A man receives an anonymous letter saying that he is the father of a 19-year-old boy. His neighbor talks him into looking for the mother among his former girlfriends.
I may be wrong about this movie but I think it just got some things wrong. The idea is to put the don-juan type on the spot, so to speak, to uncover all his wretchedness, the pointlessness of his life. There is a certain lack of connection with reality in certain areas (Murray here doesn't look or act like a don-juan, neither does he look like a successful computer genius; other people have noticed that); that connection with reality was present in the vastly superior About a Boy, a film which did not try to be downbeat and dry-witted at the cost of abstraction.
Rating: 41
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