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Director: Chris Rock
Starring: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Steve Buscemi,
The multi-talented Chris Rock co-wrote directed, narrated and starred in this light, slice-of-life comedy. This is pretty lightweight fare for the usual edgy Rock and not as funny as his usual projects, but it’s a pleasant and amusing story and I am a sucker for Ferris Bueller style narration with characters telling their story to the camera as we watch it unfold, but this movie needed some funnier jokes to really work. The characters are not completely convincing and although it starts out with some promise, it gets worse, not better.
Chris Rock is Richard Cooper, a family man investment banker, who is struggling with his undersexed, flat marriage when a tempting old acquaintance, Nikki Tru (played by the smoking hot Kerry Washington) re-enters his life and causes him to challenge his values as he zigzags on what he wants from life. Steve Buscemi, like Rock is cast in an unfamiliar straight role and it feels like both of them are underutilized.
I Think I Love My Wife, which is a re-make of Chloe In The Afternoon, starts out like an updated version of Kevin Bacon’s She’s Having A Baby, but changes its tone several times and this inconsistency hurts the overall effect. There are worse movies, but I try not to see them either.
