Synopsis
"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is their waitress. Rick's continued rudeness leads to her getting fired. She puts a curse on him. A potential rift with Duke quickly surfaces; Rick is approached by the hail-
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Cast
- Bill PullmanRick O'Lette
- Aaron StanfordDuke
- Agnes BrucknerEve O'Lette
- Sandra OhMichelle
- Dylan BakerBuck
- Emmanuelle ChriquiDuke's Long-Suffering Wife
- Marianne HaganLaura
- P.J. BrownJack Lantern
Recommandations
- 80
Film Threat
Haunting and chilling, yet biting black tragi-comedy. - 80
L.A. Weekly
This impressive - and utterly depressing - feature debut is another in the current rush of testaments to the power of the new corporation to suck the goodness from its employees and all who have the misfortune to enter its orbit. - 75
New York Post
A devilish updating of Verdi's "Rigoletto." - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
If you require that you "like" a movie, then Rick is not for you, because there is nothing likable about it. It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal. - 50
Village Voice
Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act. - 50
The New York Times
The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Feels like it was written by an oddball artist-temp type with an ax to grind - which, as it happens, it was.