HBO's fictionalized account of the invention, development, and commercial exploitation of the silicone breast implant stars Chris Cooper (Lone Star) and David Schwimmer as the two doctors who invent the implant, make a fortune off it, and gradually watch it destroy their lives. Schwimmer begins the film playing a sad-sack variant on his Friends character: a nebbishy, neurotic loser mocked by his family and the community at large. But over the course of Breast Men, he metamorphoses into a debauched innocent let loose in a world of hedonistic pleasure. By the time his character is sniffing coke off the grotesquely inflated breasts of one of his stripper clients, it's pretty clear that Breast Men is at heart a cautionary tale with an abundance of nudity. But what makes Breast Men one of the most compelling made-for-cable films of the past few years is its fascination with the actual process of and issues surrounding breast augmentation—a process that the film, to its credit, depicts graphically and dispassionately. Breast Men is most interesting when it deals with the aesthetic, moral, and artistic concerns of the process rather than when dealing with its leads, both of whom are generally shallow and unlikable. The movie raises the question, for example, of whether or not the unnaturally large implants Schwimmer puts into his sex-industry-related patients represent a corruption of the original, vaguely humanistic aims of the surgery. It says something either very good or very bad about Breast Men that the actual process of breast augmentation comes off as much more complex and multi-dimensional than the men who created it.