The Night We Never Met (1993)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107685/

The Night We Never Met (1993)

(http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4066156032/tt0107685)

Release Date: 30 April 1993 (USA)

Plot keywords: Dominatrix, Roommate, Adultery, Apartment, Mistaken Identity, New York City, Time Share, Independent Film;

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Director: Warren Leight

Plot summary: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle. Written by Murray Chapman

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SEX/NUDITY 5 - ... Sex, infidelity and promiscuity are treated very casually.
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DISCUSSION TOPICS - Promiscuity, infidelity, sexism.

MESSAGE - Eventually, true love will triumph.

http://reviews.filmintuition.com/2007/05/night-we-never-met.html
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two of the roommates (who’ve never met) begin to fall in love with like-minded notes and kind gestures in their shared home. Brain McVeigh (Kevin Anderson), a successful businessman with a Frat Boy Peter Pan complex gets engaged to fellow WASP Justine Bateman but isn’t fully ready to leave his beloved bachelor pad behind and hires someone to rent it out to two tenants.

The first one to sign up for the odd arrangement is Sam Lester (Matthew Broderick), a sensitive man still recovering from a bad breakup with his French, self-obsessed performance artist girlfriend Pastel (a hilarious Jeanne Tripplehorn).

When married dental hygienist Ellen (Annabella Sciorra) decides she wants a quiet haven in the city for painting and reading, she joins the agreement without telling her suburban-minded husband, who has made a recent real estate decision on his own as well, purchasing a home in a planned community off the Long Island Expressway without running it by his wife. While we realize that the soulful Ellen isn’t meant to be with her husband, it takes her awhile and a few cute notes and beautifully touching moments as she begins to correspond with her new roommate whom she mistakes for Brian instead of Sam when the apartment’s schedule isn’t updated to come to the same conclusion.

... The Night We Never Met is one of those refreshing indie romantic comedies ...

Songs from the film

“My Baby Just Cares for Me”
by Nina Simone

“(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher”
by Jackie Wilson

“When I Need You”
by Leo Sayer

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Synopsis: When a newly betrothed stockbroker, a bored housewife, and a lovelorn gourmet cook decide to time-share a Greenwich Village apartment, the stage is set for love, comedy and disaster. Brian McVeigh is a coarse, beer-drinking yuppie who has just moved in with his sophisticated fiancee. But he's reluctant to relinquish the lease on his bachelor pad, the comfortable downtown studio in which he hosts wild rowdy parties for his pals. Instead, Brian shares the apartment with Ellen, a dental hygienist desperate to escape from her provincial husband, and Sam, who's recovering from the emotional wreckage of a recent breakup. Since the trio has never met face to face, they only know one another by their household habits. Inevitably, Ellen confuses Brian for Sam and ends up making the mistake of a lifetime.
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