With Raggedy Man, you could feel that Jack Fisk wanted to make exactly that movie; with this one, you can feel instead that he wanted just to make a movie, another movie, any movie. Or at least any movie that had his wife, Sissy Spacek, in it. It is of …
Dutch film about a thirty-one-year-old agoraphobe (Alex van Warmerdam, the film's director also) who hasn't been out of his parents' apartment in ten years, and who passes his time by spying on the neighbors through binoculars or trying to catch flies with a scissors. It has, in short, a high …
The idyllic family scene at lakeside -- two beaming parents and their two small children -- is clouded over by the appearance of a black-gloved watcher, with telescope and little black notebook, in which he writes in red ink and capital letters: "T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W-!" Red ink, capital letters, and exclamation points …
The flimsiest, but not briefest, of premises sends two urban con men, Michael O'Keefe and Paul Rodriguez, to a shady Everglades charm school. Can they pass as well-bred gentlemen in Palm Beach society? -- or can at least O'Keefe pass, while Rodriguez, posing as his chauffeur, carries on his sub-Belushi …
Sort of a To Coach, with Love. The daughter of a football coach has always wanted to coach football herself, and she gets her chance at a ghetto high school whose previous year's record was one-and-ten. No problem. Or rather, exactly the problems you would anticipate, and their solutions. Michael …