GOING WITH IT.(Full Frontal; The Last Kiss)

Now and then, big-time filmmakers undergo curious moments of confusion in which they imagine that what they are doing--concocting characters and emotions, then assembling the scenes in an artificial progression called a story--is somehow naughty or deceitful. They may think that the stories are merely manipulative, that the actors are phonies, that the writers, directors, and set designers are getting away with something. And, of course, they are. Yet no one wants them to get away with it more than the audience. It's not as if we don't know that we're being lied to. All we ask is that the lies yield some truth--dramatic, emotional, erotic, geographic, decorative--that ...