In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
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🔍 Search on JustWatch →This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.
Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.
For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.
Director: Mike Figgis
— MovieFinder Editorial
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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.
Wesley Snipes
Max Carlyle
Nastassja Kinski
Karen
Kyle MacLachlan
Vernon
Ming-Na Wen
Mimi Carlyle
Robert Downey Jr.
Charlie
Marcus T. Paulk
Charlie Carlyle
Glenn Plummer
George
Amanda Donohoe
Margaux
Zoë Nathenson
Mickey
Thomas Haden Church
Don
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