Loving Jezebel

Written by a man (Kwyn Bader) who has convinced himself he knows what women want, Loving Jezebel is a film about an unconvincing, sensitive-guy romeo (Hill Harper) with a bad habit of coveting women who are already spoken for. He says he "loves all the things about women their men don't love." He spends the movie lamenting in voice-over about the string of girls he burns through, allegedly looking for true love. But while the film seems angled toward a female audience, none of these female leads (Lauren Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Sandrine Holt, Elisa Donovan) are anything more than one-note fantasy girls given fabricated depth by way of personality quirks. When he does find a (married) girl he loves, we just have to take his word for it because the movie doesn't demonstrate anything to convince us its the real amour. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Blackwelder)