I Melt With You (2011):

Starring:

Thomas Jane - Richard

Jeremy Piven - Ron

Rob Lowe - Jonathan

Christian McKay - Tim

Carla Gugino - Officer Boyde

Tom Bower - Captain Bob

Arielle Kebbel - Randi

Zander Eckhouse - Jonah

Sasha Grey - Raven

Rebecca Creskoff - Amanda

Melora Hardin - Jane

Director:

Mark Pellington (Arlington Road; Mothman Prophecies; Henry Poole Is Here)

Rotten Tomatoes: 13%

Flixster: 45%

Synopsis:

Richard, Ron, Jonathan and Tim are old college friends that gather annually for a week in Big Sur to celebrate their friendship and catch-up on each other's lives. They seem like typical men in their forties - all with careers, families, and enormous responsibilities - but like most people there is a lot more beneath the surface. As the week progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess as mountains of drugs are consumed to a blaring rock 'n' roll soundtrack. Parties with much younger women spin out of control. Exhausted and run ragged, they bare their souls to one another revealing the disillusionment with their lives. As the truth emerges, the reunion takes a much darker turn when a promise from their past is brought to light.

Review:

A powerhouse cast full of some leading men, but the story & movie is just complete garbage. A group of college friends in their 40's who meet once a year to just do as many drugs as humanly possible, drink their faces off & relive their glory days. This is where the story loses its touch & credibility. Its nothing more than a bunch of whiny old men, crying over what their lives have become & what they've all lost in their lives. It's not so much that the individual performances are bad, or that they are over the top, but by the middle of the film you have just lost any form of sympathy or general interest in any of the characters melodramatic crybaby problems. The only one with any real misery in his life is McKay, but his character is very lost in the midst of an all out wreck yourself fest. Now when I first saw a preview for this they had hyped up the fact that adult film star Sasha Grey had a role in the film, in fact she is even on the cover of the DVD. She even gets higher billing on the cover than Christian McKay. Yet she has nothing more than a brief on screen cameo that includes a nude scene. There is just something unappealing about a porn star being topless in a mainstream film that just made me not care at all. The final scenes of the film were just a cluster fuck of nothing & not interesting at all. By the time it's all over, you just wish it had come to an end when it was relevant....which was an hour or so into it.

24%

Main Acting: 9/15
Supporting Cast: 2/15

Plot: 2/10
Compared To The Genre: 2/10

Cinematography: 3/20

Intrigue: 1/20

Extra: 5/10