Wishful Thinking
Wishful Thinking
R | 12 July 1999 (USA)
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A story told from three angles. Max meets Elizabeth; they live together, but when she talks of marriage, he balks. He becomes extremely jealous, probably without cause, and thinks she's taken up with a friend of his, Jack. Elizabeth, stung by Max's refusal to marry, catches Jack's eye, but the friendship seems innocent. Lena, who works with Max, likes him and realizes she can manipulate his jealousy and maybe engineer his split from Elizabeth. When she's sure Elizabeth is with a man, she calls Max at work, sending him home to confront the lovers. Then, Lena feels guilty and takes off for Max's apartment. What's really going on? Who's with Elizabeth?

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Redwarmin

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

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Libramedi

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Roy Hart

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

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Hayleigh Joseph

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

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scabpicker

...because this movie will make you barf until you bleed. I caught maybe the last half hour of it on TV last night and cannot imagine how broke poor Jon Stewart must have been to accept a role in this movie- my heart goes out to him. And how did they manage to make someone as hot as Jennifer Beals look like a dumpy bag lady? I don't know what the actual plot line was supposed to be, something about affairs and other melodrama I don't care for when so poorly executed. I've seen high school a/v nerds exhibit better judgment over use of visual effects. At one point things turn black and white and deep meaning is supposed to be exhibited through lots of slo-mo. Pass on this one. You definitely have better things to be doing.

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kevinl-87

OK, I had high hopes for this film. I thought the "He Said, She Said" type story would be cute. There were definite quirky things in the film that I thought would be developed better, but sadly no...It seemed like they spent time on the first three "chapters", got tired and gave up. Definitely had some promise that did not deliver. So what exactly do I mean? What was up with the blue door? From Max's perspective, when he broke into the apartment the door was blue, but from Elizabeth's perspective it was yellow? What was up with the spoon? Short story at the beginning but it was not really connected that much.Another thing, most movies that begin with "Two Years Earlier" give you some perspective as to when you are back in the present time. I guess when he was shaving it was assumed that you were somewhere near the beginning of the movie.I guess that was the real problem I had with the movie. It was more of a lot of disconnected ideas mixed up into one plot. It just seemed like a so much potential, but such a waste. Maybe the director had a lot of great ideas from film school he wanted to apply to his first film.

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LushZero

with several stars, why did this sit on the miramax shelf for two years and then went straight to video? cause it sucks. even then, i was disappointed. the characters aren't interesting, the theme and structure have been done better in other movies. two good things about it, it's less than 90 minutes long, and jon stewart has some good funny lines in it. it's as bad, if not worse, than sliding doors. watch next stop wonderland, run lola run or chungking express instead.

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Hypercentury

I've just watched this movie and I found it very good. I decided to watch it because of Drew Barrymore - she is my favorite - but even though she didn't have a very big part I enjoyed this movie a lot. This movie is about a woman who wants the boyfriend of her "friend" and she does everything to take him from her. It is separated in three parts. In the first part it shows the whole story briefly. It stops in the most agonized scene. In the second part the story starts again, almost, from the beginning and shows more information about how and why and stops in the same scene and in the third and final part - which is colorless - it finishes and you finally understand what' s all this about... I put 9 out of 10

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