Middle-aged nerd (pocket pen set, daily uniform of white dress shirt and black slacks) loosens up after a chance encounter with an outgoing dropout in a Davy Crockett costume. John Turturro's robotic posture and movements have the physical expressiveness of a silent-cinema clown, and his dance, when he really cuts loose, is a riot. But the surrounding absurdities and oddities (a doggy dish of Oreo cookies in milk for breakfast) are piled on so high as to become the humdrum norm. With Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, Annie Corley, Dermot Mulroney; written and directed by Tom DiCillo. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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