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The counter effect of this, however, is that the film often seems too talky, self-indulgent and dramatically flat, a fact not helped by the excessive 122-minute running time. One appreciates the fact that we are not being rushed along from one highly dramatic moment to another without time to really get to know the characters as people. Lee is not afraid to give the characters their due, to allow them to reveal their many-layered personalities in scenes that play out in real-time tempo and rhythm.

On the positive side, writer/director Malcolm D. The movie provides so richly textured a depiction of the interrelationships between and among the wide assortment of characters that it alternately straddles the line between fascination and tedium. Ironically, the primary strength of the film also emerges as its overarching weakness.

In addition, the novel contains the revelations of a few hitherto well-guarded secrets, some of which bear directly on the principals involved in the wedding itself. The problem is that much of the material in the book has been drawn from autobiographical sources and now, as old friends gather for the ceremony, the author and best man, Harper Stewart, has to face the fallout from some of the less than flattering portrayals contained therein.

The film tells the tale of a handsome up-and-coming writer whose first novel has just been published on the eve of his best friend's wedding. `The Best Man' is a flawed but generally rewarding romantic drama, featuring a first-rate cast of likeable, talented actors.

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