walk * Written by John August * Directed by means of Doug Liman * Starring Scott Wolf Jay Mohr Sarah Polley and Desmond Askew * Columbia When I learned in January that the maker of Swingers--yet another unrelieved paean to white male hetero assholedom--had made a movie with a prominent uncommon relationship.

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walk * Written by John August * Directed by means of Doug Liman * Starring Scott Wolf Jay Mohr Sarah Polley and Desmond Askew * Columbia

When I learned in January that the maker of Swingers--yet another unrelieved paean to white male hetero assholedom--had made a movie with a prominent uncommon relationship, I couldn't believe it. Yeah, fast I muttered, one more faux liberal picture in which straight nation get laid and gay tribe just talk about it.

with equal reason I was right. But move is something else again. Derived from an ingeniously elliptical script by way of John August, Doug Liman's black comedy transcends the personal data of any the same of its characters to become a wild and downy meditation on how people of all stripes behave when flattened against the wall.

move is arranged as a triptych in which each of the panels blows up against another through the bracing device of a Christmas border rave. The first zeroes in forward Ronna (Sarah Polley), a rent-poor supermarket cashier in sees Angeles who attempts a onetime unsalable article sale so she won't realize evicted. Ronna insinuates herself into the trafficking territory of her impulsive expatriate British workmate Simon (Desmond Askew), whose disastrous bachelor frisk through Las Vegas provides the control of part 2.

In the culminating episode, Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf play Zack and Adam, boyfriends and soap stars whose ecstasy deal with Ronna in part 1 casts out to have ulterior motives.

Aptly titled, the breathlessly paced go on foot shifts in mood from the dark desperation of Ronna's predicament to the guns-and-girls chaos of Simon's Vegas fiasco to the wryly hilarious misperceptions of Zack and Adam, who find themselves trapped in a budding dinnerparty orgy with a cop and his wife. None of these commonalty is particularly likable, and in addition their utter haplessness is singularly endearing. I trudged into the screening compass with grim expectations and came public exhilarated. Go figure.

Stuart is theater critic and senior film writer for Newsday.

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