Synopsis
Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a more active love life while still single. Reluctantly, Ed agrees to have an open relationship in the months before their wedding, and initially this seems to improve their connection, particularly in the bedroom. However, as Ed and Alice get more involved in their own flings, the experiment goes awry.
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Cast
- Jay MohrEd
- Julianne NicholsonAlice
- Josh CharlesLou
- Andy RichterCarl
- Lauren GrahamClaire
- Bryan CranstonPeter
- Mike FaiolaTim
- Sheeri RappaportNaomi
- Mitch MorrisDoug
- Liz PhairYoga Teacher
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
While lacking a knockout scene, the script is full of solid laughs punctuated with pangs of emotional insight. - 70
Dallas Observer
What results ultimately plays like a feature-length episode of an HBO comedy series like Sex and the City -- gratuitous nudity and all. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
It's not only sexy, clever and well-acted by a fine cast of mostly TV actors, but it's also a grown-up comedyabout honest-to-God grown ups. - 60
The New York Times
There is enough discomfort on display to reinforce the cynical adage that sex is God's joke. - 50
The A.V. Club
Eventually finds its rhythm with late flashes of dark humor and bedroom hijinks, but it takes too much time to get there. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Along with the performances, there is a languid truthfulness in some of the dialogue that keeps Seeing Other People from being one of those completely forgettable indie romances that play in perpetuity on cable. - 50
Chicago Reader
More witty than laugh-out-loud funny. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Begins as a refreshingly subversive departure from the Hollywood studios' cookie-cutter romances, but the thin script can't sustain that initial charge, and it soon flattens out, like a punctured comic balloon.
