Bumbler Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) learns to swim and cook and gradually gets it together with the likeable Connie. There is much to commend in this movie: rarely are the lives of ordinary, lost, anonymous people on whom middle age is encroaching portrayed on celluloid; there are some original, articulate moments, an underlying positivity and it's too down to earth to get quirky in a bad way.
Yet these somewhat negated by the flare-up between their friends Clyde and Lucy. While not expecting a happily-ever-after, the overall feeling at the end is mixed.
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