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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0821575541855
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 70284
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Description:
Elliot Kelman (JOE PANTOLIANO) is a failed publishing executive who can’t get back into business. He supports himself selling suits at the local mall and relies on hand-outs from his mother, ex-wife, and son. He also self-publishes a weekly newsletter on the perils of self-delusion. Afraid his writings will be rejected, he hires a high school kid to post them on supermarket bulletin boards and stuff them under windshields in his New Jersey hometown.
After he meets the sexy Carole (JENNIFER TILLY) and his newsletter begins to find an audience, things start looking up for Elliot. However, the return home of his oldest friend Richard (BOYD GAINES), a prominent movie producer, and the only one of his friends to have found success, brings Elliot’s feeling of inadequacy and squandered potential back to the surface. With Richard in town, the competitive tensions rise, and once Carole takes an interest in his friend, Elliot must confront his envy of Richard’s success and his disenchantment with his own failure.
Second Best is a dark comedy that offers insight into men’s expectations of success, financially, sexually and otherwise, and provides a glimpse into what men actually talk about when women aren’t around. This is a film that explores how a generation of men who were expected to achieve their dreams can ultimately overcome the reality of falling short of them.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Too Many Liberties With Unwarranted Vulgarity
I did something with this movie I've never done before - I threw it in the trash. Yes, really. Bad language can't carry a mediocre story and depressing characters.
Low, low reseller prices should tell you something (several available for 1 cent). They just wanna make a little on the shipping.
Rating: - Not bad, not great tale of a sort-of loser
Joe Pantoliano carries this film, playing the main character--a middle-aged, divorced, cynical guy whose failed marriage and boot from his high profile job as a tony NY City publishing house editor lands him in the middle of, from his point of view, Loserville.
While JP's acting is very strong, the thing going on here with the story is just a little too cringe-producing, just a little too trying-too-hard. It's as if the screenwriter really, really wants you to feel sorry for this guy ... Read More
Rating:  - Amazed I hadn't heard of it
I really enjoyed the movie. Here is this dysfunctional loser that reminds me a little of me, of my firends, there are very real feelings wrapped into this movie, he screws up, tests of friendship. I enjoyed the journey.
Rating: - Like Looking ina Mirror
My grandmother, God rest her soul, used to tell it like it was. If you were losing your hair, she pointed it out. If you were putting on weight, she told you so. My moustache made me look short, and she told me so every time she saw me. Having no tolerance for the little lies people tell themselves and their loved ones to make life more bearable, she had no patience for the insistence of friends and relatives to the effect that their commonplace sons, daughters, grandchildren and/or siblings were ... Read More
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