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[Sutherland] never quite balances the darkness attending Michael's problem with the sunshine glowing everywhere else.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones
Some Choices are Harder than Others
2003 · 1h 40m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Sudz Sutherland
Overview
A sexy urban comedy about how a guy who is addicted to watching pornography discovers love is stronger than fantasy when he meets and falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
Director and cast
- Sudz Sutherland Director
- Hill Harper as Michael Joseph
- Marlyne Barrett as Jasmine LeJeune
- Mark Taylor as Glenroy 'Sweets' Lindo
- Marieka Weathered as Lisette
- Kai Soremekun as Peaches LeJeune
- Karen Robinson as Heather Taylor
- Jennifer Baxter as Trish Papandreou
- Ed Robertson as Kennedy
- Jason Harrow as Andre Patterson (as Kardinal Offishall)
- Kenny Robinson as Robbie MacKinnon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Sutherland's artful trick is to stick a serious tension -- sex objects versus love subjects -- into a genre flick without losing his balance, without sacrificing either the comedic levity or the thematic weight.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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