The particulars: Alan (Torn) is a legendary songwriter/producer in Memphis who lives with his Russian girlfriend Laura (Dina Korzun) and their young son. One day Alan's grown son Michael (Darren Burrows) arrives; he's a bundle of unhappiness and neuroses, trapped in a bad marriage.
Laura, who seems to be largely ignored by Alan, is desperately lonely and seems to be unable to form meaningful connections with people. So it isn't too much of a surprise when she has a few joyless sexual encounters with Michael behind Alan's back. Alan doesn't seem to notice much of anything; we're told he's a legend of R&B music, but the one song we actually hear him creating is a horrid rap/funk creation with an overlay of classical piano.
You keep waiting for the consequences of the erotic betrayal to be revealed and for Torn to go off, but things end in pretty much the same mood of melancholy and disaffection that they began. Where's the story? I look forward to seeing Torn in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette , he has a few rich moments here but deserved better.
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