A rich modern couple, interested in new age spirituality, explore novel ways of holding onto their crumbling wealth and marriage.
Like Tolkin's previous The Rapture (1991), this is a scathing satire that is played so straight it is not always obvious that it is hilarious. Nothing about these vapid characters is allowed to suggest any possibility of redemption. "How are your morals?" Peter asks a random beautiful woman at a party. And his own? "I just can't seem to find them." And this is the guiding force behind the protagonists decisions, guided by diverse con-artists. The film doesn't quite have the same cumulative dramatic and philosophical force as The Rapture, though it aims in a similar direction. While it believably dissects their emptiness, we don't learn much more about them than that.
Like Tolkin's previous The Rapture (1991), this is a scathing satire that is played so straight it is not always obvious that it is hilarious. Nothing about these vapid characters is allowed to suggest any possibility of redemption. "How are your morals?" Peter asks a random beautiful woman at a party. And his own? "I just can't seem to find them." And this is the guiding force behind the protagonists decisions, guided by diverse con-artists. The film doesn't quite have the same cumulative dramatic and philosophical force as The Rapture, though it aims in a similar direction. While it believably dissects their emptiness, we don't learn much more about them than that.