Tribeca: "Sleeping With Other People"
Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 5:00PM Tribeca ends tonight but we'll have a few more reviews for you as the team finishes up. Here's Joe Reid...
After the phenomenal success of Bachelorette (creatively if not commercially; I'm still fuming that it never got the promotional push it deserved), I expected Leslye Headland's follow-up film to have that same dark-heart-with-teeth approach to the tried and true "can men and women be friends" comedy. Intriguingly, a few things about that statement turned out to be not the case. The humor in Sleeping with Other People is still incredibly sharp, but where Bachelorette was as hard as nails when it came to female singlehood in a wedding-drenched world, Sleeping with Other People puts its beating heart on display.
Which isn't to say Headland has gone soft. [More...]