That was an excellent one.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Bodies, Rest and Motion is an entertaining, well shot, well acted and well written film. Yes, as the title suggests, it is "philosophical", but it is certainly not dry or pretentious. The twists and turns used to sneak the "philosophy" into the mouths of the characters are fantastically clever. (Reminds me of Mamet.) However, this dialog is so well written that it fits perfectly into the mouths of these characters. This film can be watched two ways: as a slacker diary similar to Dazed and Confused, Clerks or Mall Rats or as a language-driven meditation on love, fidelity and ambition (lack thereof).I've read reviews that call this film pretentious. I suspect that those reviewers don't appreciate that film can be linguistically creative and intellectually stimulating while still being fun. However, I feel that one of the reasons that this film was overlooked was that it was classified as a romantic comedy. Do not go into this film looking for "You've Got Mail" or "Down with Love". Also, don't go into this film looking for a hero to cheer for (though you might just find one).Judge for yourself: Would Eric Stolz, Phoebe Cates, Tim Roth and Bridgett Fonda lend their colossal talents to pretentious garbage? If you're a writer, screenwriter or poet, then snag a copy of the script. Like Mamet's work, this script is well worth the read just to savor the writer's talent for making seemingly mundane dialog speak volumes.This is a very under-rated and under-appreciated film!

Why I watched this movie is perhaps more interesting than the movie itself. I wanted my own DVD copy of a superb movie, "The Legend of 1900" with Tim Roth. That DVD sells for around $15. But I could buy a two-pack of Tim Roth movies, "The Legend of 1900" and... "Bodies, Rest&Motion", both DVDs in separate packages, for less than $10 total! So, what's a guy to do? Seems like crazy marketing, but I'm better off for it."Bodies, Rest&Motion", is named for Newton's Law of Physics, which states, a body at rest or in motion will tend to stay in that state unless acted on by some outside force. This is supposed to describe the four main characters, and their situations in life, what do you do with yourself. Phoebe Cates as Carol is clearly the best here. The reasonable, organized one, but who still has some contact with her former boyfriend, the useless and amoral Nick, played by Tim Roth. Bridget Fonda plays Beth, Nick's current live-in girlfriend. He gets fired from his TV salesman job ("I was going to quit anyway") and announces to Beth that in two days they would be moving from Arizona to Butte, Montana, because it seemed like a good change, even though neither had been there. In comes Eric Stoltz who plays Sid, the painter hired to repaint the house before the new tenants move in. The movie is about how they interact with "life" and with each other. Each encounters "outside forces" which alter their states of rest or motion, not so much physically, but psychologically. It is interesting as a character study, but we get no backstory when the movie begins, and we get no resolution when the movie ends. It's only interest is seeing the characters interact. Fortunately, all the characters are interesting.SPOILERS FOLLOW, you may want to quit reading. As Beth is preparing to move with Nick, he calls mutual pal Carol, asked her to tell Beth he has left town, heading north. So she gets rid of everything as she also has a quick overnight affair with Sid. We see Nick try to look up his parents in his old home town half way, but finds strangers living there. For some reason he heads back to Arizona and finds Beth gone, with nothing but her VW and some belongings in suitcases. Nick finds out details of the past day, tells Sid, who professed to already love Beth, he was crazy to let her go. Thinking she would be traveling to her parents in Florida, Sid takes off east on I-10, then after dark begins to stop at cheap motels, looking for her car. The movie ends, after not finding her at the first place, and we presume he will continue east and continue looking, and we don't know if he will ever find her. An outside force, however, has changed his motion.

Boring! This is another perfect example why you don't transfer plays into films. And if you're going to even try, you don't let the playwright do the screenplay. Lots of rest, little motion. Throw this one in the junk pile of plays with Hurlyburly.

I'm not for all those superficial cry baby movies. This is different. It touches you directly right there in your chest. A real character study with great performances (all four of them, but allow me to have a preference to Tim Roth). The ending is just wonderful! See it! A proud 8.