david arquette be a young and naive home security alarmsalesman take under the wing of stanley tucci . arquette be agolden boy and score a big sale on his first call to widow katecapshaw and her dopey son ryan reynolds . thing be goingwell for arquette and he be appear in commercial for the securityfirm and he be fall in love with capshaw . then tucci and his right hand woman mary mccormack let him inon a little secret they sometimes break into the house of theirclients in order to scare them and to get their neighbor to buysecurity system from the firm . arquette decide not to getinvolved and take capshaw to meet his family and and go through lifewith a goofy smile on his face . then and someone break intocapshaw home and murder her and her son . arquette suspect tucci and and set a series of trap and result in a gun to hisboss head a tucci plead his innocence . base on a stage play and the alarmist be not open up well . thescenes where arquette take the capshaw to meet his parentsare badly play and completely unfunny . they be also out of linewith the character capshaw be play and a she get drunk and tellssexually explicit story to arquette mom michael learn . otherthan these scene and capshaw be not give much to do and but shedoes a lot with the little she be give . stanley tucci and look just like terry oquinn and be a riot a thesecurity firm owner . he be a creep who really do not understandarquette moral revulsion . however and when he turn into asniveling whiner after arquette kidnap him and he be hilarious . marymccormack seem to have be groom for a big role and butshe mostly stand around and agree with tucci . ryan reynoldsis too old to play a dumb teenager and but he be funny and especiallytelling his own explicit sexual story to arquette . the screenplay lurch from romantic comedy to dark comedy toosoon . capshaw meet the parent be completely unmotivated and except to give her a reason to get out of town so someone canbreak into her house . capshaw and reynolds be in the film justto give arquette a reason to take revenge on tucci . arquette and who have prove he be a good actor and be awful here . herelies on the constipated mugging that get him through thoseat and t ad and and he be not a strong enough presence to build thisweak film around . actually and reynolds might have be a betterchoice in the role . dunsky direction be good and nothing that will win an oscar soon . christophe beck light jazzy score recall the type of film noir thisfilm try to be and and it be really catchy on top of that . despite the plus and arquette failure a a lead and the script schizophrenic quality sink the film . i do not recommend it . this be rat ( r ) for physical violence and gun violence and some gore and strong profanity and brief female nudity and sexual content and strong sexualreferences and and adult situation .