Adam Rapp's comedy Loitering with Intent is about a number of things, but it might have been better served by being about more about fewer things. Old friends Dominic (Michael Godere) and Raphael (Ivan Martin) are frustrated New York actors who have 10 days to write a script from scratch, so they sequester themselves in Dominic's family's dilapidated house upstate. Said sequestering is interrupted by the arrival of Dominic's sister Gigi (Marisa Tomei) and her hot young friend Ava (Isabelle McNally), whose primary story purpose is to distract the boys with her hotness, including getting topless for no other reason than to ensure the film gets an "R" should it ever face the MPAA. Further interruptions take the form of Gigi's macho-shithead boyfriend Wayne (Sam Rockwell), looking to reconcile with the Raphael-smitten Gigi, and Wayne's literal bro Devon (Brian Geraghty), the latter of whom sets his sights on Ava, her being super-hot and all. There are some deeper themes about both the creative process and the business of show (such as the frustration of being given a professional opportunity, only to have it taken away just as quickly because that's how things work), but Loitering with Intent tends to lose them in favor of a Southern Gothic tribute in which nearly everyone's a Faulknerian idiot man-child.
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