A Cool Dry Place

A Cool Dry Place

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Editorial Reviews

Sometimes you need to lose it all before you find out what really matters, When a handsome attorney (Vince Vaughn) is caught in the middle of a romantic triangle, he is forced to choose between his estranged wife (Monica Potter) who wants him back and his sexy young girlfriend (Joey Lauren Adams) who wants him all to herself.

Customer Reviews

GB Raze

Reviewed by Jerry Roeser, 2009-08-22

Could not find this movie at any of the video stores. Thanks to Amazon for the help. Much appreciated. After seeing it all the way through, I did not think that it was Vince Vaughns best. Just not the part for him.

BEAUTIFUL MOVIE!!!

Reviewed by Julie A. Ball, 2008-01-01

Heart warming and beautifully scripted, this movie is wonderfully acted from the top with Vince to the the young boy who plays his son. Didn't know Vince had such range but this movie proves it for him. Great addition to anyone's movie collection.

Amazing Vince

Reviewed by snakecatcher2000, 2007-11-21

This movie made me reflect almost continuously on the life of a close friend and how he took care of two sons and a daughter after his wife left him more than once and admitted to him that she wasn't capable of caring for and raising her children.

Now to actors. Joey is delicious. In every role she seems to just play herself and she is so delightful. Monica Potter is ethereal in both her mood and her beauty but she plays this character perfectly: drawing us in early with her charms and later exposing her flaws with elegant alacrity. But Vince! What amazing depth with which he portrays this gentle, confused, yet resolute and determined-to-get-it-right young father who first and foremost, loves his son.

Excellent movie. It is all of FIVE STARS in my book.

Jenn Aniston is Right

Reviewed by R. A Rubin, 2006-11-02

This film, made in the late 90's, highlights a newcomer, Vince Vaughn. Frankly, I've missed his stuff till he showed up in the National Enquirer dating Jenn Aniston. Recently I saw Thumbsucker, where he had a minor part, a be-glassed school teacher and chess coach. Then the Wedding Crasher thing happened and we saw a kind of motor mouth, gen-x, comic. Well that quick retort was foreshadowed in A Cool, Dry Place. There's a wonderful manliness and sensitivity in Vaughn's acting that's tough to project simultaneously. Think Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. We can hardly blame Joey Lauren Adams from falling for him instantaneously. Hell, I'd marry him. Er, okay, maybe not.

Therefore, a reluctant dad loses his high-powered attorney job because he needs to rush home and relieve the baby sitter. Mom had taken a hike, finding a man better than Vince. Hmm not too believable, but that's the plot. The kid is cute, dad is cute, and new girlfriend is red-hot cute, but then mom shows up. Thereafter the drama goes for tears. Folks from the Mid-West do move along a little slowly, so the pace may get you drowsy here and there. Still, I liked this film.

One of my personal favorite films

Reviewed by Damian Gunn, 2006-05-12

'A Cool Dry Place' to me is a very underappreciated film. It all but slipped under the radar and recieved little if any attention, but that's a shame, a huge shame. This film has always been one I enjoyed, but recently having seen it four times in the past month (it's played on TV almost every day) it's really grown into one of my personal favorite films. Vince Vaughn pulls out a brilliant performance, far more serious than most of his recent films, and he taps into something I've never seen in him before. Vaughn I think has hit some bad luck, for he's actually a pretty good actor he's just not given near enough credit where credit is due, and here is a prime example of due credit. Vaughn plays a single father, recently single, as he struggles to raise his young son (Bobby Moat). Not able to balance his career as an attorney and fatherhood he decides to leave his practice and move to Kansas where he coaches basketball and meets a lovly woman played by the beautiful Joey Lauren Adams. As there relationship developes Vaughn's ex-wife (Monica Potter) shows up to reclaim her place causing devision and turmoil in his life once again, and when offered an opportunity to take the position of a lifetime working for a law office in Dallas Texas he's faced with a crossroads...does he play working man or father. This is a brilliant look at fatherhood and the sacrifices one makes for his family. Beautiful story that leaves you with a lot of tears and a lot of heart.