Yep, another movie post

This batch is better than the last one, but still nothing that wowed me.

The Business of Strangers - Julie (Stockard Channing), a workaholic corporate executive, befriends Paula (Julia Stiles), the young technical assistant she just fired, when they end up at the same hotel for their business trip. There's a definite edge of competition in their relationship, but it's mostly friendly, with a little UST - until things take a dark turn. Julie gets more than she bargained for when they encounter a young man whom Paula claims once raped her best friend, and the two of them decide to get revenge in a gender-reversed take on In the Company of Men. It's a very unsettling story, and I'm not really sure if I liked it, but both actresses turn in fascinating performances.

Crossroads - As a lapsed Catholic, I was intrigued by this story of a Jesuit seminarian struggling with his calling to be a priest. His decision only gets more complicated when he goes to work at a soup kitchen and falls for Jill (Amy Acker), the winsome humanitarian who volunteers there. Although the characters' religion is a major part of who they are, the movie is surprisingly free of preaching or propaganda. It's somewhat predictable and the storytelling is a little clumsy, but it's kinda cute.

Then She Found Me - Helen Hunt plays a schoolteacher in the midst of a midlife crisis. In the space of a few days, her husband (Matthew Broderick) leaves her, her adoptive mother passes away, her biological mother (Bette Midler) comes back into her life, and she starts dating the father (Colin Firth) of one of her students, all while she is desperate to have a baby and is worried it's too late. It wasn't bad, per se, but the story is somewhat weak, and all the big name actors are very stereotypically themselves (Helen Hunt is very neurotic, Bette Midler is very brash, Matthew Broderick is very immature, and Colin Firth is very... British).