It had an actor who reminds me of Phillip Roth–but apparently it was not him.
There’s a scene where his wife(?) is eating grapes w/o washing them first.
The husband objects. The wife sarcastically claims that she is trying to slowly commit suicide by eating unwashed grapes.
He divorces her and ends up marrying another woman.
The rub is that after he marries the new wife she reveals that she has no intention of being monogamous.
I watched it in the early aughts.
I think it came out in the late 90s.
Do you remember the exact line about the grapes? Some googling isn’t getting me anything except A Street Car Named Desire references*, I assume it wasn’t that.
Assuming it’s not What’s Eating Gilbert Grape then I don’t know. I think Tim Roth is a great actor and I’d remember this if it was in one of his movies that I saw. Roth does resemble other actors so maybe your ID is off. Digressing here, I thought Roth would have been perfect to play the Green Goblin in Spiderman 2 and 3 and I was disappointed with Dafoe.
Slight tangent: my mom can be quite shameless when she wants to make a point. She once saw a couple, seated in front of her at a sporting event, eating grapes right out of a supermarket bag. She tapped one on the shoulder and said, “I wouldn’t do that without washing, if I were you. I used to be a cropduster [not true], and you wouldn’t believe the chemicals we sprayed on them.” The couple hastily put away their grapes.
To this day, people in my family refer to my mom as “the retired cropduster.”
It prob’ly wasn’t Tim Roth–just someone who was somewhat similar to him.
I had no idea who Tim Roth was at the time.
Afterward, I decided that it may have been Tr. But when I check his filmography, there’s nothing which seems close.
So, it’s likely someone else who bear at least some passing resemblance to Tim Roth
Can’t help, but as an aside maybe IMDB needs a “looks like” feature which when you enter say Tim Roth will list all the actors people say look like Tim Roth.
It was set in the US.
The genre…idk…depressing chick flick?
It was all about romantic relationships. The ending was depressing as dude was now stuck with the new chick and seemed to start to be nostalgic for the unwashed grape eater.
The grapes comment was the part that I remember the most because I thought it was funny.
Sadly, my Google-fu has failed me. usually, if I can cobble together enough elements from a movie, I can use IMDB’s ‘plot keywords’ to find it, but there’s not a lot to go on here. And general internet searching netted me lots of Streetcar references, one Canadian stage production company, and a YouTube video of a 6 year old freaking out over an unwashed grape.
My wife remembers the movie too, so I am confident it exists.
The events of the movie are just so commonplace that it seem nearly impossible to Google it.