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Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, hard
luck gambler, in U-Turn.
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owner Darrell (Billy Bob Thornton).
U-Turn is a funny, provocative cin-
ematic journey into a world where
surprises have no boundaries. It's an
original from Oliver Stone. Rated R.
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THE EDGE
Did writer David Mamet, as a boy,
spend lingering time with Argosy and
Male, chomping on meaty articles like
"I Escaped a Red Slave Camp!" and
"Man vs. Fanged Death on Cobra
Island"?
If he did, Mamet now gets his
smart-boy machismo out in the open,
the Big Open of Alaska, in The Edge.
A hormonal surge with undertones of
introspection, the film stars Anthony
Hopkins as Charles Morse, a shy,
bookish billionaire who suspects his
young wife (Elle Macpherson) is
cheating on him with his associate,
Bob (Alec Baldwin).
And, why not? She's a
babe. And Bob is a magnet
of hunkitude. Charles is a
decent provider (oh, can he
provide), but often seems
like a cold fish looking for
a refrigerator.
He comes darn close by
going to Alaska, where he
sniffs clues that Bob, and
maybe the wife, are luring
him into a permanent
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vacation. They almost
give him a coronary as a '1
birthday surprise, but
that is only a teaser of the g
fun to come.
The big, bad-bear motif is estab-
lished by grizzled hunter Styles (L.Q.
Jones, living up to the name with styl-
ized facial scars). A Far North version
of Robert Shaw in Jaws, he happily
tells Charles that a Kodiak bear is "a
man-killing machine." Jones, who's
been around forever, knows how to
make the words sing.
Deep into the wilderness, Charles'
airplane flies into a flock of birds and
crashes in a lake. Charles and Bob
come up gasping, as does fashion pho-
tographer Stephen (Harold Perrineau,
the first dreadlocks-wearing bear lunch
in film history, one assumes).
Charles is said to "know every-
thing," though he has gotten by on
theory, esoteric trivia and huge heaps
of income. Now, away from the dull
comfort of his money, he thrives.
Stunned into real purpose — survival
— he shapes up as a force for life (he's
like the Oxford Illustrated Steven
Seagal, though his beard comes in like
U.S. Grant).
Bob, Mr. Attitude, falls back on
cockiness and sniveling, "What's the
plan?" He seems to expect the next
glade to morph into a sports bar.
Mamet gives him lines from the usual
Mamet world of hustlers and deal
sharks, as when Bob notes that facing
the wilderness without food, transport
or more than a few measly matches is
"a little different than norting coke off
a girl's hipbone."
Soon, his own hipbone is in dan-
ger, yet Bob still offers niblets of dire
comedy. You may wonder what's up
with his little riffs of "gay" humor.
Maybe just Mamet being macho (he
and Charlton Heston could share
some fine conversations about homo-
sexuals).
Even after hardy Charlie saves his
life, Bob still turns treacherous and
homicidal. Male rivalry and comrade-
ship are core Mamet themes, but The
Edge strains to be about male bonding
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