Afternoon Delight

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Rachel, a bored housewife and mother, is your typical upper class suburban woman. She has a beautiful house, a child, is involved with many different activities...but is bored. Rachel and her husband have not slept together in 6 months and of course she speaks to a therapist about it, who is always comparing her perfect lesbian relationship to hers. So they decide to go to a strip club one night and there she meets McKenna, a young girl, who she feels she needs to help. Rachel soon befriends and takes McKenna in. But over that course of time begins to discover new things about McKenna and herself. Of course as in every film, something bad happens and Rachel decides to no longer help McKenna. I've read bad reviews and some okay reviews. But in my opinion, more films like this one need to be made more often. You see the same stories play out all the time in mainstream movies and its indie films like this that give hope to cinema. Unfortunately films like these don't get seen as much. This film basically teaches you to appreciate the things in life that you already have, be grateful. Because it could be worse. The lead role of Rachel was just amazing, forgive me for not remembering the name as I write this. I've seen her mostly in comedic films, but this definitely showed her range as an actress. And Juno Temple, I love her. She was spectacular as always. She never seems to disappoint in anything she does. If your a big film buff like I am and enjoy simple yet superb story telling than I recommend for you to give this a watch.Especially if your a woman.

The entire 90 minute run of this film came down to the last 30 seconds...a bored middle class housewife discovers the meaning of life...she finally gets an *. That about sizes up Afternoon Delight. This is not a comedy, but a doemstic drama. However,I take odds with some other reviews here. The acting was fine and the direction was okay. As almost always in sub par films it was the script that sucked.It's a shame the stalwart best friend Kathyrn Hahn got a starring role in this feeble attempt at serious drama. The story is boring for two main reasons: It's been told several time before and its a repetition of the same almost real-time domestic life events for much of the film, from parties to card games and dull dialog. The only life in the film is the card game scene and the only actor worth watching, from a male viewpoint, the the cute and lovely Juno Temple. But,even she isn't given much to work with and her story isn't developed. The corker, is Jane Lynch as lesbian shrink who breaks down crying to her patient, Hahn, about her lover leaving her during Hahn's session time. That had to be a cinema first.

Jill Soloway's 'Afternoon Delight', won the directing award at the 2013 Sundance Festival. The critics weren't as kind: on Metacritic, there were 4 negative reviews, 10 mixed and only 7 positive. The film is really a dramedy, but more comedy than serious drama. Kathryn Hahn plays 'Rachel', a bored housewife in suburbia who is no longer having sex with her yuppie husband, Jeff. Rachel is presented as a ditsy do-gooder who decides to drag her husband along to a strip-club in the hopes that this might spice up their sex life. There, Rachel gets a lap dance from the *, McKenna, and later seeks her out on the streets, where she offers to put her up at her home, if, in exchange, McKenna works part-time, as a nanny to her young son. Soon Rachel learns that McKenna is more than a *— she's a high end prostitute. This is the premise of the film and it strains one's credulity that Rachel would actually even entertain the notion of putting up a prostitute in her house, a person who could end up harming her child. But Soloway is playing for laughs here—Rachel is a caricature of a do-gooder and Jeff is a passive schlub (the part of Jeff is particularly underdeveloped—he's someone we really never get to know at all). Soloway gets serious in the second half of the film, contrasting McKenna's lurid lifestyle with Rachel and Jeff's need to restore the sanctity of their marriage. At one point, Rachel freely accompanies McKenna to see one of her long-term clients—and soon realizes it was a big mistake to come along, as she ends up sitting in the bedroom, watching the prostitute and her trick, make love. In real life, McKenna may have ended up creating a lot more problems for the men she encounters, but here, the wily prostitute gets Jeff and his friends drunk at a poker game, and pulls one of the men into a room and has sex with him. There's some damage when the man's wife finds him with McKenna and makes it clear that their marriage is over. McKenna almost succeeds in also ruining Jeff and Rachel's marriage, after he finally tells Rachel what a bad idea it was to let her stay with them (one wonders why Jeff didn't put his foot down from the get-go). Sure enough, Rachel realizes the error of her ways, begs forgiveness from her husband and their relationship is restored (as illustrated by the passionate lovemaking they engage in, at film's end). While the overall story makes little sense, 'Afternoon Delight' has a few scenes here and there that will keep your interest. Particularly good is the interchange between Rachel and her lesbian therapist (in the end, Rachel must console the therapist, who realizes that she had taken her own relationship, for granted). There is also some frank sex talk throughout the film between the housewives, which at least gives the film a modicum of verisimilitude. Often 'Afternoon Delight', has a sitcomish flavor. Despite this, the moral of the story is well-intentioned: better to work at your marriage, instead of throwing it away for fleeting passions.

Really a fine film, takes middle America to the place they all want to go and but don't talk about. Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor & Jessica St. Clair are these characters. Great watch after all the crap that has been out lately. Was really refreshing to see something made about people and their interactions be the story vs the story glosses past the interactions. The director & producers of this should be proud for turning out an honest, heart felt, well made product. Kathryn & Juno play off each other perfectly both able to transmit to the audience what they are feeling and thinking. Both of the super sexy in their own distinct way. Juno has this look that just melts anyone. See this flick, well worth the price of admission, will definitely make you ponder your own existence.

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'AFTERNOON DELIGHT': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Indie comedy film about a stay-at-home mom, going through a midlife crisis, who invites a */hooker to come stay in her family's home (in order to try and 'help her'). It was written and directed by Jill Saloway; a TV writer and producer (for popular shows like 'SIX FEET UNDER' and 'UNITED STATES OF TARA') making her feature film writing and directorial debut. It stars Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Jane Lynch. The movie is a good character study that's full of hilarious, yet mostly realistic, dialogue. It also gives Hahn a great opportunity to show off her dramatic lead acting abilities. I really enjoyed this movie! Hahn stars as Rachel, a mother (to a five-year-old son) who's unhappy with her current employment situation and bored with her marriage and lack of sex life. She sees a shrink, Lenore (Lynch), about her problems but the psychiatrist is always telling her about her own relationship (with another woman). One day Rachel talks her workaholic husband, Jeff (Radnor), into going to a strip club with her and her friends. She meets a young * named McKenna (Temple), when her friend buys her a lap dance, and is fascinated by her. Rachel then begins stalking McKenna, with the intent of helping her, and invites her to come stay at her house (when she ends up homeless on the street, temporarily). She then learns McKenna is also a hooker and experiences a sexual awakening through her friendship with her (while McKenna acts as a nanny to her child). The film is pretty sexually explicit and raunchy (to a disturbing level at times) but I think that's the intention of the filmmakers. It's supposed to make the viewer feel awkward and uncomfortable and really question things. Temple is cute and perfectly cast, Lynch is hilarious and Radnor makes a good love interest for Hahn but it's Hahn that really makes the movie work (Hahn and Saloway that is). Saloway's script is brilliant and her directing is perfectly fitting for the material. It's very dramatic and real (when it needs to be) and also hilarious and offbeat (in natural ways) as well. The comedy is never too exaggerated (except for Lynch's character) and that's what I like about it. It's another in the popular trend of hip dialogue driven character studies (like 'DRINKING BUDDIES', from earlier this year). The dialogue often seems so real that I assume it must have been mostly improvised (but I'm not sure how much of it actually was). Like 'DRINKING BUDDIES' it made Quentin Tarantino's top 10 list (from earlier last year) and I think it's one of the better movies of 2013 as well! Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTUUB4nMD6M

I'm shocked that none of these reviews even for a moment consider how degrading the film is to McKenna and sex workers in general. Is everyone so basic that they think the ridiculous "Sex worker?" "Sex worker?!" "Sex worker?!" campy echo from Rachael's friends isn't utterly banal? What stuffed-up privileged suburban lives do viewers live that they have zero empathy for working girls and the inane social prejudice against them. Are we supposed to like Rachael? Someone who's friends are such tedious, judgmental, normie biddies that they are horrified by her efforts to help Rachael integrate into a healthy job opportunity? The whole execution of this premise is ridiculously condescending. It could have been a good story, but it's just another example of privileged people using those less advantaged than themselves to fix their own broken lives then flushing them like toilet paper. Revolting.

. . . and confirmation that female sex workers are people just like everyone else. Since the days of KING OF KINGS and KLUTE, Hollywood has toed the party line. Strippers, go-go girls, hookers, exotic dancers, prostitutes, belly dancers, whores, street walkers, call girls, burlesque artists, Velvet Touchers, fan dancers, Hootchie Cootchie gals, taxi dancers, and any other females who entered the world of men must have something wrong with them. They had to be "scared straight" (as was the case with Mary the Magdalen in KING OF KINGS (silent version from the 1920s, in which Mary's hard work had earned her a three-zebra chariot complete with a hunky driver prior to her meeting with Jesus) or live out sad (and usually short) existences (as with Jane Fonda in Klute). AFTERNOON DELIGHT, written and directed by a woman (Jill Soloway) breaks from the mold in a wonderfully unpredictable and entertaining fashion. I do not want to say anything else more specific about AFTERNOON DELIGHT--get your hands on this flick tonight, and experience the wonder for yourself.

A charming, touching indie dramedy. I watched it mainly because I really like comedian Kathryn Hahn. I've loved her presence as a character actress since she popped up in Step Brothers a few years back, and she's stolen scenes in movies such as Wanderlust and TV shows such as Parks & Recreation since then. I'd heard it was a bad film, but I thought it was pretty good. Hahn stars as a wife and mother. Her marriage (to Josh Radnor) isn't bad, necessarily, but their sex life has kind of died. One night, on a whim, she decides to have a couples date with her best friend at a strip club (her friend swears that it gets her husband's motor running). There she meets a young * played by Juno Temple, and she becomes a little obsessed with the girl afterward. Not sexually, exactly, though there may be an element of that. It's kind of a motherly attention, mixed with a deep curiosity regarding the girl's highly sexual lifestyle. When she finds the girl outside of work, she's basically homeless, so Hahn takes her home, hoping to maybe glean some of her secrets. There isn't much of a plot. It's mostly just a film about people. It really gives Hahn, who is in general a supporting player, a chance to shine, and, man, does she ever. This is a fantastic performance. Temple is quite good, too. The men in the picture are a little underdeveloped. If Radnor had been more of a character, the film might have been great. As it is, it's pretty good.