TurquoiseB wrote:
> No, not the Rajas dressing up as straight people
> for the cameras, the movie. :-)
>
> I just watched it, and I don't understand why it
> didn't do better. There is great chemistry here
> onscreen, between two of the great masters of
> chemistry, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Good
> plot and backup performances from Paul Giamatti
> and Tom Wilkinson to boot. Snappy dialog, corp-
> orate espionage, players who are totally unemo-
> tional professionals...except when jealousy and
> emotion gets in the way, the whole tamale.
>
> It's a caper flick, a "quadruple game," a classic
> of the genre, the original "Thomas Crown Affair"-
> like, with twists and turns and tension out the
> wazoo. And funny and sexy to boot.
>
> But it flopped at the box office. As if Julia
> Roberts were too old to lust after or something.
> Maybe it's the Taos vibe (she lives there, and I
> used to live in Santa Fe), but I still think she's
> hotter than yer average babe. Go figure.
If she could only act.
