The Men's Club

    The Men's Club
    1986

    Synopsis

    Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

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      Cast

      • David DukesPhillip
      • Richard JordanKramer
      • Harvey KeitelSolly Berliner
      • Frank LangellaHarold Canterbury
      • Roy ScheiderCavanaugh
      • Craig WassonPaul
      • Treat WilliamsTerry
      • Stockard ChanningNancy
      • Gina GallegoFelicia
      • Cindy PickettHannah

      Recommandations

      • 63

        Chicago Tribune

        So the bad news about The Men's Club is that it leans heavily on cliche; the good news is that it treats the cliche with elan and it doesn't waste a splendid cast. [24 Sept 1986, p.4C]
      • 50

        Los Angeles Times

        There’s a good movie buried in it, but it stays buried--and, by the end, the annoyances outweigh the pleasures.
      • 50

        Chicago Reader

        There's no formal stylization to speak of, but this is, after all, a film about performances, and Medak simply points his camera at the actors and lets them chew away. Some of the chewers are better than others, and Harvey Keitel and Frank Langella especially, coming from opposite poles of intensity and languor, deliver the honest emotional goods.
      • 40

        The New York Times

        Now and then, there is some horseplay involving the whole group or an angry exchange between a couple of them, but mostly we're watching a set of shticks, some amusing, some not. It's like being at an Actor's Studio showcase.
      • 25

        TV Guide Magazine

        Director Peter Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels (working from his own novel) apparently tried to make a film like THE BIG CHILL for mature men, but the stagy result of their efforts will leave viewers cold. All of the characters are so broadly drawn that they become laughable, rather than interesting.
      • 20

        Time Out

        Flashes of genuine intelligence and wit in the writing only render the moral nihilism of the whole high-tack enterprise all the more inexcusable.
      • 20

        Variety

        Film is a distasteful piece of work that displays the worst in men. Leonard Michaels’ screenplay (from his novel) is all warts and no insight, full of self-loathing for the gender. In addition, film making is as tired as the material. Pic plays like a stageplay, so static is Peter Medak’s direction.