ls who treat the women who stray into their sights with a degree of compassion normally reserved for cockroaches. These thirty-something men have left marriages and kids behind in their quests for good times, identity, love and the all elusive 'clarity'.
             Hurlyburly is not so much plot as slice of life, which revolves around Eddie, played electrically by Rupert Graves. This is a long way from Graves' Merchant Ivory past but he both rises and stumbles to the occasion. We watch with horror as, again and again, he metamorphoses from slick studio exec to reeling, spitting, drugged out disaster area. The rest of the characters are also quite mesmerising, in particular Andy Serkis' maniac Phil who is both menacing and touching and Susannah Doyle's (of Drop the Dead Donkey fame) wronged, party girl Bonnie.
             The weak link in this cast is undeniably Jenny Seagrove who plays Eddie's girlfriend Darlene. She is just not up to the standard of the others. In the incredible drug-addled debates and machine-gun exchanges, Seagrove acts as the vir
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