trust the man be a director and a scriptwriter ( bart freundlich ) look for a reason to justify this shallow and ill conceive and and ultimately boring movie . supposedly we be to examine role reversal in modern marriage and the rise of the feminist to the head of the household . this be about stay at home dad and successful working mom and vary physical and psychological need and failure to commit guy and and approach the end of fertility zone woman and each of the four character in the film try to make u care about their plight but just can not get past the clumsy script . the cast be as fine a could be assemble to try to make this story matter represent julianne moore with david duchovny and maggie gyllenhaal with billy crudup and and such extra a garry shandling and sarah knowlton and dagmara dominczyk and justin bartha . the four lead be always a pleasure to watch and even in a poor film and but put naive line in their mouth and we just cringe . the end be chicken soup without the healing factor . in the end this be a film to watch only for the lead represent maybe turn off the sound . grady harp .