The Dilemma

Tolerable Dilemma Delivers Dimensions of Descriptive Friendship
The Dilemma, PG-13, ***, Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah. Universal Pictures and Image Entertainment film. Director Ron Howard. Length: 104 minutes.

This unusual movie takes place in Chicago which happens to be the hometown of Vince Vaughn, one of the stars. Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are business partners. They are working on a fuel efficient car with a sporty body.
Working with a large automobile company to develop this car under a deadline, a sad situation arises. Ronny observes Nick’s wife with another man.
Now Ronny and Nick have been best friends since college. Nick and his wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) along with Ronny and his girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly) hit the hot spots in Chicago frequently. Now the information Ronny knows dampers his lifestyle.
Ronny has to keep Nick motivated, because he is the nervous type. Ronny is outgoing and very verbose.
Ronny is in conflict about what he saw. He knows he must tell his best friend what he saw. How is he going to do that? Furthermore, he knows that it will devastate Nick, but Ronny feels it is duty as his best friend to deliver the bad news.
Struggling with this bad news, Ronny begins to conduct a plan. He decides to follow the cheater and the cheatee to obtain pictures of the liaison.
Ronny discovers that the Geneva’s love interest is Zip (Channing Tatum). Zip is a musician, and a very unbalanced individual.
The performance by Vince Vaughn is one of his best. His dilemma is modified by his friendship with Nick. The movie gives Vaughn several moments of laugh out loud humor. It is a combination of drama and comedy.
“The Dilemma” is about relationships between husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend. With Ronny acting peculiar, Nick and Beth are worried about him. They think he is gambling again. Ronny attended Gambling Anonymous a few years ago.
Ronny is keeping what he saw mostly to himself. With secrets that could threaten his friendship with Nick, his dilemma propagates itself. I enjoyed this movie because of its originality. It is always refreshing to see something new on the screen with interesting performances by everyone.
Viewers may be going to the movie to see lots of laugh out loud humor. That will not be the case with this movie. However, it does have a few extremely funny scenes. Drama and comedy are closely connected, and this movie merged the two with an excellent story and great performances.
It is not the greatest movie out now, but it had enough moments to delivers some mediocre entertainment for a Saturday afternoon. Susan (Queen Latifah) works for the automobile company. She brings some surprising moments of laughter to this movie.
Remember when one digs into someone’s personal life, skeletons in the closet may be just around the corner.