Wacky, imaginative, scary, funny. Frank Sinatra looks conspitated, Janet Leigh slightly camp, Laurence Harvey effective, Angela Lansbury sublime. Kicks up when Harvey kills his very nice bride and her father.
Sinatra's character is a bit of a dill, letting Harvey go, failing to stop assassinations. Sinatra's torment strong at the tend. Woman very sexually aggressive here - Leigh and Harvey's girl and Lansbury. Lansbury so good.
One of the better films from Cannon Picture it's pretty grim. Roy Scheider is a businessman blackmailed by three genuinely interesting villains over an affair he's having with Kelly Preston. Scheider refuses to go to the police and as a result Preston dies, wife Ann Margret is raped, and both almost die. He doesn't get much come uppance to be frank.
Nice to see Ann Margret in a decent film but her part isn't much. Scheider is fine, John Glover and Clarence Williams are superb, Robert Trebor good too. I love how Glover is into the financial books.
Hadn't seen this since it came out. Has aged quite well esp in its depiction of neuro diversity. Stunning acting from Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Armin Mueller Stahl. I forgot Sonia Todd was in this. Such a clever script - every section has a character who is nice to David (the music teacher, Googie Withers, John Gielgud, the old ladies, Sonia Todd).
Great set. Moving topic. Lead actor played it in one note. Text maybe needed to use names for characters we don't see. A lot of description and repetition and I zoned out a bit. The final section is strong but you can't go wrong with disaster and a dead baby.
This was really strong once it got going - but it took about 30-40 minutes for the plot to kick in i.e. that Kerry Fox wanted the other two to come with them to the nuclear plant. Once it did it was fine. Three well defined characters, a decent dilemma.
Knew nothing going on. Enjoyed it a lot. Felt there was more to be mined about the defence of affluenza, but maybe they figured the Ethan Crouch case was sufficiently well known. It kept me guessing. Noah Schapp's first appearance was silly, walking in and drinking wine and walking out. The play wasn't that well directed - transitions bad, the ending confusing.
A half success. Great leads and some first rate songs but doesn't quite click. Needed to set up their existing lives more. Why give songs to the detective? Also why give the song during Thelma's first proper sex to the guy and not her? The musical number with the pool is silly. The one about Texas is brilliant. This needs more work and less silly dancing but it has a lot of potential and emotion.
