Thanks for the memories!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan) is a New York City high school English teacher. She is hounded by her ex John Graham. Her half-sister best friend Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) pursues a married man. Frannie meets her student Cornelius Webb at a bar where she becomes entranced by a woman giving oral sex in the back room. Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) interviews her about a body part left outside her window. She fantasizes about Malloy who asks about the incident at the bar. Richard Rodriguez is Malloy's foul-mouthed police partner.Meg Ryan was trying to play against her romantic type casting. She is at least able to achieve that. Filmmaker Jane Campion delivers a indie-verier erotic thriller although the thrills don't get there. Frannie is a disconnected and fractured character. The movie is able accentuate that concept but it does need more paranoia in order for the thrills to land. The murky weird stuff in her character is great but the movie falls flat overall. The plot simply does not move enough.

This is my first review on IMDb and I've chosen In the Cut because I think it's simply the most underrated film ever made. The perspicacious manner in which the characters subtly squirm into their respective roles is scintillating. This film is sexy and its dark and quintessentially so. I love Mark Ruffalo, he's almost seedy to the point of criminality yet is able to encapsulate a determined sexual energy that he superimposes upon the frigidity of Meg Ryan - who is gorgeous in this, if nothing else she's real and vulnerable, a great performance. Don't expect this film to create the perfect theatrical arc, it won't. Allow the atmosphere of unsettling mystery and damaged persona into your thinking and this becomes a dark portrayal of sexual frustration, licentiousness and fear. It's all about the frailty of the human condition. This is Campion at her best.

Ehrrr... It's like "Se7en" for the ladies, maybe? I had mixed feelings about this one, story-wise. I didn't really like the ending, but I did like the very last shot of the film. And besides, this movie's got other things going for it... The cinematography, for example (you guys were expecting me to say something about Meg Ryan going gratuitously nude in this one, right?). By the way, you American DVD-renters got dissed again: the fellatio-scene in the beginning of the movie is cut in the regular rentals. My European version wasn't (but I've heard you guys do have an "Uncut Director's Edition"). Oh, and what was up with the numerous random shots portraying an American flag throughout the whole movie? Anybody got an explanation? Anyway, "In The Cut" is worth a watch, if not alone for the buzz it caused upon its release.

It's different and if you are a Meg Ryan fan then you should check it out.However only if you are willing to watch her go completely out will the boundaries of anything you have come to know and love her in. I hate when i'm watching a film and an actress i love ends up naked without any reason. So yes I see why folk slam this, there is a lot of nudity, most of It Ryan's however it is integral to the story. Admittedly there could have been a lot less of it.I wasn't expecting much given that i though i was sitting down to watch "against the ropes" on the TV. The sexual nature almost made me turn the TV off but the performances from both Ryan and Ruffalo are so engaging. Given a chance the story is also something you can easily get into. By the end of it I loved it.Actors are constantly slammed for not going out there comfort zone, yet here is someone so far out of her "cumfy" zone its like an alternate universe. Handeling it so well, she deserves so much more praise than she ever got.I've never seen another Campion movie but this was handled well and i may look into some more of her work but only if its story out weighs the explicit content.Watch it, only if you are willing to see Ryan do something against type. It's more powerful than any Julia Roberts performance.