Starting with the film's title, writer/director Julie Davis takes on the
supposed conflicts of today's single gal: madonna versus whore, romance versus
sex, balding Jewish mensch versus dashing British cad. Yes, it's Ally
McBeal meets Woody Allen as Katie (Marla Schaffel), a 25-year-old virgin,
diddles over the fate of her hymen. Smug and self-absorbed, she interrupts her
self-pitying whining only to spew male-bashing bile with her salacious pal
Janet (Meredith Scott Lynn). It's a bitter, cliché-infested look at the
folly of attraction and the "I'm Venus, you're Mars" school of gender typing.
It's also downright distasteful: in one scene, Katie likens her dismal dating
life to the Holocaust.
Although Davis is right to question the double standards surrounding women's
sexuality, this ground was covered with more wit and insight by director Kevin
Smith -- a man no less! -- in last year's Chasing Amy. Indeed, at one
point, Katie and Janet accuse each other of hobbling feminism's advance. A more
likely culprit? Self-loathing trash like this.
--Alicia Potter
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