Doesn't amount to much especially with its wrongheaded ending.

Two strangers who work for the same company, one as the CEO and the other as what would now be an IT person (but then was an AV technician), meet in a bar after the AV woman blows a deal for the CEO by arriving 45 minutes late. They decide to hang out together for no good reason and cause havoc in the life of a headhunter the CEO appears to know more than casually. This drama is boring. Color by numbers stuff in 온라인카지노추천 movie production living color. Nothing new or interesting presented.

Stiles and Channing were good in this and they were also the best part of this movie.

The Business of Strangers is about the world of those women jockeying their lives in the phallocentric spheres of our society. It's a great movie done with very little. The good. Simple yet very elegant mood and settings. Solid editing. Interesting, realistic, and straight forward story. Nicely put together characters who evolve before our eyes. The actors. In this production, we can see Julia Stiles starting to spread her wings and some of her potential. However, as much as I love her, Stockard Channing is the real star here. She portrays the power business woman, her struggle and her changes of mood, with incredible clarity. The bad. The emptiness of ordinary lives usually filled with glitz and details by Hollywood can be slightly disorienting here. I think it's perfect, but not for everyone. The ugly. Nothing. The result. Very low key character driven film. Don't expect a dazzling display, turn on your brain, and you won't be disappointed.

middle to the end it perks up a bit

Nothing is what it seems, not even in this movie which tries to be interesting..but fails.

Business of Strangers is yet another smart, if not strange, indie drama from IFC. The dynamic between the two lead actresses, Julia Stiles and Stockard Channing, is engrossing, and helps make the film a powerful and effective character study. The script is strong, and features a number of very interesting dialogue exchanges. I would have liked the running time to be a bit longer, and perhaps give so more insight into Julia Stiles' character. As such, the ending didn't quite work for me. The motivations and supposed apparent vulnerabilities she had earlier in the film seem undermined by an ending that suggests a much different, probably sociopathic, person. So in that respect, the film can be thought of as a bit uneven. Still, predominately effective and always interesting. 3.5/5 stars

Sparse, terse, perverse.

This is a disappointingly dull film, enlivened only by the performances of the two leading actors, Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles, which are out of keeping with the film as a whole. Channing plays a high-flying business executive whose life is her work but who is insecure and thinks she faces the sack. Stiles is her assistant. Initially, they fall out. But, while stranded at an airport hotel, they patch up their differences and form an alliance against a smarmy male headhunter whom they both know. The problem with the film is that, despite the good leading performances (particularly Channing's), it simply fails to grab one's attention. It has the feel of a low-budget made for 온라인카지노추천 film or one that is destined for an immediate DVD release. While not a terrible film, it lacks that certain something. I simply was not interested in what happened next and my attention wandered away from the film all too frequently during its 85 minutes. Unmemorable. 5/10.

Um, Julia Stiles is in it.

Outstanding (but discreet) performances, and a good examination of the inhuman nature of capitalist (anti-)social and (bi)sexual relations, and ultimately pleasantly nihilistic (and so still bound by capitalism). It may well be a case of feminism vs. post-feminism, feminism converted to post-feminism.

Funny and unpredictable.

I managed to watch 24 minutes, but I was almost bored to death, so I decided to just watch small glimpses of the movie. It seemed really weird, pointless and boring.

Great acting by the leads, especially Stockard Channing. It starts out a bit slow but in doing so the characters become nicely developed. Effective character interaction. Suspenseful and it always held my interest. A few good twists are a plus.

68/100. Great acting by the leads, especially Stockard Channing. It starts out a bit slow but in doing so the characters become nicely developed. Effective character interaction. Suspenseful and it always held my interest. A few good twists are a plus.

What was the point of it all???

Good...It had a slight lesbian air to it. Too bad they didn't go further with that..."

Bizarre, yet interesting. I recommend this to those who like psychological thrillers, it'll keep ya guessing...

I'm such a masochist when it comes to movies. I saw this at the video store and thought it would be a Lifetime movie. I was surprised and saddened that it wasn't. Also, I'm not sure it had a plot, just a series of strange events that were strung together.

*** (out of four) Stockard Channing gives a great performance and Julia Stiles somehow manages not to embarass herself. Stiles plays Stockard Channing's assistant. During an out of town meeting the assistant is fired,but when Channing is promoted, they meet up in the hotel bar and try to make amends. It turns mean is clearly meant to be a female version of "In the Company of Men."