I loved watching Michael Douglas as a disgraced car dealership magnate who, after decades of shoddy business practices and self-centered personal relationships, desperately tries to salvage something of his life. A modern morality play without the Hollywood ending. With Susan Sarandon and Danny DeVito. Rated R. Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Danny DeVito and Jenna Fischer co-star in this comedic drama written and co-directed by Brian Koppelman.

Rated R for language and some sexual content.

What the critics had to say:

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum:

With an outstanding screenplay by Brian Koppelman and disciplined direction by Koppelman and David Levien, a story that could have been generic (or worse, scented with flowery bulls—) turns into a precise, honest, and affecting drama.

The New York Times A.O. Scott:

A sharp, small-scale comedy of male misbehavior that turns out to be one of this dreary spring’s pleasant cinematic surprises.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Douglas plays Ben as charismatic, he plays him shameless, he plays him as brave, and very gradually, he learns to play him as himself. That’s the only role left.

Time Out New York David Fear

A truly impressive portrait of self-destructive, smooth-talking alpha males, and a testament to an actor who waltzes across that Peter Pan–syndrome tightrope with the greatest of sleaze.