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Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Sometimes there are films that are so weird that it's actually good to see. Sometimes that are films that are so normal that's actually boring. And other times that are weird films that are boring and pointless trash. This last example is the case of "My New Gun", a not funny story about a woman and her problems with a gun given by her husband. Debbie (Diane Lane) is awarded by her husband Gerald (Stephen Collins) with a .38 Special only because another couple friend of them did the same thing. But Debbie starts to think that her gun might explode during her sleep, and she barely can't shoot with it. In the middle of this dumb situation Skipp (James LeGros, the reason of why this movie was watchable) a neighbor friend of Debbie appears to help her to deal with the gun. The story gets so lousy to the point of Gerald accidentally shoot his own foot, stay several days in the hospital and when he's finally out he wants to divorce his wife. By the time when that happens he's an annoying and unbearable character who's only action is to scream to his wife. Not funny!Skipp actions starts to disturb Debbie, first because he "stolen" the gun, didn't said to her why he needed to used it, and then his friend (Philip Seymour Hoffman) also accidentally shot himself (we never know what happened to him after this). The mess gets bigger when Debbie plays the detective and starts to investigate Skippy's mysteries to find that his strange mother (Tess Harper) is a former country singer with problems with her husband (Bill Raymond). I guess I told the whole movie. Almost two hours of my life that I won't be able to explain why I wasted. Let's see...It had good actors and the story seems to be very different and cool to see it. That was my thought before I saw it. My thoughts after I see it: It has noting funny, the good cast was wasted, although I find James LeGros very mysterious and good here, but another director could give him a better lead character in another movie. Almost all the characters here are non-likable, with some tasteless punchlines and behavior. And what's the point of the movie? It didn't criticized anything about guns and their problems, it only shows someone who fears it but in the end she is forced to used it and not even recognizing that in the right time it can help you. Not even a statement or a satire over the excessive use of arms in Hollywood films. It wasn't like "It's the Rage" (very good movie about the indiscrimination of bear guns). Bottom of line: It didn't needed to be made. Waste of money (the producers's money and the people who's about to rent it). 3/10

Overall I felt that this was an extremely well written movie. I had not heard of it the first time it came out, but a friend recommended it to me and I just loved it. I even suggested it to my in-laws who loved it as well, and they don't like anything. I loved the angle the writer used. The plot is not like all the other boring ones seen in the theaters today. You are never quite sure what will happen next, because everything that happened was not expected. The dialoge is smart and quick bringing in a plethora of one liners that provoke laughter. Best part....see Diane Lane at such a young age and still giving a great performance. This is a great date movie too because the sexual tension is done extremely well.

Everything in this movie seems to me to have evolved rather than being contrived as is so often the case in American comedies. The characters are all credible, and some are refreshingly likeable while the "bad" guys get what they deserve, but only that rather than the overkill typical of moralistic movies. Stacey Cochrane's debut as writer/director.

Slight plot about what happens when fumbling wife Diane Lane receives a gun from her husband. Nicely performed comedy especially by Stephen Collins and James Le Gros. A light divertisement directed in the style of the later "Happiness".