Charming and brutal

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Trying to make a cute movie is probably one of the most daunting tasks in cinema because once you get past baby animals and fat-faced infants, cute is a very tricky subject. It's far too easy to miss the mark and end up with a film that's unwatchably cloying or desperate. However, writer/director Jane Weinstock hit the cute bullseye with Easy.Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a problem and it's keeping her from being happy. Jamie can't quite relate to men on a mature, adult level so she substitutes sex. She sleeps with a lot of guys, all of them losers, vexing her sister Laura (Emily Dechanel) and her gay neighbor across the hall Martin (D.B. Woodside). But after John (Naveen Andrews), a romantic ideal that she has longed for since college breaks her heart, Jamie decides to become celibate for three months. Without sex as an emotional buffer, Jaime finds herself actually getting to know and care about a guy named Mick (Brian O'Byrne) who hosts a late night cable comedy show. But then John wants her back…and that's only one of a multitude of romantic challenges that make Jamie doubt she'll ever find true love and contentment. Oh, and a couple of turtles fornicate.I really like the unpretentiousness of this movie. It's one of those independent films about unhappy people and dysfunctional families, but it's never overwrought or caught up in its own supposed profundity. It deals with serious subjects like suicide, loneliness and selfishness with a light touch. Writer/director Weinstock makes it very clear that even the worst emotional pain, self-inflicted or not, isn't the end of the world.Weinstock also has a good eye for romantic realities that often get short shrift in movies. The triangle of Jamie-John-Mick fits the classic clichés of a woman caught between the sexual and sensual dream that is John and the less striking but more grounded reality that is Mick. But Weinstock doesn't let these characters be clichés. She doesn't make John great on the surface but terrible underneath and she doesn't let Mick be the perfect man beneath an ordinary appearance. Weinstock allows John to really be a good guy who just isn't right for Jaime. And while Mick is the right guy, he's allowed to have the sort of insecurities and jealousies nice guys develop after romance has kicked them around a time or two.Marguerite Moreau also gives a wonderful performance as a woman who only seems weak but is actually emotionally lazy. There's always a strength to Jaime, even when she's unsure and confused and confounded. She's just not used to tapping into it. Moreau is also very sexy in a completely approachable way. She embodies the cute girl with low standards that guys date for a while and then move on when they're bored.Now, some of the relationship crises and personal challenges in the story come and go in a very quick fashion and are resolved in fairly pat ways. But the movie moves along at a brisk pace with laid back humor and several decent love scenes.Easy is a smart, funny and unsentimental look at a young woman trying to break her old habits and take control of her own life. It's female-centric storytelling that doesn't get bogged down in romantic-comedy nonsense or feminist posturing. It's just a nice film, so go watch it.

This is the standard plot of "Which guy should should the girl choose?" The choices are: the correct choice, or the other guy. I won't spoil it for you. Even though the ending is predictable, I didn't care. I was just hoping she'd make her decision quickly so the movie would end. At least it's a short movie, something like 90 minutes.If you're going to use a tired plot, you need to do better than this. Some folks might like the gratuitous sex scenes; they did help pass the time but not to the point where it made Easy entertaining. There are plenty of romantic comedies that are better than this; if you can't find one watch an episode of Friends or Coupling.

Miss it, unless you have an awful lot of spare time.This film is about the love life of "Jamie," who is the title character. Jamie is a 20-something woman who sleeps with every guy in sight. Yup, she's easy all right. She generally seems to be okay with that. However, her random hook-ups just aren't satisfying her of late. She decides to launch into a period of celibacy, just like the main character in the mainstream film "40 Days and 40 Nights." In the mean time, her friends and relatives pair up, get pregnant, and get married in unusual combinations.While Jamie's wild ways last, this is a cute and fun movie. The characters seem slightly more genuine than usual. Jamie's sex scenes are awfully hot. However, the film quickly looses steam for lack of any sort of real plot. Well, a meandering plot less Indy film is no rarity, but the script then tries to keep us interested by springing "cheap drama" out of every futon in LA. Out of nowhere there are pregnancies, out-of-wedlock births, gay marriages, inter-color marriages, geriatric marriages, etc. Overnight, Jamie is transformed from a free-wheeling free-love adventurer to a sexually delicate and vulnerable shrinking violet.Perhaps if this film had been made 30 years ago such an unconnected series of events would have seemed interesting for being nonconformist. It might have been taken to indicate some change in society. These days, such relationships are not interesting in their own right.So, the last half breaks down into a soap opera.

I saw this with some friends at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2004 and we all loved it. This is a romantic comedy that even guys will like. One thing that really struck me is that the script was totally unpredictable without seeming contrived. It also conveyed a feeling of raw realism that was particularly well conveyed by Margeurite Moreau and Brian F. O'Byrne. There are some fairly graphic sex scenes in the second half of the film that contribute to this realism as well that are shocking but not gratuitous.My only regret with this film is that it does not seem to have found a distributor for either a theatrical release or a DVD release. My fingers are still crossed!