– every once and while a movie comes along that’s so completely fabulous, without being on anybody’s radar or even in a trailer at the local cinema. This is that movie. Three desperate housewives sit on a park bench watching the cool calculated fourth wife, Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet) who one day joins them. All women’s lives revolve around playdates, swimming pools and picnic – their toddlers – their centers of the universe. But it’s not quite that simple when the “Prom King” Brad (Patrick Wilson) joins them as the stay-at-home dad on the next bench over. He’s married to a documentary filmmaker (Jennifer Connelly) who’s just too busy to find time for romance or home-life. I know what you’re thinking. This sounds very soap opera-nonsense, but it’s not. The movie weaves with the intensity of last year’s “Crash” as lives intersect with a careful and comical narration that plays over these characters like a naughty subconscious. And that’s the point. The movie focuses is on human nature, human impulse and human error as some people refuse to be dictated by habit and refuse to ever just settle. Four tiaras
