Two Lovers (2009)

Joaquin Phoenix plays a depressed man-child working at the dry cleaners his dad owns. With a broken engagement and two suicide attempts in his near past, I understand why his parents are treating him with kid gloves, but what I didn't get was why on earth the building's hot girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the down-to-earth daughter of his parents' friends, both gorgeous, seem to think he's worthwhile as a paramour.

I seriously didn't understand what Phoenix was doing here. He seemed to be dreary, slow-witted, and suffering from a speech impediment. When you consider that he's also calling his parents' cluttered apartment "home" -- I mean, how were women even bothering to speak to him?

A slog from start to finish -- I certainly hope he's joking about quitting the movie biz as this is a tragedy of a swan song.

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