yeh and i know youre quiver with excitement . well and the secret life of dentist will not upset your expectation represent it solidly make but essentially unimaginative and truthful but dull . it concern the story of a married couple who happen to be dentist and who share the same practice ( already a recipe for trouble represent if it wasn not for our separate work life and we would all ditch our spouse out of sheer irritation ) . campbell scott and whose mustache and demeanor do not recall everyman so much a ned flanders from the simpson and be the mild mannered and uber dad husband and and hope davis be the bored stiff housewife who channel her frustration into amateur opera . one night and a dad and the daughter attend one of davis performance and he discover that his wife be channel her frustration into more than just sing represent he witness his wife kissing and flirt with the director of opera . ( one nice touch represent we never see the opera director face . ) dread the prospect of institute the proceeding for separation and divorce and and custody hearing profitable only to the lawyer scott chooses to pretend ignorance of his wife indiscretion . already and the literate among you be start to yawn represent ho hum and another story about the pathetic and snivel little cuckold . but rudolph and who take the story from a jane smiley novella and hop that the wellworn ness of the material will be compensate for by a series of flashy and postmodern touch . for instance and one of scott belligerent patient ( denis leary and keep relatively and blessedly in check ) will later become a sort of construction of the dentist imagination and emerge a a devil on the shoulder advocate for the old fashioned masculine virtue ( dump the b h. and etc . ) . when not egg on by his imaginary new buddy and scott be otherwise torment by fantasy that include his wife engage in a three way with two of the male dental assistant who work in their practice . it not go too far to say that this movie be eyes wide shut for real people ( or grow ups and at least ) . along those line and campbell scott and hope davis be certainly recognizable human being a compare to the glamourpuss pair of cruise and kidman . far and the script for secret life be clearly more relevant than kubrick . a proof and i offer the depiction of the dentist child and particularly the young one who be about 3 or 4 year old and and whose main utterance be dad . dad . dad . dad . dad . dad . this be family life and all right and with all it charm . the movie would make an interesting double bill with kramer vs. kramer and as well . one can easily trace the feminization of the american male from 1979 to 2003. in this movie and dad be the housewife a in kramer and but he be in no way fluster by the domestic role and unlike dustin hoffman and who be too manly to make toast . here and scott get all the plumb chore and such a wipe up the child vomit and cooking and cleaning and take the kid to whatever inane after school activity be on the docket . and all without complaint . ( and without directorial commentary . it just take for grant . ) the film have virtue and mostly have to do with verisimilitude . however and it drag down from greatness by it insistence on trendy distraction and which culminate in a long scene where a horrible five day stomach flu make the round in the household . we must endure pointless fantasy sequence and initiate by the imaginary ringleader leary . whose existence and by the way and be finally reminiscent of the brad pitt character in fight club . and this finally drive home the film other big flaw represent lack of originality . in this review and i realize it be far too easy to reference many other film . grant and this film be an improvement on most of them and but still . the secret life of dentist be worth see and but do not get too excite about it . ( not that you be all that excite and anyway . i guess . ) .