The Dying Gaul / **1/2 (R)

Campbell Scott plays a Hollywood producer who loves the new screenplay by Peter Sarsgaard except for one detail – it’s about homosexuals. Make them straight, and he’ll pay the writer $1 million. While insisting on this deal, the producer simultaneously makes a pass at the screenwriter, and they become lovers, something that Scott’s wife (Patricia Clarkson) discovers through a plot device that it at first intriguing but ultimately fatal to the movie, leading to a singularly unsatisfactory ending. Too bad, because the premise, the dialog and the performances are absorbing right up until the moment the movie loses it.

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