Review of Something to Talk About (1995) by Desson Thomson for Washington Post — 04 Apr 2001
Part comedy of manners, and mostly gender warfare, "Something" is designed to get the partisan juices boiling. Screenwriter Callie Khouri, who wrote the marvelous "Thelma & Louise," has a gift for catching the oppression of women in everyday situations and putting a sanguine comic twist on it.
But in her zeal to portray a world full of male scum, she creates a morally mismatched, pandering scenario.
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This review of Something to Talk About (1995) was written by Desson Thomson and published by Washington Post on 04 Apr 2001.
Something to Talk About has generally received mixed reviews.
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