Serious Moonlight

2009
5.3| 1h24m| R| en
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A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.

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ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!
Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
qormi We find Meg Ryan, who has never looked hotter, lowering herself and losing all dignity to keep a not-so-hot husband who has been cheating on her and who happens to speak and act like a teenager. This alleged comedy contains such humorous ingredients as bondage, torture, brutality, and sexual assault. There is even a scene where a goldfish bowl is smashed onto the floor,with the poor fish flopping about (what..they couldn't have used a rubber prop fish?). The dialog is so unrealistic and the acting so poor that I just couldn't finish watching this self-indulgent exercise in immature drivel.The movie was very disturbing,not so much as you were watching something unrealistic and not so much as you witnessed brutality and sexual molestation, but that it was intended to actually have been funny.
moonspinner55 Coming home unexpectedly one afternoon, a chattering businesswoman discovers not only is her husband leaving her, but also that he has fallen in love with another woman and was planning a rose-pedaled seduction in the couple's bedroom. She takes action by knocking him out temporarily and duct-taping him to a chair (and then to a toilet) in an attempt--one presumes--to hash out their problems rationally. Marital discord making for an unfunny dark comedy, with Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton failing to create a convincing union (tattered or otherwise). Who on earth foots the bill for anemic productions like this? Picture starts out poorly and manages, somehow, to get progressively worse. Is there a message of some kind in Adrienne Shelly's strident script? If so, it is as well-hidden as Hutton's once-celebrated acting skills. The pits! NO STARS from ****
kosmasp Looking at the cast of the movie, you'd think you have a nice comedy at hand. Well it's anything but nice. And this is exactly where it lost (with me). Having two lead characters that are so despicable as the two at hand here, never really connected me with them. That it is borderline insane (the set-up, which gets even more ridiculous by an ending that is pretty clear, but gets "explained" here on IMDb, if you happened to miss that) and tries to "hammer" in things (quite literally at times), does not make this any better than other movies. It just makes it very different than them.It wasn't my cup of tea and if the actors were worse, I would have rated this lower. But while other movies try to establish an alternate reality or world, this grounds itself into reality and therefor is prone to be judged by that. Of course, since tastes are different, you might actually like it (because of all the things I've listed, not despite) ...
Gordon-11 This film is about a woman coming back home to find her husband writing a note asking for divorce. She holds her husband captive to try to win him back."Serious Moonlight" has only two actors most of the time, and the whole film is set in a house. Yet, it manages to maintain viewers' attention by the spectrum of emotions the two go through as the day progresses. The plot is engaging, but I find the husband's change of heart a little too abrupt. The final few seconds of the film is simple and yet effectively suggests something sinister has happened, thereby opening up viewers' imagination as to why things happened this way. "Serious Moonlight" is an interesting portrayal of a troubled couple who searches their soul for answers.