VIDEO: Watch the trailer for Kettle of Fish
Claudia Myers, who wrote and directed Kettle of Fish, seems to be lost in the romantic comedies of the late ’80s/early ’90s, those halcyon days when Billy Crystal and Hugh Grant could charm their way through one comfortably urban environment after another. But whereas films like When Harry Met Sallyand Four Weddings and a Funeral always had a musical number or faked orgasm to excuse their otherwise cloying scripts, Kettle of Fish is unmemorable and frequently unlikable. As Mel, Matthew Modine is an implausible playboy who decides it’s time to confront some intimacy issues. Enter Gina Gershon as Ginger, a neurotic biologist with a bad English accent, and Christy Scott Cashman as Diana, an attractive if wildly insecure trophy wife. Modine pursues one, then the other — but wait! then they both pursue him! — you get the idea. Even New York City looks dull here.
