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I Think I Love My Wife

It'd take a miracle

By CHRIS WANGLER | March 15, 2007

0.5 Stars

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Chris Rock as a sensitive Manhattan investment banker with two kids? Who wears glasses and makes Japanese businessmen rich? It’d take a miracle to make this material funny, and I’m afraid “writer/director” Chris Rock, who was never much of an actor, ain’t no Jesus. Stuck in a sexless marriage and surrounded by lame white people at work, Richard Cooper (Rock) seems like easy pickings for an aggressive, chain-smokin’ hottie (Kerry Washington) from his past. The outcome is never in doubt (see the title!) as Rock uses every lame cliché in the adulterous-husband genre, as well as some painfully unnecessary voiceover and a scene in which our hero has to buy condoms at a drugstore from a recalcitrant clerk. The only laughs come from jokes so crass that they seem woefully out of place in such an embarrassingly predictable feel-good movie, one based, yes, on Eric Rohmer’s L’amour l’après-midi|Chloé in the Afternoon.

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