Synopsis
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?
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Cast
- Kathleen RobertsonVeronica
- Johnathon SchaechAbel
- Matt KeeslarZed
- Kelly MacdonaldMike
- Eric MabiusErnest
- Dan GattoMutt
- Linda KimAlison
- Audrey RuttanThe Gloved One
- Nathan BextonWaiter
- Amy StevensNana Kitty Cat
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
There's a genuine, sparky chemistry between the three (and later, a fourth), and Robertson, particularly, is luminous in her role. - 70
Film.com
Beautifully shot, full of lush, vibrant colors and expertly wrought sets...a club-kid's frothy date flick. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The pleasing Splendor is surely more likely to appeal to a wider audience than any of Araki's previous films. - 63
Boston Globe
Runs out of helium and lands pretty heavily after its airy beginning. - 60
Chicago Reader
Instructive comedy, which is marvelously neutral toward a type of sexual and domestic relationship that's often exploited or overblown. - 50
Film.com
Compared to such current television shows as ''Sex and the City" and ''Action," this menage-a-trois tale seems downright tame. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
A menage a trois tale that aspires to the breezy screwball comedies of the 1930s -- but more often resembles a hip soap opera. - 40
Village Voice
Might as well be bad TV...Splendor is what happens when a director whose natural mode is subversion runs out of things to subvert.
