Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. Ronny's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair. And in the process of investigating her, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own.
14 April 1988, Peoria, Illinois, USA
9 December 1983, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
8 September 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 31, 1987 in United States
12 December 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
29 October 1971, Winona, Minnesota, USA
13 February 1959, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
June 30, 2013
Lacking any great surprises, this story meanders along trying to prolong the dilemma for as long as possible.January 18, 2011
It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience.January 18, 2011
Perhaps the late Blake Edwards could have found a balance between slapstick and psychodrama, but Ron Howard can't get the pacing right, and Allan Loeb's script is even wordier than the one he wrote for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.January 28, 2011
As cumbersome and drawn out as a slowly deflating tire, this cinematic collision between Vaughn's celebrated funny-surly persona and Howard's earnest pedigree is a bore -- and a serious miscalculation.January 16, 2011
Ends with 20 minutes of apologies, a round robin of regret that downshifts the film's sputtering energy into park.November 18, 2011
It deals with a serious issue of problems in a marriage, but it does so in such an ignorant, clumsy, sophomoric way with a sexist point of view that it loses any value, either morally or in terms of entertainment.November 18, 2011
The man who grew up on sitcoms and then made agreeable diversions like Splash and Parenthood seems to have lost his comedic touch.September 28, 2012
The Dilemma is quite enjoyable until its characters stop behaving like rational adults and start acting like they've just realised they've got a film to finish.January 23, 2013
Unsettling and so off tone that we wonder if we are supposed to be laughing at this at all.November 18, 2011
Shockingly dark, the focus of "The Dilemma" is less about cheap laughs and more about the absurd humor of existential loneliness.January 24, 2011
Who ever thought that Ron Howard could make a cult film? This movie is a mess, but it's an intelligent and affecting mess.January 15, 2011
The filmmakers just don't know what to do about the ladies.