When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
Here's a safe prediction: movie critics are going to have fun with the title of If I Were You.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
28 Nov 2013
rotten:
"If I Were You'' has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
15 Mar 2013
rotten:
Harden is a wonderful actress but struggles to find the complexity in so strained a situation.
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar 2013
rotten:
Buried in the bloat of Joan Carr-Wiggin's interminable "If I Were You" are the seeds of what might have been a lean, snappy farce about duplicitous, adulterous games.