Rock confuses film with stand-up

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2007 | by Carrie Rickey

Where do you draw the line between fidelity and adultery? Is it attraction? Flirtation? Emotional dependence? Kissing? Carnal knowledge?

The infidelity spectrum is the serious subject of the new Chris Rock comedy, a movie that provokes as many rueful sighs as it does bruising laughs.

I think I like I Think I Love My Wife , Rock's Americanization of French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's Chloe in the Afternoon . But I'm as ambivalent about the movie as its hero is about trying not to scratch his seven-year itch.

Like Rohmer's 1972 inquiry into how one maintains his morals in a world of temptation, ITILMW is not as concerned with what's happening as it is with what's happening inside the head of its protagonist.

Investment banker Richard Cooper (Rock), married...