"Please don't die in my hotel room. I've got to sleep in here tonight."

I feel so much better about the fact that we found Fay Grim to be really confusing now that I know it's a sequel to a movie we have never seen and do not even have (Henry Fool). Great research there, Bigs! Regardless, we both liked this whacked out spy movie that slides back and forth between moments of slapstick silliness and moments of intense drama. The main story is pretty basic - everyone wants to find the memoirs of Fay Grim's missing husband, Henry Fool, who apparently has access to secrets that he should not and that compromise the security of several governments. The rest of it is not so simple and spirals out of control pretty quickly, with double agents, mistaken identities, and plenty of mayhem. I absolutely adore Liam Aiken (hey, he's 20 now! back off!) who plays Fay's precocious, trouble prone son, so that was a nice bonus for me. Although we both really like Parker Posey, this type of movie forces us to acknowledge that she's got a lot of charisma but she really is an awful actress. Overall, there are tons of characters that we felt like we should have known more about but didn't, and lots of little elements to the story that we couldn't quite grasp. So, I think we should watch Henry Fool so that we can fill in those gaps.