In burying her mother, small town pharmacist and 40-year-old spinster Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd), unearths a scandalous family secret. The brief documentary history of the titular Virginia town that opens novelist and first-time director Adriana Trigiani’s undoubting romantic comedy suggested something more than another serving of Fried Green Magnolias. …
Edward Norton, making his directorial debut, shares screen time with Ben Stiller in the roles of boyhood pals who've gone separate but parallel ways -- priest and rabbi -- as hip, happening, new, now, popular, popularizing, palm-slapping types of clergymen. In short, "the God Squad." Then the Third Musketeer from …
An academic hoax -- faked footage of a "lost" New Guinea tribe in the Anthropology professor's backyard -- and a happy ending for the hoaxers. (Useful documentary evidence of moral decay in America.) A few old pros and one new -- Richard Dreyfuss, Lily Tomlin, Elaine Stritch, and Jenna Elfman …
Seamy as distinct from seamless blend of live action and animation, following in the footsteps (or the cattle trail) of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, et al. Under the direction of Joe Dante, a dependable maker of messes, it pays homage to the …
What begins as a passable Woody Allen knockoff, all the way to the old-time jazz accompaniment, gets increasingly silly and labored as it widens its social sphere to Mississippi and Idaho. Star-studded cast (Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Nastassja Kinski, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Charlton Heston) and …