Kind of a King Lear recast as Shakespearean comedy, capped off with the obligatory revel. Always a man interested in chasms, John Boorman here surveys much the same terrain as in Leo the Last, only in New York instead of London: urban haves and have-nots (but gonna-get-somes). And also as in Leo, he fails to tickle the funny bone, but, while trying harder, manages instead to dislocate it. Thus, the most wrenching chasm in the movie is not that between rich and poor, but that between the filmmaker's sharp eye and dull ear. The trompe-l'oeil tableaux vivants (painted by Timna Woollard) are only the most eye-catching of many beckoning spectacles. With Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Uma Thurman, Suzi Amis, and Christopher Plummer. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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