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Rachel Griffiths turns in quite a show in writer-director Pip Karmel's musings about what can happen when someone gets the life for which she longs. Griffiths plays Pamela, who sees her life as a shambles. She's in her thirties and without the relationship she has craved. She has missed her chance to have the man she turned down, and now she obsesses over this opportunity that eluded her. What if?
Karmel has rigged an imaginative plot device of plunging Pamela into the world to which she has aspired, and now saddled with the guy who originally got away, she also has the rest of the melange, three children plus a dog. Coping is not what dreams were made of. Griffiths is an inspired actress, and she extracts considerable comedy as well as drama from portraying the two lives of Pamela.
If the viewer is bothered by the method of transition and is overly concerned with credibility, the film can have its problems. But for those who can go with the fantasy, there is plenty of food for thought in this witty, entertaining exploration of the difference between what one envisions and what the reality might be. There are other commendable performances by David Roberts and Sandy Winton. A Sony Classics Pictures release.
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