“The Departure” (**1/2 out of four) was a slight but engaging story about a hot-shot sales manager (Grant Wright Gunderson) who is offered a lucrative promotion for a job in New York; prior to leaving, he asks his best friend (Austin Lauer) to attempt to sleep with his girlfriend (Kendall Chappell) to test her loyalty but this leads to complications and consequences for all of them. Minimalist melodrama yields moderate results but sharp performances from all three keep you watching and keep you involved up till its ending which is unsatisfying and abrupt. Same story told to broader and more comic effect in 1998’s “Kissing A Fool.”