This second adaptation of David Mamet’s 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago – sanded down in 1986 as About Last Night … – moves the action to Los Angeles and reinstates the sexual perversity with gleeful abandon for a talk-heavy, hard-R comedy about hooking up and settling down.
The film begins with the postmortem on a one-night stand, as chipper horndog Bernie (Hart) delivers the blow-by-blow to his best friend Danny (Ealy). Bernie’s version is crosscut with his hookup partner Joan’s (Hall) own account, as told to her roommate Debbie (Bryant). There are discrepancies, but also ding-ding-ding, cross-the-aisle moments of concurrence, in a clever establishment of what will be a continuing theme: how rare it is for two lovers to be on the same page.
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