A romantic comedy with a twist is what Paramount Home Media
has at the ready on Jan. 5 with the delivery of both DVD and Blu-ray editions
of writer/director Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People.
The ARR for this indie pick up is 116 days and ticket sales
for the film’s limited theatrical break came to $360,579.
About a dozen years ago — as the film opens — college
students Jake (Jason Sudeikis) and Lainey (Alison Brie — perhaps best known as
Annie on the Community sitcom) have an “accidental” one-night stand. They were actually looking for other
hook-ups, but settled for what was available.
That would be the end of it, but then we wouldn’t have much
of a movie about these two. And Sleeping
with Other People is not what you think.
Skip ahead to present day New York City and the lonely
college guy — Jake — is now a first class womanizer, he’ll sleep with anyone,
including friends of friends and this lifestyle has become a genuine
addiction. He needs help.
Lainey, now also in the city, was desperately in love with a
fellow college student way back then when she settled for an evening with
Jake. That hasn’t changed. His name is Matthew (Adam Scott), he’s
married and is a successful gynecologist and Lainey throws herself at him at
every opportunity — it’s unrequited love to the tenth degree. And when he is busy or blows her, she’ll
takes whatever is available because … she needs help.
These two sick love hounds end up reunited at a support
group for — are you ready for this? — sex addicts. It’s a terrific set up that filmmaker Leslye
Headland has concocted, it’s like having two alcoholics meet at a bar and help
each other NOT to drink.
Which is precisely what the pair sets out to do, keep each
other out of trouble by being a friend and an all-knowing one member support
group(ie)!!! Sleeping with Other People
is, like we said, an interesting “twist” with the romantic comedy stable of
movies — neither Jake or Lainey are particularly likeable (especially Jake who
comes across as creepy at times) and so it takes time for us to warm to them;
to root for them to get beyond the forest and see the trees (metaphorically
speaking).
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