Review of Jack Goes Boating (2010) by Ross H — 19 Feb 2011
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of our better actors working today. He can play almost any character and has. Here he is directing himself from a play written by Robert Glaudini. Hoffman plays Jack, a extremely introverted, shy, scared man who has a job driving for a limousine service.
His best friend Clyde (John Ortiz in arguably the best performance here) also works there and he and his girlfriend Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega) decide to set Jack up on a blind date. Enter Connie (Amy Ryan, so underrated) who has a few of her own problems with being in other people's company also.
Meanwhile Clyde is teaching Jack how to swim because he wants to go boating in the spring since Connie has said she'd like to. You see some growing compassion between the two as the movie continues while the other couple Clyde and Lucy are drifting apart in so many ways.
There are a couple of scenes between Clyde and Lucy that seem so real in the way that you the viewer know that something close to dreadful is going to happen. It's about one couple who's just starting out in a relationship and another one drifting apart.
I'd have to say I'd watch this more for the performances of the actors than the film itself. They are superb.
This review of Jack Goes Boating (2010) was written by Ross H on 19 Feb 2011.
Jack Goes Boating has generally received mixed reviews.
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