Forget who gets to keep the ring—when a couple splits, the real question is, who gets to keep the friends? In this modern comedy, a couple’s break-up will complicate all of their friends’ lives and make everyone question their choices. When life throws you for a curve, hold on tight to the people you love.

Every circle of friends has someone who’s the gravitational center. For years, perfect couple Dave and Alex drew their friends in and held them together. Now that they’ve split, does this group have the stuff to stay together? Or do Max, Brad, Jane and Penny have to choose sides? Suddenly every event is a negotiation… like, who gets to go on the annual ski trip? There are a lot of big questions to be answered, but this group has been together so long, somehow, little by little, they’ll figure out how to hold on, even though their center is split up. It helps that Dave and Alex have agreed to stay friends. But there will definitely be other complications down the road—like Penny’s long-suppressed feelings for Dave. What is the waiting period for dating a friend’s ex? This show isn’t afraid to ask the embarrassing personal questions that inevitably arise in every long-term, close-knit group of friends.

Cast

• Zachary Knighton as Dave
• Elisha Cuthbert as Alex
• Eliza Coupe as Jane
• Adam Pally as Max
• Casey Wilson as Penny
• Damon Wayans Jr. as Brad

Other Information

• Genre : Comedy
• Created by : David Caspe
• Country of origin : United States
• Language : English
• No. of seasons : 1
• Executive producers : David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, Jonathan Groff, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
• Camera setup : single-camera
• Running time : 22 minutes
• Production companies : Sony Pictures Television, ABC Studios, FanFare Productions
• Original channel : ABC

Links

• Official website

Sylvester Stallone and his cast of fellow action stars flex substantial ensemble muscle in this high-energy battle between good mercenaries and bad mercenaries.

An effective mix of lean and over-the-top, “The Expendables” is often preposterous, but it achieves the immediacy of a graphic novel without the overdone mythology. Genre fans for whom there’s no such thing as overkill will make it a fearsome contender at the box office when it opens stateside August 13. The director/star’s newest since “Rambo” is also sure to be a muscular performer in international markets.

Even when they’re going for the obvious laugh or comeuppance, Stallone and his co-writer, David Callaham, use deft shorthand to etch their characters in bold outline, and the actors put their well-defined personas to work to complete the process. A group of freelance warriors who have lost their connection to righteous causes in favor of almighty cash, the Expendables may be hardened, but they’re not yet inhuman.

Leader Barney (Stallone) regards friends and enemies alike with a sad gaze (beneath strangely distracting eyebrows). Knife whiz Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) is man enough not to hide his hurt over a busted relationship, while combat expert Ying Yang (Jet Li) is angling for a raise. In smaller roles, Terry Crews and his biceps handle the operation’s biggest weapons, and Mixed Martial Arts star Randy Couture explains things, like his cauliflower ear, in fine scientific detail.

After the high-body-count rescue that opens the film, Barney chooses to cut loose sniper Gunner (Dolph Lundgren), believing his (unseen) drug use and high volatility make him untrustworthy – a conviction that’s soon validated when Barney and Gunner are on opposite sides in a clobbering car chase. Although a couple of women figure in the story, its true subject is the ties, broken and otherwise, in this brotherhood of latter-day samurais. In the film’s most nuanced scene, Mickey Rourke, ultra-charismatic as the ex-Expendable whose tattoo parlor serves as HQ and clubhouse, recalls the moment in Bosnia when he knew his soul had dried up.

The mission that wakens Barney’s dormant compassion involves the fictional South American island country of Vilena, where a former CIA operative, Munroe, pulls the puppet strings of dictator Gen. Garza (David Zayas, of “Dexter”). As the icy evil-in-a-suit rogue Munroe, you couldn’t do much better than Eric Roberts.

Determining that if they take out the general they’d be sacrificing themselves to save the CIA embarrassing headlines, Barney and his boys turn down the assignment. But then he meets the general’s beautiful rebel daughter, Sandra (newcomer Giselle Iti, suitably fiery), and for the first time in years, money isn’t everything.

Americans are both heroes and villains in “The Expendables,” which avoids political specifics while embracing brute force as righteous retribution – and shows the bad guys resorting to waterboarding. It can be an uneasy mix, but mostly it’s played on too broad a scale to take seriously. DP Jeffrey Kimball frames the action for kinetic impact and velocity. The extended fight scenes deliver the easy catharsis of straight-up violence, all with a comic-book sense of pow and splat.

The winking boys-will-be-boys quality is at its most blatant in a scene containing uncredited cameos by Bruce Willis and the moonlighting Governator. (Outside the film’s Los Angeles premiere, California state workers protested their pay cuts by Arnold Schwarzenegger; most action-film fans will probably delight in the scene’s self-consciously starry chemistry, and its punchline.)

Production designer Franco-Giacomo Carbone’s evocative sets and locations (in Los Angeles, Louisiana and with Brazil playing Vilena) enhance the body blows and the camaraderie. Even with action writ large, though, Brian Tyler’s score too often reaches for bombast.

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But her recent nude scene in her hit Showtime series “Weeds” went too far: “I didn’t think I needed to be naked,” she tells MORE magazine. “I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter.

“I knew it was going to be on the Internet: ‘Mary Louise shows off her big nipples.’ I wish I hadn’t done that. I was goaded into it.”

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