Last of Four Parts
Knuckleballs Too
by Jamie Jobb
Seventeen more knuckleball comedies from that ten-year span of 1990-2000, a very ripe decade for the creation of wacky films at the end of a millennium.
Quick Change 1990
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
Soapdish 1991
The Fisher King 1991
The Player 1992
Bob Roberts 1992
Six Degrees of Separation 1993
Schizopolis 1996
The Birdcage 1996
Flirting With Disaster 1996
Palookaville 1996
Citizen Ruth 1996
The House of Yes 1997
Bulworth 1998
The Slums of Beverly Hills 1998
Election 1999
Nurse Betty 2000
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Bill Murray is no Bozo with bomb on his chest
Quick Change (1990)
"Chief, the Peruvian Connection, the Subway Psycho! People are gonna remember what you've done. What's so memorable about a clown stealing one million dollars?" Flummoxed Gotham top cop, Chief Rotzinger (Jason Robards), realizes any harlequin can rob InterCity Bank -- but you need real brains to escape New York City. "It's not our neighborhood!"
Gifted jester Grimm (Bill Murray) is frustrated city planner and aimless white-face gunman, aka "Mr. Bozo". Police description: "average height, average build, red nose, blue hair."
Although Grimm soon feels "complete", girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) dreams of Fiji's Turtle Island lullabies and old friend/accomplice Loomis (Randy Quaid) is still "the kind of person that gets innocent bystanders killed".
Non-stop slow-burn French-style farce thrives on tidy bits by boastful bank guard (Bob Elliott), leery neighbor (Phil Hartman), baffled cabbie (Tony Shalhoub), domineering bus driver (Philip Bosco) and pompous mobster (Kurtwood Smith). "Those darn terrorists have made it tough on us bank robbers."
Directed by Murray and Howard Franklin, screenplay by Franklin based on novel by Jay Cronley. Surprising low-key chase peppered with floor-mop bike jousts, Nouvelle Versailles condos, "copycat clowns", and flowers for the dead. "That clown was no clown!" (USA)
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Quick-Change/10396
forever backstage lurk Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
"We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as an entrance somewhere else."Backstage bit players Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman), who knows he is "only good in support", and Guildenstern (Tim Roth), who believes "it could have been worse", know they are but "little men"bound by laws of probability and chance.
"We don't know the ins and outs of the matter. There are wheels within wheels, etc. All in all, I think we'd be well advised to leave well alone." But they cannot, for they have been summoned by newly crowned Claudius (Donald Sumpter) to "glean what afflicts" his mad nephew and their good friend, Prince Hamlet (Iain Glen).
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." "Stark raving sane!" Meeting them half-way are wagonload of vagabond Tragedians lead by The Player (Richard Dreyfuss) who is "tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style" for he understands "audiences know what to expect and that is all they're prepared to believe in".
Written and directed by Tom Stoppard, based on his play-behind-the-play-within-the-play of Hamlet. Stoppard's magical wonder of Boards and Bard was filmed twenty-three years after it opened on stage. "What are you playing at?" "Words, words. They're all we have to go on." (USA)
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Cathy Moriarty and Whoopi Goldberg restrain America’s Sweetheart Sally Field
Soapdish (1991)
"Of course I'm an egomaniac, I've got America's Sweetheart climbing up my drainpipe!" Soap opera colossus "The Sun Also Sets" is "crawling with subplots" on and off camera. Celeste Talbert (terrific Sally Field) plays Maggie, aka "America's Sweetheart"who is actually "the queen of misery" and "a bad news buffet".
Celeste's "niece", homeless mute-ingenue Lori Craven (Elisabeth Shue), is bound to suffer "sudden speech, the last stage of brain fever! She could blow at any moment!"
And although he would rather mount his Off-Off-Broadway "one-man Hamlet", Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Klein), aka "Mr. Right", reluctantly returns to resurrect role of Dr. Rod Randall, tragically decapitated in 1973 Yukon big rig wreck. Bewildered head writer Rose Schwartz (Whoopi Goldberg) just wants to know: "How am I supposed to write for a guy that doesn't have a head?"
Manipulating this daily spectacle of pain and suffering are producer David Seton Barnes (Robert Downey Jr.) and femme fatale Montana Morehead (Cathy Moriarty). "I can not be the villain forever. I'm sweet, I'm tender. I'm a victim!"
Directed by Michael Hoffman, written by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman. Hilarious lampoon of Daytime Big Bang universe where actors' lives wobble more than characters they portray. "That's cute, but when are we gonna put someone in a coma?" "Actors don't like to play coma, they feel it limits their range." (USA)
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Jack Lucas witnesses Janitor of God scream to high heaven
The Fisher King (1991)
"Thank God nobody looks up in this town!" WNOO-AM shock-talk-jock Jack Lucas, aka Mister Bum (Jeff Bridges), is "very self-absorbed" and has "too many thoughts running around up there". Now"sick with experience" and guzzling his namesake "Breakfast of Champions", Jack hits the slippery streets of Gotham. "It's easy being nuts – try being me!"
Former Hunter College prof. Henry Sagan, aka "The Janitor of God" and "just Parry" (Robin Williams), is earnest unhoused savant who believes he's "a knight on a special quest".
Urban troglodyte Parry saves Jack's hide but would rather be "cloud busting" or shadowing girl-of-his-dreams, Lydia Sinclair (terrific Amanda Plummer), "a mousy little woman" and romance-novel publisher's drone who may be "the greatest thing since spice racks".
Jack's girl, Video-Spot manager Anne Napolitano (Mercedes Ruehl), has "a great set – of dishes" and knows she's "too good a woman to go to waste" as wannabe bride and Jack's employer-nurse. "Sorry to tell ya this but the days of debutantes are over."
Directed by Terry Gilliam, screenplay by Richard LaGravenese based on his novel. Rowdy-powerfulBig Apple love-story vision-quest finds itself lost in Pinocchio, The Red Knight, Fifth Avenue Armory, "Jesus' juice glass" and astounding Grand-Central-Station waltzing-nuns. "Besides, you find some pretty wonderful things in the trash." (USA)
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Tim Robbins stands out in lineup with Lyle Lovett and pals
The Player (1992)
"So it's kind of a psychic political thriller comedy ... with a heart?" "Not unlike Ghost meets Manchurian Candidate."Tinseltown's Good Life clamps down on SOB Studio exec and smooth operator Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins). The Trades see him ousted for "comer" exec Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), "the Golden Boy at Fox".
Disgruntled screenwriters like David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio) know he'll never "get back" to them. True-blue "D-Girl" friend Bonnie Sherow (Cynthia Stevenson) no longer trusts him.
And while semi-tough studio security head Walter Stuckel (Fred Ward) tries to keep him honest, peculiar Pasadena Police Lt. Susan Avery (Whoopi Goldberg) and Detective DeLongpre (Lyle Lovett) box his every shadow. Were it not for "pragmatic anarchist" June Gudmundsdottir (Greta Sacchi), his white-hot "Ice Queen", Mill would certainly burn from the Hollywood heat. "Oh please, this is Pasadena. We do not arrest the wrong person. That's LA."
Directed by Robert Altman, screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his novel. Altman's caustic Industry-insider satire "pitches" Habeas Corpus, jumbo tampons, Range-Rover rattlesnake and cell-phone stalker into edge-of-seat comedy-thriller peppered with scores of celebrity cameos. "What about the way the old ending tested in Canoga Park? Everybody hated it. We reshot it, now everybody loves it. That's reality!" (USA)
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Tim Robbins as Freewheeling Wall Street millionaire
Bob Roberts (1992)
"My husband trusted that his son would take the lessons of the Lord with him, no matter what instrument of the Devil caressed his hand." Poet, biker, folk-singer, fencing enthusiast, cunning Wall Street millionaire, U.S. Senatorial candidate -- "Freewheeling" Robert Roberts, Jr. (Robbins) makes mincemeat of plausible deniability in political bid to "Retake America".
Roberts, "the Rebel Conservative", ran away from Peacenik 60s home to enter Westmoreland Military Academy en route to becoming Christian hero "who can clean up the Devil's mess in our Capitol."
Crypto-Dylan song titles -- "Times Are Changing Back", "We Shall Not Be Moved" -- belie Bob's mercenary motives. "If you're afraid of an active market, you're a dead man."
Incumbent Senator Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal) is ineffectual opponent to dirty tricks and MTV marketing of self-proclaimed "people's candidate". Indignant Iran-Contra operative Lucas Hart III (Alan Rickman) is CIA-trained campaign manager who stops at nothing, including attempted liquidation, to mold image of Roberts as "Martyr of the New Right".
Written and directed by Tim Robbins. Scathing knuckleball satire is cynical end-of-millennium flip side of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. "Hang 'em high for a clean-living land." (USA)
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Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing beguile New York with scam story
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
“Having a rich friend is like drowning and your friend makes lifeboats … Only your friend gets very touchy if you say one word: “lifeboat”.
Ouisa (Stockard Channing) and Flan Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) live hand-to-mouth in artful upper crust of Upper East Side. Dealers without gallery, they handle quiet acquisitions: “a great second-level Cezanne coming up for sale in a very messy divorce.”
At their door appears injured “friend” of their college-aged children. Central Park mugger has seemingly stolen his thesis about Death of Imagination as reflected in “Catcher In The Rye”.
The young man, Paul “Poitier” (Will Smith) woos them with tales of his famous father Sidney, who “being an actor, has no real identity.” Paul offers them bit parts in Dad’s next movie, “Cats”. He promises they can be people, instead of cats.
In the end, it’s difficult for Ouisa to know for sure which Cat runs bigger scam – the young man or her husband. Perfect end-of-millennium story told in exquisitely seamless flashbacks drilling rich seams of trust, truth, wealth, culture, race, friendship, family, communication, design, art, leisure, work, reputation and the pictures you hold of yourself in your mind. Directed by Fred Schepisi. Written by John Guare, based on his play. (USA)
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Steven Soderbergh mugs his way through cinematic solo performance
Schizopolis (1996)
"You see, we are what we pretend to be because we pretend to be what we really are. The act is not an act." Despite moles, spies and interoffice bomb threats, Fletch Munson (Steven Soderbergh) ghostwrites speech for tycoon meta-guru T. Azimuth Schwitters (Mike Malone), author of "How to Control Your Own Mind", "Here I Am Now" and "Eventualism".
On home-front, Fletch "converses" with bored wife (Betsy Brantley) in dubbed Japanese and crypto-grammatic statements: "Generic greeting." "Acknowledgement."
Fed up, she leaves him for doppelganger dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek (Soderbergh also) who short-distance jogs, speaks dubbed Italian, desires to be "the happiest man in my pants".
Dr. Korchek quickly comes to realize: "Oh my God, I'm having an affair with my wife!" and dumps her for Attractive Woman No. 2 (Brantley, also). None of this relates to rise and fall of Casanova exterminator Elmo Oxygen (David Jensen) who seduces housewives with slapdash wordplay: "Throbbing dust generation." "Drum tissue outburst."
Self-mocumentary masquerades as news-flashy training film chock-full-o-nuts, pseudo-facts, Muzak wastebaskets and wayward golf balls. "At age nine I have an out-of-body experience while playing right field. Three runs score."
Written, directed, performed, cinematographed, and mugged-in-mirror by Soderbergh. Goofy on purpose, heretofore serious Soderbergh starts pulling his own leg, and it's very funny in this cinematic solo performance. "Language does not always require speech." (USA)
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Nathan Lane and Robin Williams in lush subtropic pastels
The Birdcage (1996)
"Love and optimism vs. cynicism and sex: It would be an affirmation. If necessary, we'll get the Pope's blessing. It's not hard." South Beach nightclub owner Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) understands his featured act and main squeeze, Albert aka "Starina" (Nathan Lane), has a fragile disposition. "Either I'm an artist, or I'm just some cheap drag queen playing it straight so he can get laughs."
Their mad maid Agador/Spartacus (hilarious Hank Azaria) is a "combination of Lucy and Ricky"who has "natural heat".
Life's a beach above their Birdcage until Armand's son Val (Dan Futterman), "the only guy in my fraternity who doesn't come from a broken home", decides to marry Exeter student Barbie Keeley (Calista Flockhart) and invite her folks home to meet his. Barbie's Beltway parents just don't understand.
Her father, arch-conservative senator Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman), is co-founder of Coalition for Moral Order and mother Louise (Dianne Wiest) has likewise limited worldview. "Barbara, I've made your mother cry. I'm up for reelection. We're in the middle of a scandal. I'm in the home of a ... gay couple who own a drag club. I realize you want to get married, but how many lives do you have to ruin to do it?"
Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Elaine May, based on French play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret. May's wickedly hilarious script skewers self-righteous American Christo-politic in "Enquirer Heaven" of "We Are Family" values. "This breaks my heart. They don't make women like that anymore." (USA)
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married dad Ben Stiller stuck between a jock and a hard place
Flirting With Disaster (1996)
"Why does he have to do this Roots thing? Aren't we good enough parents?" Entomologist Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) "never shared physical traits with family before" so he yearns to solve "The Mystery of My Unknown Self".
Although Mel's wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) sets "dates for sex", she knows "I'm not the nanny -- I'm the wife!" Adoption agent and ex-hoofer Tina Kalb (terrific Tea Leoni) "may be attractive, but she's got a screw loose" while thinking she's got everything "under control". Tina admits: "What do I know? I'm just a 30-year-old woman desperate for a baby of her own in the middle of a divorce."
Together they tote nameless infant Coplin from New York to San Diego, Battle Creek to Antelope Wells in search of the illusive Schlichtings -- sculptor Richard (Alan Alda) and potter Mary (Lily Tomlin) -- who were "indisposed" at time of Mel's birth, and still must "supplement" their income in basement chemistry lab.
Trailing them are Mel's paranoid adoptive parents, Ed (George Segal) and Pearl (Mary Tyler Moore) who admits "It's possible I over-reacted". Also tagging along are Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms partners Tony Kent (Josh Brolin), a tattooed aspiring writer, and Paul Harmon (Richard Jenkins) who feels like he's "the fifth wheel" and wants to know "Is this a musical table?"
Written and directed by David O. Russell. Brilliant post-modern-screwball road-rage marvel pays homage to Bringing Up Baby with lost keys and support bras, Indian wrestling and bump-and-run, hypospadias and "the warm-water method", uranium contamination and Taco Bite, spastic colon and Ronald Reagan windowpane. "I guess it's just one of those ex-felon, pro-acid kind of non-smoking homes." (USA)
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Vincent Gallo, Bill Forsythe and Adam Trese as polite, humble crooks
Palookaville (1996)
"I'm not talking about a life of crime, I'm talking about a momentary shift in lifestyles, a little itty-bitty alteration." Three "self-unemployed" down-and-out Jersey City klutzes -- Russ (Vincent Gallo), Jerry (Adam Trese) and Sid (Bill Forsythe) -- plan to rob Lettieri Brothers Jewelry but break into Damanion Bakery instead. "It made an L ... Who knew?" Clearly these are kinder, gentler film crooks."We're cheaper, we're more reliable, we're more polite, we're humble." "We should just forget theft completely. Just rule it out, concentrate on ideas."
But ambivalent outlaws get hung on gritty details -- flat tires, drill bits, dog bites, auto-insurance deductibles, bus-route cutbacks and $30,000 abandoned in Emergency Room rush. "It's only armed robbery if we carry guns. The thief gets the benefit of the doubt, you know. It's kind of a rule of thumb."
Russ' "cop-in-law" Ed (Gareth Williams) licks the evidence but "puts his hands in strange pies". Enid the Remarkable second-hand fur girl (Bridgit Ryan) wants to know: "Did you ever try being deaf?"
And neighborhood confidant June (Frances McDormand) understands "You can always come back baby, it's not the Bermuda Triangle!"
Directed by Alan Taylor, written by David Epstein. Epstein's solid script pins tail on post-machismo Rust-Belt home economics. "Boys don't always grow up. They age, they put on weight, they lose sap, they lose hair. They grow lumps and warts, they have regrets, they lose their tempers and they blame women. But they do not automatically grow up and become men." Or smooth operators. But they could become City Samaritans. "She's trying to arrange my life!" "Somebody's got to." (USA)
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Laura Dern can’t comprehend why judge is in contempt
Citizen Ruth (1996)
"I slept in some dumpsters, maybe I slept on some babies." Arrested sixteen times in eighteen months, Ruth Stoops (amazing Laura Dern) warrants first-name recognition from Council Bluffs cops. As destitute hazardous-vapor junkie and homeless unwed "unfit mother", Ruth finds herself pregnant, again. "I was only unfit for two of 'em!"
Judge Richter (David Graf) warns her in no uncertain terms to "take care of this problem" as he orders her back to jail. But this time she's "rescued" by "the first clean people she's been around" -- Gail (Mary Kay Place) and Norm "Ask Me" Stoney (Kurtwood Smith) -- local commandos of God-fearing "Baby Savers" who aim to convert Ruth into All-American Pro-Life poster mom.
"We're the soldiers of Christ and his cross is our shield." Ruth feels "like I won the lottery", until she visits "Tender Care Pregnancy Center" and discovers she is "full of sin and disease" not to mention "Baby Tanya", her eight-week old fetus now with a face.
Rescuing Ruth again is Diane Sieglar (Swoosie Kurtz) who, with Sister Rachael (Kelly Preston), leads opposing Pro-Choice force. "You don't know what it means to be a sister!" Now caught in crosshairs of fanatically wacko abortion warriors, Ruth slowly realizes her role is merely "to send a message" -- one way or the other.
Directed by Alexander Payne. Screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor based on novel by Tom Perrotta. Frantically outrageous satire is sleight-of-hand masterpiece that thrives on hard-corps "Tomb of The Unborn Baby" ironies yet avoids preachy partisan pitfalls; Dern's deft touch subtly spins low-life loser Ruth into moral core of story. "I had four others kids and I didn't make a cent!" Helpful hint: endure closing credits for nifty sound-track surprise coda (see Election). "If these women knew what they were doing, they wouldn't do it!" (USA)
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Parker Posey hog-ties the guys in twisted Thanksgiving plot
The House of Yes (1997)
“I suppose you think I’m going insane just to be fashionable.” Upon arrival for Thanksgiving dinner at stately home of her future husband, newly engaged New York donut girl Lesly (Tori Spelling) remarks that she’s “never been to a hurricane before”. However, her betrothed, Marty Pascal (John Hamilton), has good reason to feel reluctant about introducing bride-to-be to his cryptic family.
His mother (Genevieve Bujold) believes “people raise cattle, children just happen”. His dim-bulb younger brother Anthony (Freddy Prinz, Jr.) thinks “nobody buys matches, people FIND matches.”
And his twisted twin sister Jackie-O (Parker Posey) imagines “love is for people with tiny lives”. Although Lesly just thinks Sis is “spoiled”, her family knows Jackie-O has been “over the edge” and back.
Storm-induced power failure not only ruins dinner but also brings out Pascals’ worst-kept family secret. “A mother doesn’t spy, a mother pays attention!” Bitterly funny post-absurd fable takes on JFK assassination, handguns, carnal logic and “the importance of honesty in a relationship”.
Written and directed by Mark Waters based on play by Wendy MacLeod. “Men don’t marry girls who smell like powdered sugar. They have a sweet little affair with them, which they recall fondly in their twilight years.” (USA)
hip-hop Warren Beatty out to find his street cred
Bulworth (1998}
"Obscenity? I'm a Senator! I gotta raise $10,000 a day every day I'm in Washington. I ain't gettin' it in South Central, I'm gettin' it in Beverly Hills." Incumbent Congressman Jay Billington Bulworth (Warren Beatty) is "an old liberal wine trying to pour himself into a new conservative bottle".
Bulworth (D-Ca.) says he believes in "a hand-up not a hand-out", but he hasn't eaten or slept for three days and detests his new image. His chief-of-staff Dennis Murphy (Oliver Platt) grows frantic as election eve approaches and Bulworth suddenly bolts for "weekend research project" in 'hoods of LA. "All we need is a voluntary free-spirited open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction."
Although brother Bulworth can't distinguish kale from collard greens, he learns to speak truth-to-power in haphazard hip-hop odyssey. "Is that how white people rap?" Black Panther offspring Nina (Halle Berry) may buy into Bulworth's bad-ass 'tude, but insurance lobbyist/Beltway bandit (Paul Sorvino) certainly does not. "You know this is the first time I've ever arranged to get a guy to off a guy who I don't know who the guy is who's gonna off him."
While Jay's loyal wife Constance (Christine Baranski) still practices "family values" in bed with her lover, hubby eludes snooping media hordes. "They can't show the flowers if the man's in a close-up." And while Super-fly dope-dealer LD (Don Cheadle) is forced to reexamine his nefarious business interests, soothsaying street prophet (poet Amiri Baraka) understands "We need a spirit, Bulworth. Not a ghost."
Directed by Beatty, written by Beatty and Jeremy Pikser. Ludicrous federalist farce is certainly not Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as he poses one very outraged question: what if Insane-in-the-Brain politicians were really honest about campaign finance and "the substance supply industry" instead of slinging Stars-and-Stripes-Forever slogans. "If I'm not dead by Monday morning, I'm gonna stop payment on that check." (USA)
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Natasha Lyonne is bit-of-tomboy in 90210
The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
"Two-story apartment buildings featuring cheap rent and fancy names that promise the good life, but never deliver." OK, so Casa Bella is "a dingbat", some downscale address just "inside the city limits" of Beverly Hills.
At 65, used-car salesman Murray Abramowitz (terrific Alan Arkin) feels "like a horse ... like a rock", although he is late-bloomer father who wants best education for his kids and finds himself spread thin.
Young son Rickey (Eli Marienthal) insists his Dad is no "senior citizen". Big brother Ben (David Krumholz) wants to star as Sky Masterson. "I'm sick of moving. Why can't we ever stay put? It's not normal to move every three months." "It's normal in some cultures ... Nomads! They move."
Murray's lone daughter Vivian (terrific Natasha Lyonne) is "a bit of a tomboy" freshman who's "been hiding 'em" while turning overnight into busty specimen -- "like her mother" -- in house full of teasing guys. "Nobody's gonna marry you with hands like that!"
Trying to rescue her is recoverin' kissin' cousin Rita (terrific Marisa Tomei) who certainly knows how to stop big-rig dead in its tracks. "Hey, I'm not medical yet." And, although boy-next-door Eliot (Kevin Corrigan) is just "a building thing", in some jurisdictions it could be construed as "devirginizing a minor".
Written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, her first feature. Jenkins' supple script and lithe camerawork eventually snowball through loops of halter-top bra, "anchor scar", good vibrations, phone-booth confrontations, Guys and Dolls and "Is that your grandfather?" "We're nomads. I can't get attached." (USA)
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Reese Witherspoon as fatherless over-achieving class president
Election (1999)
"It wasn't a setback, it was an opportunity." Conflicted Omaha civics teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) gets overly involved with his G.W. Carver High School students because he "understands disappointment".
Thrice teacher-of-the-year, Mr. M believes "I made a difference" -- although he has his hands full with ferociously fatherless over-achiever Tracy Enid Flick (terrific Reese Witherspoon).
As Tracy revs up her campaign for class president, she volunteers for every committee "because I should lead it" and because one has "to pay a price for your greatness" and because "the weak are always trying to sabotage the strong."
Were it not for her darkroom romance with Dave "Ask Me" Novotny (Mark Harelik) ... "Who knew how high she could climb in life?"
And while clueless charming quarterback Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) only wants to please everyone, his adopted lesbian-leaning school-weirdo sister Tammy Metzler (Jessica Campbell) only wants to "send a message" to her student body. "How can something that seems so true turn out to be a lie?"
Directed by Alexander Payne; screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on novel by Tom Perrotta. Payne-Taylor take dead aim at stark target of oranges and apples, bumblebee-stings and 480 overnight cup cakes, "American Family Inn" and "Immaculate Heart". "If you're gonna be great, you gotta be lonely." (USA)
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Morgan Freemen guards his coffeecup from distracted Renne Zellweger
Nurse Betty (2000)
"I'm real sorry about all this, but I just know there's something special out there for me." Tip-Top waitress Betty Sizemore (amazing Renee Zellweger) pours plumb cup-o-joe but seeks "A Reason to Love" beyond her baffled birthday Oz of Fair Oaks, Kansas. "You're in love with someone who doesn't exist!"
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https://www.onderhond.com/blog/schizopolis-review-steven-soderbergh
http://thecinemaarchives.com/2020/04/19/the-birdcage-1996-mike-nichols/
https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film379814.html
https://www.derekwinnert.com/palookaville-classic-film-review-340/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/08/18/citizen-ruth-abortion-roe-wade/
http://moviescreenshots.blogspot.com/2006/05/bulworth-1998-directed-by-warren.html
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