(Anne Bancroft plays his intolerant mother, in a predictable subplot.) It is unclear whether Jake is underwritten or Mr. Obviously Brian can't have her, and Jake is afraid of Anna because he's relationship-phobic and she's a gentile. The details of the confused triangle get lost, too, because the lightweight charm of the leads curdles when the film tries to home in on their dilemma. Norton vie for center stage, allowing the camera to trace the dusting of freckles on her nose, a detail that isn't clear on television. Elfman doesn't use the coltish assault she employs on the television show ''Dharma and Greg,'' in which she plays the world's only princessy hippie. When she was younger, Brian described her as ''a magical cross between Jonny Quest and Tatum O'Neal,'' and she has grown up into a confident business conquistador whose most spiritual relationship is with her cell phone. Stiller's Jake, probably one of the few rabbis who stalk the streets in head-to-heels Prada.Īnna sends the hormonal equation through the roof. That burden is squarely on the shoulders of Mr.
Norton has wisely chosen not to bite off too much in directing his first movie, eschewing the biggest role. There are a few knockabout comedy scenes with amiable pratfalls gently skewering religious rituals and the essential immaturity of Brian and Jake. ''Keeping the Faith'' struggles hard to be a modern romantic comedy about commitment and, well, faith, but it doesn't quite make the grade. As children, they were all part of the same crew, making mischief on the streets of Manhattan before they grew up to become one of the freakiest triangles outside a bar joke. Norton), and a rabbi, his best friend, Jake (Ben Stiller), are in love with the same woman, the blond beanstalk Anna (Jenna Elfman).
KEEPING THE FAITH MOVIE
The movie does have an air of familiarity, its premise dangerously close to being a punch line. ''C'mon, a priest and a rabbi? I think I've heard this one,'' says a bartender in ''Keeping the Faith,'' the actor Edward Norton's directorial debut.
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