the pompatus of love

Director: richard schenkman

Actor: adrian pasdar,paige turco,arabella field,dana wheeler-nicholson

Data Published: Fri Jul 26 1996

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Key Words: beer,drinking,love,pacific ocean,moon

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117357/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pompatus_of_Love

Description: The Pompatus of Love is a movie starring Adrian Pasdar, Paige Turco, and Arabella Field. Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker")...

Plot: The film revolves around four friends and their relationships with women. Set to the background of upscale Manhattan bars, lofts and apartments, the guys engage in sharp banter and one-upsmanship. The characters, Mark, a therapist (Jon Cryer); Runyon, a playwright (Tim Guinee); Josh, a playboy (Adrian Pasdar) and Phil, a plumber (Adam Oliensis), try (generally unsuccessfully) to sort out their troubled love-lives. Mark and his girlfriend (Kristen Wilson) are hung up over moving in together; Runyon is hung up over his old girlfriend Kathryn (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), who has moved to Los Angeles; the womanizing Josh is hung up on Phil's sister, Gina (Paige Turco), who has an abusive husband; Phil, who is married with children, finds himself hung up on an English interior designer (Kristin Scott Thomas). The characters in the film spend much of their time trying to decipher the word "pompatus," wondering whether they are mis-hearing the lyrics: "Prophetess"? "Impetus"? "Profitless"? "Impotence"? "Pompous Ass"? "Pom-pom tits"? "Poconos"?