XX/XY (2002)
- 2002
- ·R
- ·91 min
When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond.
As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of their friendship, however, they are tested by Sam and Coles' incipient romance and Thea's increasing recklessness, until the relationship dissolves amid a cloud of fear, resentment and mistrust.
Eight years later they reunite.
An animator for a high-profile ad agency, Coles now lives with Claire, his girlfriend of five years.
Thea is happily married to Miles, with whom she owns a flourishing restaurant.
And Sam has just returned to Manhattan after working in London where she recently broke off her engagement.
Yet upon reconnecting, the three are drawn back into the complicated dynamic that defined their relationship from the start and are forced to confront the true meaning of commitment and love.
- Actors
- Kathleen Robertson·Kel O'Neill·Mark Ruffalo·Maya Stange
- Directed by
- Austin Chick
- Genre
- Drama·Romance
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Director
- Austin Chick
Sundance Film Festival 2002
- Dramatic
As I was watching this film, I was wondering if there would be a fundamental difference in the way it was viewed by men and women. It seemed very true to life.
Austin Chick has done wonders with "XX/XY". It's almost as though he is working in solving a mathematical equation.
One of the refreshing things that this script has to offer is the depiction of it's characters without hiding their faults and allowing them to act and speak as real people would. Story starts out in 1993 where a young aspiring filmmaker and animator named Coles (Mark Ruffalo) meets Sam (Maya Strange) while at a party and they engage in a very clumsy menage a trois with Sam's roommate Thea (Kathleen Robertson) but it doesn't go very well.
