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Flannel Pajamas (2006)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Nov 22, 2006

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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B-

Details Limited Release: Nov 15, 2006; Rated: Unrated; Length: 124 Minutes; Genre: Romance; With: Justin Kirk and Julianne Nicholson

SLEEPY TIME GAL Nicholson is one half of the couple at the center of the glib, uninvolving relationship drama Pajamas

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There are moments in Jeff Lipsky's low-budget, high-octane battle of the sexes, when Stuart (Justin Kirk), a reflexively nasty Jewish publicity agent, and Nicole (Julianne Nicholson), the testy, freckle-faced Catholic girl he marries, dredge up a grubby intimacy that most relationship dramas avoid: financial anxieties, clashing timetables for having babies, and so forth. Yet the hero remains such an exhibitionistically cocky, walled-off jerk that Flannel Pajamas' glib conversational ''candor'' yields no mystery. And that's a problem in two hours of talk.

Originally posted Nov 21, 2006 Published in issue #909 Dec 01, 2006 Order article reprints

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