A serious bore. Keith Gordon's adaptation of a Scott Spencer novel chronicles the Nixon-era relationship of a working-within-the-system political animal (Billy Crudup) and his subversive boat-rocking lover (Jennifer Connelly), and their continuing, or resuming, relationship during his first Congressional campaign eight years after her death in a right-wing Chilean car-bombing. It might be described as a nonsupernatural ghost story, or even (depending upon interpretation) a nonghost story. Either way, though, the "ghost" is nothing more than a metaphor and nothing less than a letdown. And Gordon's directing career, which started out as both aspiring and interesting (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear), has levelled off (with Mother Night and now this) as only aspiring. Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Hal Holbrook. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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