If you were betting on which Friends star would have the biggest impact on the film world, the affable, vaguely Dustin Hoffman-esque David Schwimmer would be a pretty good pick. Inexplicably, however, he's devoted much of his downtime from Friends to making shamelessly commercial, inept movies. Having executive-produced 1998's less-than-beloved Kissing A Fool, Schwimmer makes his directorial debut with Since You've Been Gone, a tame, forgettable comedy about a Chicago high-school reunion that brings together a wide assortment of character types, from the deluded class vixen (an atrocious Teri Hatcher) to the token gay guy (The Single Guy's Joseph Slotnick) to the class eccentric (Lara Flynn Boyle). Schwimmer, having found tremendous success in TV, seems to have devoted his time as an auteur to making films that look and feel like bad pilots. Resembling nothing so much as a landlocked, Miramaxed version of The Love Boat—right down to the large supporting cast, predictable rounds of coupling and uncoupling, and frequent low-wattage guest stars (Jerry Springer, Marisa Tomei, Molly Ringwald, Jon Stewart)—Since You've Been Gone is inoffensive but uninspired. If nothing else, its atrophied, lifeless tone could be a step toward driving a well-deserved stake through the heart of the nascent but already tedious '80s-nostalgia genre.