Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes

Starring:Steven Weber, Swoosie Kurtz, Gail O'Grady, Gabriel Mann, Nina Siemaszko, Jack Johnson (II), Bonnie Somerville, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gregg Henry, Larry Cedar, Stacey Travis, Sean Moran, Matteo Southwell
Director: Matthew Irmas
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Product Type: DVD

Description

Small town insurance man and lovable lothario Hutch Rimes finds himself embroiled in the middle of a murder plot when he agrees to help one of his lovers kill her abusive husband. It's a delightful mix of comedy and film noir that is sure to entertain.

Customer Reviews:

A comedy noir without Wings.......2007-06-29

The director of "Sleep Easy,Hutch Rimes" doesn't know what tone to have. It doesn't know if it wants to be humorous, suspenseful, or romantic. By trying to be all genres at once, it fails spectacularly. Steven Weber stars as a Don Juan insurance salesman whose other full-time job is seducing women. Weber's utter lack of sex appeal makes his lothario role worthy of suspension of disbelief. After all,going to the movies IS a fantasy;the thought of Steven Weber playing an insurance salesman Casanova is quite a stretch.

The plot is noir-ish,and needlessly complicated. There's adultery! Romance! Murder! Double entendres! The conclusion is quite violent,as is expected. Swoosie Kurtz plays Binnie Redwine, the faithful secretary who has always pined for her boss. She's old enough to be his mother. In the closing scene in a hotel room, Weber looks generally shocked when lingerie-clad Kurtz is ready to get her hands on him.

It's not surprising this mediocre movie didn't make it into theaters;it lacks Wings.

With Lyrics and Music, Can Become Broadway Musical...........2005-01-18

....ah...I can see it now. Slappingly funny double entendres, tongue in cheekness ala the musical Chigago. A good idea. Steven Weber plays bedabout good natured lout Hutch Rimes who it turns out was too close to the scene of an accidental shooting. The husband (Proudfit) of a woman Hutch was having an affair with shoots and kills her one night as the husband suspects someone is snooping 'round his house. Proudfit, it seems, was on the right track about someone snooping as his wife has convinced Hutch (seen in a series of quik edits dressed in a cat burgular outfit out in the yard somewhere) to sneak in to murder Proudfit, but a snafu has him rifling his wife instead. Fast forward years in the future: Hutch's whole smarmy life unravels as Proudfit is relased from prison and threatening events occurs--his Caddy tires are slashed, cut and paste hate notes are sent to him, his office is trashed. Is it Proudfit or one of the husbands of one of his many conquests doing the dirt? Only his trusty Right Hand Gal, Binny, (a woosy Swoosy Kurtz) can clean up this mess and meet him later in the hole in the wall tavern down the street. Played for lightheartnedness and laughs I do think it can successfully made into a Broadway musical. Look at Hairspray.

Sleep Easy Hutch Rimes.......2004-07-24

Insurance salesman has an affair with his secretary with murderous results. Okay comedy/noir that tries to touch a few too many bases and drags a bit in the middle. Entertaining and forgettable.

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