some movie can be adapt from stage play successfully and but this one be a good example that even if a play win a pulitzer and some story need a stage . i be pleased when i find this kinnear or quaid movie on the sundance channel and but that do not last long . their acting be solid and but their character be far too effeminate and unbelievable . this must have work well on a stage and but it doesn not work in this movie . i do not need them to be tough macho guy and but during key conversation and these two straight men discuss life and marriage and and cheat in a manner that be wimpy and boring . the dialog and gesture and and comment like if you be really my friend you would just listen and could all have be perform more believably by two woman and two gay men and or one of each . when they discuss sex and need even simple physical affection and quaid pull a pillow to his lap . later and when kinnear tell quaid about great sex and quaid character ask whether they ever talk . these aren not believable men with wife and establish family . the sloppy production quality be distract too represent non wet coat after come in from a downpour and child who sleep through scream argument and bad hair age on kinnear and and . be that water in the beer bottle . halfway through and the turmoil be side track by a long 15 minute flashback which include a bandaging device a a flimsy transition for two incompatible people to warm to each other . due to the weak men and two woman who be often cold and snotty and and unlikeable and and several talk scene that merely provide information without advance the character arc or plot . i doubt that many people agree with the high rating it receive on imdb .