The Dilemma

Movie: The Dilemma

Cast:    Kevin James                (Nick Brannen)

            Vince Vaughn              (Ronny Valentine)

            Winona Ryder             (Geneva)

            Jennifer Connelly         (Beth)

Genre: comedy

Synopsis: Nick Brannen and Ronny Valentine are best friends who co-own an automobile design company.  Nick is the mechanical genius and Ronny is the marketing whiz.  They have a shot at landing a huge contract with one of the major car manufacturers.  Meantime Ronny is trying to work up the nerve to propose to his girlfriend, Beth.  Things get complicated when he inadvertently sees Nick’s wife, Geneva having a tryst with another man.

The movie follows Ronny’s dilemma on whether or not to tell Nick.  While wrestling with the problem, Ronny learns that things are not always cut and dried with relationships.  And . . . Nick is heading for ulcer-city trying to get his latest car design perfected before the deadline.

My two cents: My first problem here is that Vince Vaughn’s voice and way of talking is like fingernails on a blackboard to me.  Getting past that, I think that the roles should have been reversed.  I think it would have been a much better and funnier movie if Kevin James’ character discovered Vince Vaughn’s character’s wife cheating. In particular, I think Kevin James would have added a lot of physical comedy and would have been funnier trying to figure out what to do.

The movie had a lot of funny stuff, just not enough.

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