Why Would This Person Go into Show Business?

I probably need to apologize to anyone who attended the 2 o'clock matinee of Love and Other Strangers at the Cinemark Showcase in Paducah today. I know they heard me groaning during about a third of this movie. But every time one of the supporting characters came on screen I fumed.

The movie stars the beautiful Jake Gyllenhaal and the almost as lovely Anne Hathaway. Jake must have had  a rider in his contract that stipulated that they find the most unattractive person they could find to play his brother.

I have never understood why men who are unkempt, unattractive and morbidly obese are automatically assumed to be funny. Josh Rad plays Jake's brother in the film and the character has not one interesting or redeeming character trait. The character was just one obnoxious cliche after another. No wonder he appeared only briefly in the previews.

At one point in the movie his pimply fat ass was revealed when he was bedding a beautiful woman.

You never see unattractive women end up with gorgeous men onscreen but somehow these unkempt slobs always end up bedding a beautiful costar. What a double standard!

I enjoyed most of the movie when he was offscreen but not even seeing Jake Gyllenhaal totally nude from the rear and the front except for his carefully placed hands can erase the sight of this unkempt, unshaven, mop-haired slob from my memory.