more presumptuous than accurate, more like an authorial voice than his. Structurally, <i>Flannel Pajamas</i> is a mess. Many of the "other things" that interfere in this couple's relationship seem to come from left field. This is particularly true of the mother-in-law's antisemitism, which was so radical a departure from the action that I wondered if this film was too autobiographical ... or simply poorly made. But for all its flaws, I found myself charmed by <i>Flannel Pajamas</i>. I think I respect what the film was trying to do, even though it never got there. After all, life's events, which intrude on our relationships, never happen in manner conducive to good story-telling. Overall, see a real Woody Allen movie or <i>Scenes from a Marriage</i> instead, but if you've seen all of these, then scrape <i>Flannel Pajamas</i> off the bottom of the barrel.

• paul s

  
  a film that wallows in its own oddity. There are scenes of poetic dialogue and others that are just so obvious that you wonder why they didn't end up on the cutting room floor. There is good acting going on here, but somehow, by the end of the film you just don't care… More
  a film that wallows in its own oddity. There are scenes of poetic dialogue and others that are just so obvious that you wonder why they didn't end up on the cutting room floor. There is good acting going on here, but somehow, by the end of the film you just don't care anymore. Many have said that the message of the film is that "real" love can't survive. That's bull - this isn't real love, at least not in the male lead's case - he loves that he can dominate and manipulate her - which, while being a form of self love, shows he doesn't love her at all (proven by his sudden "need" for her after she finally grows a spine and leaves him). The revelations about the lead's envy of his crazy brother hold more attention than the 2nd half of the film, which seems to spin out of control and fall into a pattern of non-sequitors like the hospital cafeteria conversation with the mother, which starts out with her proclaiming anti-semitism, but then saying that had nothing to do with her dislike for him, and her feelings that he wasn't right for her daughter. Ok, I'll buy that often truths are couched behind a smoke screen of other words, but this was just out there and left you feeling ambivelent about the entire affair.

• Curtis L

  
  At first I thought this movie was just an excuse to show lots of nudity. As it progressed it became a pretty interesting depiction of a couple who are happy and get married ignoring things that later in their marriage become a problem, eventually leading to a divorce. That's… More
  At first I thought this movie was just an excuse to show lots of nudity. As it progressed it became a pretty interesting depiction of a couple who are happy and get married ignoring things that later in their marriage become a problem, eventually leading to a divorce. That's really the whole plot, and it's more of an exploration of the event than anything else.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic]"Flannel Pajamas" takes place in New York City where Stuart(Justin Kirk) and Nicole(Julianne Nicholson) have been set up on a blind date by their mutual therapist, Cathy(Stephanie March).(Ethics anyone?) Stuart is a sales group manager for Broadway… More
  [font=Century Gothic]"Flannel Pajamas" takes place in New York City where Stuart(Justin Kirk) and Nicole(Julianne Nicholson) have been set up on a blind date by their mutual therapist, Cathy(Stephanie March).(Ethics anyone?) Stuart is a sales group manager for Broadway plays while Nicole, originally from Montana and a large family, is in sales and wants to one day write a cookbook. The date goes well and they see each other again. As the relationship progresses, they decide to share a high rise apartment with a great view of the Hudson River.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]Written and directed by Jeff Lipsky, "Flannel Pajamas" is an honest, unflinching and unashamedly erotic view of relationships, including the ups and downs, the compromises, and the misunderstandings. The movie starts out great, but eventually does go on too long, as it seeks to satisfy an unnecessary need to spell things out, especially why Nicole is in therapy. And it does resemble a play too much for its own good.(Gene Seymour, the reviewer for Newsday, invoked "Scenes from a Marriage" in his review. I was also thinking a little bit of Woody Allen.) I wish it would have explored New York City more and not spent so much time indoors.(Although there is something to be said for the claustrophobic aura.) As a friend recently explained, people in Manhattan do not mind having small apartments, if they are never home. [/font]