The Simian Line (2000)
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17% of critics liked it
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40% of users liked it
(119 ratings)
Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a… More Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a dinner for some wildly dissimilar guests: her tenets Sandra (Cindy Crawford) and Paul (Jamey Sheridan) are conservative professionals, while fellow building dwellers Marta (Monica Keena) and Billy (Dylan Bruno) are rock musicians. Also at the party is wacky psychic Arnita (Tyne Daly). During dinner, Arnita sees the spirits of another couple: Mae (Samantha Mathis), a flapper from the 1920s, and Katharine's great-grandfather Edward (William Hurt). Unnerved, Arnita predicts that one couple will split up by year's end. Though initially shaken, the guests brush her off as a nut. Yet toward the year's end, Katharine grows increasingly jealousy of Rick's flirtation with Sandra. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Linda Yellen
- Written By
- Gisela Bernice, Linda Yellen
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 15, 2000 Wide
- Studio
- Gabriel Film Group
Critic Reviews
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
It's a banal little indie ensemble comedy.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
It's partly the characters and partly the performers who are responsible for generating more feelings in the afterlife than the film's Weehawken Six achieve in here and now.
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Gene Seymour, Newsday
The story, such as it is, is hackneyed mush of the most contrived and patronizing kind.
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Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
One of those exercises in romantic whimsy that misses its mark: It's alternately sappy and uncomfortably harsh.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Reveals [Yellen's] mastery of artifice and theatricality in the service of eliciting genuine emotion and insight into human nature.
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Cast
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Lynn Redgrave
as Katharine
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Jamey Sheridan
as Paul
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Cindy Crawford
as Sandra
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Samantha Mathis
as Mae
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Dylan Bruno
as Billy
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Monica Keena
as Marta
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Harry Connick Jr.
as Rick
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Tyne Daly
as Arnita
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William Hurt
as Edward
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Eric Stoltz
as Sam
- Jeremy Zelig
