Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones (2003)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Crappy film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The provocatively titled "Love, Sex and Eating the Bones" is a tale about sexual frustration involving a man addicted to porn and a woman with a decidedly more conservative view of making love. The curious twist is that it is the woman who wants to get down-and-dirty in the sack and the man who finds himself unable to rise to the occasion.Michael is an aspiring photographer who works as a security guard at a local parking garage. Jasmine is a successful ad agency executive who has sworn off both men and sex since her last abortive relationship two years ago. The two find themselves falling in love with one another but hit a rocky patch when Michael turns out to be impotent - at least when it comes to having to perform with a flesh-and-blood human being."Love, Sex and Eating the Bones" starts off as a sub-par, utterly conventional romantic comedy, but just when you're about to give up on it, it takes a daring and much appreciated detour into some previously unexplored territory. This is the first film I can remember to feature impotence as a major plot point and the first to acknowledge the detrimental effect that pornography can have on real-world relationships. That the film does so in the context of a romantic comedy in no way diminishes its value and, in fact, makes the topics more palatable and approachable than they might otherwise be. Moreover, the film is blessed with two extremely likable stars as its protagonists, Hill Harper and Marlyne Afflack, who tackle the tricky subject matter with charm and grace. Some may see the humor in the film as vulgar and crude at times, but I tend to think of it as realistic, accurately capturing the ways in which couples talk and deal with one another in the modern world. This turns out to be a better film than one might initially suspect.

i liked this movie a lot.it takes a young man who has been maybe overly steeped in the porn view of sex, and can't get off without it...but is still a real person who loves a real person and is pretty conflicted about this.real person number two is gradually turned right off that person one isn't really making love to _her_...and this is how they work it out.a lovely look at young men and women and some of the obstacles they face in finding real intimacy. but wait! it's pretty funny, too.two thumbs up!

Aside from Ed Robertson's performance this movie had absolutely nothing new to offer. It was a cheap version of African American projects like 'LoveJones' with some American Pie-type humour. There was no real depth to the characters and the script was just weak. If you want formulaic blandness check this film out.You see some folks seem to think that audiences REALLY want to be reminded that men only think about sex, Black men try almost anything to get a woman and ditzy blonde women really want Black men. This film needed a big dose of Dan Savage -why couldn't jasmine orally pleasure hill harper? why is the film so heteronormative? Why did it need to rely on imported African American caricatures (professional Black woman - check; gold digger out for a loaded man - check; 'artsy' Black man who is troubled but has talent to show the world if only he'd be given a break by the SYSTEM - check; hypersexual black females in beauty salon - check; Jamaican caricatures - check)? If Toronto wants to avoid celebrating mediocrity it needs to challenge complacent artists that think they can just roll out American cliches with some Scarborough flava and Haitian tokens.

Truthfully, i was expecting the worse when i attended a screening of this movie last Thursday (Jan 22, 2004 at Canada Square Cinemas in Toronto). But, what i received was a gut-breaking-laugh-fest.I LOVED IT!!This is the way more Canadian films should be...smart, sexy, and funny as hell.I don't want to give too much away, but as the director said, "this is a film for people who like to kiss."Highly, highly, highly recommend.Also, if you are a Barenaked Ladies fan, Ed Robertson is also a great actor. Be sure to check it out!