Janeane Garofalo dispels the whiff of activist earnestness and gets back to her light-comedy roots (remember The Truth About Cats and Dogs?) with this breezy tale of a dating expert who's better at doling out advice than acting on it.

A wretched piece of work... Janeane (and her fans) deserve better.

by Grigory's  Girl

This is a really bad, made for TV movie for the Oxygen network. Made for TV movies are generally below par, but this one is 400 notches below that. I couldn't even make it through the whole thing.

It's extremely depressing to watch, because it's so badly written and directed. Seeing Janeane Garofalo in this tripe makes it especially painful as well.

Knowing how articulate and intelligent she can be, it hurts to see her in this "film". Maybe she had bills to pay. She deserve better material, a lot better.

She has a cult fan base, and perhaps they're willing to see her in any type of setting. I'm not, but I would love to see her in something brilliant.

The fact that this is out on DVD proves that they will put just about anything on DVD.

EDITOR: JEFF KANEW

Jeff Kanew has had a long and varied career in the motion picture business. He began as a trailermaker, creating trailers for over 500 films including "The Graduate", "Midnight Cowboy", Rocky, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Annie Hall", "Last Tango in Paris", "All the President's Men", and "On Golden Pond".
 
In 1971, he produced, directed, and edited "Black Rodeo" a feature length documentary featuring Woody Strode and Muhammed Ali.
 
He began his dramatic directing career with "Natural Enemies" - a small, critically acclaimed drama starring Hal Holbrook and Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher - which Kanew also wrote and edited. As a director, Kanew has lended himself to a range of projects including and Alfred Hitchock Presents, “Eddie Macon’ s Run” and National Lampoon’s "Adam and Eve".
 
As an editor, Kanew went on to edit the Academy Award winning “Ordinary People”.  In 2005, He edited "Nadine in Dateland"...an Oxygen romantic-comedy starring Janeane Garafalo.
 
Most recently, he worked with Paul Mazursky on "Yippee" - a documentary that recently premiered at the Montreal, and Palm Springs Film Festivals, which Kanew co-produced and edited.

-- GoodNightVagina.com

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