"Looking for Kitty" is a slow, anticlimactic movie about two men, whose life was shattered by the loss of a woman. While the one, a small town baseball coach (David Krumholtz), has decided to ignore reality and keep up his hope against an overwhelming amount of indicators he shouldn't, the other, a New York private investigator (Edward Burns), has basically given up on life as a whole.
They meet when the coach hires the PI to help him find his wife. The search disrupts the PIs self chosen solitude, who is now confronted with the coach's resistance to accept reality. During the time they spend together their perspectives slowly change and in the end both realize that they may not get what they want, but that they don't have to settle for nothing either.
The movie uses New York not only as a background, but also as a metaphor for how your point of view changes your perception of life. For Kitty it's the exiting place to escape to from a dull life, the coach feels (literally) disconnected from his well defined world and for the PI the city represents the more or less hopeless struggle of man against stronger, evil powers (not literally). Over time the characters not only adjust to their lives a little better, but also to the city and its places.
The acting is fine, the pace well adjusted, the cinematography matches the story, the movie will not force its message onto the viewer. It's nice for a calm autumn afternoon, when you are not looking for either action, comedy or drama. My sole criticism is that the PI and coach's change in attitude towards their life isn't that believable. They obviously have been stuck for quite some time and their time together does not lead to any major new revelations that would necessarily trigger such a change. It's a little bit out of the blue when they find a way to better cope with their loss all of a sudden. The script should have developed this more.
They meet when the coach hires the PI to help him find his wife. The search disrupts the PIs self chosen solitude, who is now confronted with the coach's resistance to accept reality. During the time they spend together their perspectives slowly change and in the end both realize that they may not get what they want, but that they don't have to settle for nothing either.
The movie uses New York not only as a background, but also as a metaphor for how your point of view changes your perception of life. For Kitty it's the exiting place to escape to from a dull life, the coach feels (literally) disconnected from his well defined world and for the PI the city represents the more or less hopeless struggle of man against stronger, evil powers (not literally). Over time the characters not only adjust to their lives a little better, but also to the city and its places.
The acting is fine, the pace well adjusted, the cinematography matches the story, the movie will not force its message onto the viewer. It's nice for a calm autumn afternoon, when you are not looking for either action, comedy or drama. My sole criticism is that the PI and coach's change in attitude towards their life isn't that believable. They obviously have been stuck for quite some time and their time together does not lead to any major new revelations that would necessarily trigger such a change. It's a little bit out of the blue when they find a way to better cope with their loss all of a sudden. The script should have developed this more.