Ed Burns (USA)
The fourth film from indie American director Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen) gets down and dirty with New Yorkers sorting out their sexual unhappiness in a comedy that has a strong ring of Woody Allen circa Husbands and Wives, but without the bitterness. Burns plays a successful young television producer who has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend and is trying to decide between a pretty young schoolteacher (Rosario Dawson) and a married real estate agent (Heather Graham, doing a weird Mia Farrow impression). Meanwhile, the teacher's former husband, a doorman, is chasing the student waitress at the local coffee shop while she tries to break off her debasing relationship with the real-estate agent's dentist husband (Stanley Tucci in typically fine form). In this erotic rondelay, there is much discussion of oral sex and why New Yorkers are so hung up on their sex lives. Sometimes funny, though not especially insightful, it's an amiable bit of fluff. - L.L.

(Fri., Sept 7, 6 p.m., Varsity; Sun, Sept. 9, 11:30 a.m., Cumberland)