SparkMore
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Jay Thompson
'Gross Misconduct' was one of a series of texts released in Australia during the early-to-mid 1990s that explored the supposed victimisation of the Privileged Heterosexual Male in the age of feminism. This creature only needs look at a Pretty Young Thing, and he's accused of sexual harassment, and his life is ruined. Damn those women's libbers! Grrr...As my tone might suggest, I don't buy any of this anti-feminist BS, and correspondingly didn't enjoy this film. 'GM' trivialises the issues of sexual harassment and teacher-student relations. Sexual harassment is here the product of a Confused Young Woman's imagination, and those professional boundaries that teachers are meant to maintain ... well, when the teacher is a charming and handsome family man (and played by Jimmy Smits!), well needn't worry about those.Sexist trash, and even by reviewing it, I'm giving it more time than it deserves.
loftdweller
Caught this one on the Mystery channel. I was curious about it because I liked Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. The movie is pretty formulaic with some weak acting and poor production. In several opening scenes, you can even see the mike, so don't expect much here. Feels like a tv movie with strong sexual content.One curious item is that in the opening scene, Naomi Watts' character is seen pleasuring herself while thinking about Jimmy Smits' character. For anyone who saw "Mulholland Drive," there is an eerie similarity to a pivotal scene in David Lynch's new dark tale. Curious foreshadowing to Ms. Watts' later roles.
Lynn
Why? I just saw this movie on Starz, and why is the question that comes to mind. Was Jimmy Smitts that badly in need of work? Or did he just not read the script correctly? Let's review, shall we?(Spoiler alert, sorry!) First off, a college professor who is well-known for his free love mentality, married to a woman he met while her professor some ten years hence, is seduced by a young woman who's his star pupil, the babysitter for his young children, and the Dean's daughter, no less. At first he does the right thing in telling her no, yet he doesn't take seriously her repeated(and escalating)advances. Nor does he **tell** anyone, his wife or the girl's father, about her behaviour. That's mistake #1. Then he openly banters with co-workers about her "crush" on him. Mistake #2, yes? She's already spending unusual amounts of time at his home and office, both for babysitting and for private tutoring sessions with this man. Mistake 3. When he **finally** gets around to taking her seriously enough to tell her to back off, she throws the predictable fit and he does the predictable pinning himself on her to stop her struggles. They kiss, he's hooked, they...well, ya know. Daddy, who's lost his wife in a car crash & transfers his grief/love for his wife onto his daughter in the sickest of manners, finds out and abuses his child in the worst way, leaving her mentally confused and ready to believe suggestions that her teacher raped her.Smitts is portrayed here as a confused, sexually hyped, bumbling idiot of the highest order. In this age where a father is afraid to hug his kids for fear someone will take it the wrong way and level accusations, this man is openly spending time with a young girl in a manner which people can view as ambiguious, at BEST. He remains clueless as to the ramifications of continuing to spend time with her when half of England sees her draping herself on him every chance she gets. And when his world comes crashing down around him, he's wide-eyed with confusion. Unbelievable, and the father/daughter relationship is just sick.I didn't think the shower scene with the girl was unrelated to the movie as some suggest. It portrayed subtly the awakening of a young woman to her body and the power of her own sexuality and fortells what can happen when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred to dangerous results. Would that the rest of the movie had been done as well.
cousinjon
I gave this movie a 7. I would have given it a 9 but a couple scenes of full nudity were not needed at all! That was disappointing to say the least. Great film work and the acting was very good! I thought that this was one of Smits' best roles. He was amazing. Especially the scene where the students wrote on his chalk board! That was incredible!
