Take my wife, please!: "Your Friends and Neighbors"

Just in case you're feeling really good about your relationship, here's a nice way to spend 90 minutes or so. Let's see ... we'll take the guy who gave us "In the Company of Men" -- a brutal tale of two guys psychologically abusing a deaf woman -- and apply his idea of fun to couples! Who's with me?

I'd seen this movie a few times, but the missus spied it on IFC and ordered me to TiVo it. Of course, 20 minutes in, she's asleep. No matter. She wouldn't have appreciated Jason Patric anyway.

Oh man ... Patric absolutely kills in this one as one of six people who are pretty much messed up when it comes to love, relationships, blah, blah, blah. The cast overall is solid, although Ben Stiller is at his most annoying. Yes, even more than "Dodgeball." But his lesser half, Catherine Keener, plays her typical bitch role to perfection, pretty much emasculating him at every turn.

As for the others, Aaron Eckhart is OK but perhaps most notable for looking a lot worse than in "Company." Nastassssssssssssja Kinski is a saucy lesbian, and Amy Brenneman -- star of my wife's favorite show, "Judging Amy" -- is a cute but terribly insecure and unhappy wife.

That brings us back to Patric, who is a true ass ... and brilliant at it. If you thought he was good in "Solarbabies," look out. He pretty much has no soul as he looks out for him and only him in pretty much everything. In fact, this movie is worth a look just for the showdown between him and Keener, sort of a irresistible force vs. immovable object kind of thing. That is, except Keener has a glimmer of a heart, while Patric is all business. If only he had been this badass in "Speed 2," that cruise ship never would have even left port ...