Synopsis
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
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Cast
- Marcia Gay HardenMadelyn
- Leonor WatlingLucy
- Aidan QuinnDerek
- Joseph KellPaul
- Michael TherriaultRainer (Director)
- Gary PiquerKeith
- Bethany JillardCordelia
- Elizabeth WhitmereGoneril
- Claire BrosseauRegan
- Patrick GarrowEdmund
Recommendations
- 60
Village Voice
If I Were You is a screwball comedy for Canadians—not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get. - 50
Slant Magazine
A wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots. - 50
New York Post
If I Were You has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging. She had the exact same problem with her last movie, “A Previous Engagement.’’ - 40
Time Out
It’s a complex geometry that’s mined for some interesting perspectives on romantic fulfillment, but the film’s comic sense (exemplified by a drunken Harden acting inappropriately) is slack and its dramatic conclusion unfulfilling. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
A modern cinematic equivalent of the sort of tired sex farces that used to populate Broadway with regularity, If I Were You simultaneously exploits and squanders the talents of its star, Marcia Gay Harden. - 25
Observer
Mostly it just redefines the word “asinine.” Marcia Gay Harden never makes a wrong move, but this movie is so futile, one goes away convinced that the moves she makes are hardly worth making. - 20
New York Daily News
Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful. - 20
The New York Times
A comedy that is so scatterbrained and long-winded that much of it feels invented on the spot. (It’s also a half-hour too long.)
