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The Dying Gaul A unique,,one of a kind movie! Both Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best films of the year! Maybe that's what makes the movie so good.The great cast includes Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard, Ryan Miller (IV), Faith Jefferies. The movie moves on like a dream and end leaving you wanting for more.
If you love watching Patricia Clarkson or Campbell Scott, you are deffinetly going to want to watch The Dying Gaul.
The Dying Gaul begins as a truly insidious tale of temptation: A gay screenwriter named Robert (Peter Sarsgaard, Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass) is wooed by Jeffrey (Campbell Scott, The Spanish Prisoner, Roger Dodger), a smooth studio executive who offers Robert a million dollars to turn the gay couple in his screenplay into a heterosexual one. Jeffrey also woos Robert into bed, despite being married to Elaine (Patricia Clarkson, High Art, The Station Agent). When Elaine starts learning Robert's secrets, the movie slowly and clumsily slides into an unconvincing thriller. The Dying Gaul has a variety of problems--there may be a way to make internet chat visually compelling, but this movie hasn't found it--but the big problem is that writer/director Craig Lucas doesn't recognize that an audience will swallow large implausibilities (like an alien invasion), but little improbabilities will make them stop and refuse to go forward. It's unfortunate that Lucas was so set on making this a thriller; some scenes in The Dying Gaul are startling and almost uncomfortably honest (Scott and Clarkson are excellent and Sarsgaard is outstanding), but they get swept aside by the brittle and uncompelling plot mechanics. --Bret Fetzer