Amy Stevens, Audrey Ruttan, Dan Gatto

Splendor, a sexy, stylish, and giddy romp about a white-bread beauty and her bevy of beaus, is designed to charm you while splattering romantic idealism in your face. Veronica is a picket-fence-pretty...( read more  read more... ) actress searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam-dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet who moves her soul deeper than anyone before. Ten minutes later, she locks eyes with Zed, a supersexy, tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Veronica faces a dilemma: Should she choose love or sex appeal? Whatever--this is LA--she chooses both! But after Abel, Zed, and Veronica form a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a handsome movie director with a set of baby blues and a bank account that sweep her off her feet. Now what is a girl to do? With a kick-ass sound track and Generation Extreme art direction, Araki gives a campy twist to the one girl-two guys routine. His rebellious sensibilities are all over this romance as he playfully perverts the hetero ideals of the nuclear family and fantasies of knights in shining armor. Defying the rules of physics and convention, Veronica and her boys find happiness on their own resplendently shallow terms.

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Gregg Araki

Release Date: September 17, 1999

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DVD Release Date: November 23, 1999

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  • November 7, 2006
    I liked it.
  • April 7, 2006
    This was like no other storyline in a movie I've ever seen. Totally different.
  • July 5, 2009
    The opening credit sequence is trippy and beautiful. The story is shallow. Kathleen Robertson is hot. I would only recommend this film for the opening credits alone. That's it.
  • October 14, 2008
    Appropriately-titled, hip film with a new genuine level of substance I'd have not imagined Araki interested in. It sidesteps the obvious "kinkiness" which would seem integral to the story and instead presents something genuine though unconventional. Spendor is a love story; and, ...( read more)just as each love is individual and unique, the unconventional relationship depicted in this film resists easy judgemnt: it is unique and it's feelings are genuine, and therefore, it is a valid realtionship.
  • September 25, 2008
    El rostro de la actriz Kathleen Robertson, en imponente close-up, se va intercalando conforme relata sus aventuras amorosas en Splendor (1999), fallida película cuyos atractivos temas sobre las relaciones y la dura realidad juvenil para salir adelante, se van por la borda debido ...( read more)a un pésimo tratamiento de comedia.

    Dirigida por el californiano Gregg Araki (Nowhere), el filme cuenta cómo la desorientada y experimental Verónica (Robertson) conoce a dos tipos en una fiesta: Abel (Johnathon Schaech), aspirante a novelista, y Zed (Matt Keslar), baterista de una banda de rock. Verónica trabaja en ventas telefónicas y aspira a convertirse en actriz. Con una mentalidad muy práctica pensará: ?para qué decantarse por Abel o Zed, si puedo salir con ambos a la vez?.

    El grave problema es el simplón tratamiento de comedia, que apenas y logra que uno esboce una sonrisa, al ver cómo resuelven Abel y Zed el hecho de que tienen que convivir bajo el mismo techo y compartir a la misma chica. Además, los personajes se notan mal construidos, empezando por Verónica. Sus conflictos del pasado y presente no terminan por convencer, debido a que toman el camino más obvio y sencillo. Es cierto que en Splendor tenemos una posición a favor de la bigamia, pero sus bases son tan pobres, que al ver ese matrimonio que nunca llega a celebrarse, el mismo Araki acaba por decirnos que la monogamia es la opción más segura, sobre todo emocionalmente.
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  • September 10, 2008
    i loved Mike and her little dog y_y how cute!
    for the rest...it's pretty much a gregg araki one, that's what you should expect. nothing more nothing less.
  • March 8, 2008
    yaa bunu da bulamadim flixster.
  • July 3, 2007
    It just bored me. Not interesting as the synopsis mentioned.
  • June 29, 2007
    It has it's moments.
  • June 19, 2007
    I love this movie. It gives you an idea that different lifestyles work for different people. Very cute movie, well done.

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