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The OH in Ohio takes place in sex comedy world, where marital dysfunction equals laughs instead of frustration and humiliation. Actually, since OH doesn’t contain much laugh-out-loud humor, that’s not exactly true, but what it lacks in real comedy it makes up for in an unembarrassed approach to modern sex. Parker Posey and Paul Rudd play a married couple whose conjugal happiness is threatened by the former’s frigid inability to achieve orgasm. After they break up, Posey embarks on a sexual odyssey (including a temporary vibrator addiction) and Rudd renews himself with an affair with a student. Mischa Barton plays this walking cliché — the wise-beyond-her-years Babe — among a field of well-intentioned platitudes. But OH avoids complete irrelevance with the sublime ridiculousness of its ending: Posey finds her match in pool guy Danny DeVito, sharing a moonlit evening with the short, ponytailed geezer by looking out over Cleveland from his waterslide/heated pool and then taking the plunge into blissful orgasmic union. No, I’m not making this up, yes, it’s awkward, and yet it somehow works, the kind of genuine absurdism that should be more prevalent in independent filmmaking.
Opens July 14
Opens July 14
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