All Stressed Up, No Place to Go

Two films put traveling couples in strange and tantalizing fixes

Feeling a little pressed these days? Bills piling up, recession getting you down? Then you may find it perversely consoling to reflect on the desperate straits of Jake and Tina (John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell) in The Object of Beauty.

American Express has just turned his Gold Card into dross, their posh London hotel is pressing them to settle a steadily mounting bill, and the future of his cocoa futures is dim indeed; the beans are rotting on the docks somewhere in South America, the result of a highly inconvenient strike.

Their only resource is a small Henry Moore sculpture, the...

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