haggar

(2012-04-30 01:16:13)

Poor man, he's bored.

My wife and I just couldn't muster the energy and will to watch a movieabout a man who has everything (wife, daughter and job), and is in arather enviable position overall. And his problem is... well, wecouldn't figure out. He's bored? Doesn't "like his life"? So, let'smake a movie about it, shall we?The premise to this movie is so preposterous, that his audience may beleft completely unsympathetic to the main character, or even lesssympathetic to the whole enterprise that made the movie possible.The saving grace of this movie is the good directing - there's a pinchof comedy to give a genre direction to the movie, but apart that, thecharacters seem rather genuine. Sadly, the whole plot is stillborn andworthless.

Tom Keogh

(2012-04-29 15:35:14)

Multiple Sarcasms has a way of creatively meandering into unexpected pockets of comedy and poignancy, heading toward some kind of eventual grace, a little like real life.

mj_egypt

(2012-04-28 20:06:38)

good movie to kick back and watch

I thought this was a good movie all in all. The acting was good and sowas the story line. It was a tale of a man who was trying to findhimself and find happiness in his life, isn't this what we all aresearching for in the end? The main character Gabe wanted to be a writerso he gave up everything to do this. I think sometimes people are overcritical of movies and over analyze things...just sit back and enjoythe ride and try to find a moral to the story instead of finding allthe flaws. because this is what is wrong with our society as a whole,we always look for the flaws. So i would definitely recommend thismovie it was different from the mainstream blockbusters and had somedeep meaning to it.

Brian Miller

(2012-04-28 10:01:13)

A vanity production by Branch, previously a studio branding consultant, it's the kind of odious, self-validating wish fulfillment that actually makes you appreciate the more generous self-absorption of Henry Jaglom films.

KatjaE

(2012-04-20 00:33:31)

boring

Did not like, nearly left half way through. What was the point??? The guy had a good life but didn't know why he was unhappy - a very unsympathetic character.

(2012-04-19 15:05:14)

No sarcasm for Timothy Hutton...only praises!

This review is from: Multiple Sarcasms (DVD) How can you not love Timothy Hutton! Great job by all the cast members and especially loved the scenes with actress Paris Rose Yates as Elizabeth's best friend!

Ronnie Scheib

(2012-04-08 00:23:12)

Timothy Hutton's fine, loose-limbed perf as a man adrift lifts Multiple Sarcasms, frosh scribe-helmer Brooks Branch's male menopause apologia, out of cliche-ridden territory -- at least temporarily.

Aaron Hillis

(2012-04-07 19:42:08)

This hoary midlife-crisis tale is watchable solely for its reliable cast.

Doris Toumarkine

(2012-04-05 02:15:57)

So-so, light tale of a successful New York architect who endangers his comfortable, conventional life to navel-gaze and write a play provides some moments for the always watchable Timothy Hutton. But there's not much else to watch.

Betsy Sharkey

(2012-04-04 18:12:10)

Multiple Sarcasms is Woody Allen lite -- there's a lot of introspective fumbling around and intellectual foreplay. But in the end, instead of a satisfying climax, it feels like someone is faking it.

Avi Offer

(2012-04-01 23:16:40)

An often uneven, inorganic drama centered around a dull, tediously narcissistic character who's as irritating as nails on a chalkboard.

(2012-04-01 13:46:57)

GAG!

A pretentious piece of trash, the dialogue seems to be taken with trying to convince us how these characters are sophisticated New York intellectuals as they make references to behaving like white trash (heaven forbid) yet their favorite expletive is the f-bomb. Then they go on a vagina tirade and it seems they play a game of how many times they can get the word into a 2 minute scene like naughty little school boys who just learned what the word means. Who uses the word vagina anyway other than medical people? Taking the Lord's name in vain seems like an after thought as though the director realized they hadn't offended enough people so he crammed it in several times nearer the end. It seems to me if being "white trash" was so abhorrent to them perhaps cleaning up their mouths might be a good place to start improving. The title even strikes me as pretentious drivel. Timothy Hutton seems to be stuck in the typewriter, scruffy beard, bathrobe, professor look these days. I think we're supposed to care about these characters but I didn't like any of them (even the precocious kid). Oh, and let's not forget the token relationship enlightened Gabriel has with his gay friend. If I were gay I'd be offended at this attempt to appeal to me. People used to make fun of white people who told black people that they had a black friend. This movie is telling us Gabriel is so with it he has a real gay friend!..... The movie is so ridiculous it's embarrassing.I doubt the movie will receive the reviews the fake playwright did in this pseudo-intellectual dud. My advice to the producer "bury it at sea some cold dark night" and then hope we all forget.

DIRKR

(2012-03-30 23:41:35)

Groaning All Around

This film has a great and diverse cast.The main character has everything going for him but is miserable,selfish,adolescent.So he writes a play-all naval gazing while he hides from his family on the john,vents to his best friend,and ignores his job.The props are 1968 to 1972 and things pop up in 1972 that didn't exist until 1976.A very bad bad movie, a silly selfish hero,out of place props,and an after school special script.

matevz-vidmar1989

(2012-03-30 19:27:23)

Maybe it is love that makes us strange.

I just watched this movie and i must admit it wasn't brilliant butbetter then a lot of other movies.The plot starts with a family seemingly happy but as you have alreadyguessed nothing is as it seems. The guy is a thinker while the wife isnot so much. Then blah blah blah and the guy writes a sarcastic play,leaves his wife, and finally gets together with his true soul mate.Now a response to the previous review: A guy criticized that the plotmakes us completely unsympathetic to the main character due to hisungratefulness to what he has(the happy family stuff). I agree that youshouldn't not leave a marriage in ruin like that but in order toachieve that you need to be on the same level of understanding withyour partner. That doesn't mean that you always agree but it means heat least gets your "multiple sarcasm". Im not talking aboutintelligence here well maybe I am so what some people get it some don'tthat is just how it is.Anyway not a bad movie but i think it dint reach the right audience.

Jeff Vice

(2012-03-25 01:54:31)

Multiple Sarcasms is a terrible title for a movie. And it's even worse for a movie that's got some other serious problems.

Noel Murray

(2012-03-24 08:03:08)

From the jokes about Hutton overreacting to his daughter's menstruation to the comic ruminations about the relative attractiveness of genitalia, Multiple Sarcasms often plays like a bad stand-up routine dramatized by serious actors.

Nick Schager

(2012-03-22 06:29:21)

The meaning of Multiple Sarcasms's title is a mystery, but then, so are many things in Brooks Branch's film.

Stephen Holden

(2012-03-21 12:59:21)

Why devote a single moment of your time to listening to his character, Gabriel Richmond, bellyache ad nauseam about having everything and still being miserable?

Tony Medley

(2012-03-19 20:41:47)

The simplistic philosophy and cast of characters out of Hollywood's bag of cliches are bad enough, but do we have to be confronted with women's female problems, too?

Frank Swietek

(2012-03-18 22:49:34)

Might serve a useful therapeutic function for its writer-director, but for the rest of us the exercise in self-examination will have a much less beneficial effect, unless you suffer from insomnia.