Staying Fit
Rating: R
Run time: 1 hour 56 minutes
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Stars: Rosemarie DeWitt, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dennis Haysbert, Dean Norris, Adam Sandler, J. K. Simmons, Emma Thompson
Director: Jason Reitman
The Internet makes us many things:
- instantly omniscient
- perpetually in touch
- spontaneously creative
- digitally immortal
So why do so many of us suspect it's also destroying our lives?
That's the notion incisively and at times ingeniously explored by writer-director Jason Reitman in Men, Women & Children. It's one of those movies with a great tangle of characters who are linked in various ways, from the intimate to the vaguely familiar. They all live in a small Texas town, and they are all digitally impaired in a way that has nothing to do with knowing how to download "Angry Birds."
For instance, thanks to the Web, long-married Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt are adept at finding ways to cheat on each other. Their teenage son is so numbed by online porn that he has no idea what a normal sex life looks like. A waiflike cheerleader submits to online peer pressure to virtually starve herself. A well-meaning but clueless mom (Judy Greer) posts provocative shots of her daughter on a website to boost the girl's fledgling acting career — and fails to see the red flags when she starts taking orders for specific poses and costumes from anonymous men.
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