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Scenes are short, speeches more so.
his name to Cezanne. Mia, too, hates
Emotions bubble on the back-burner.
her given name; perhaps she should
You might start to feel famished for a
try Demoiselle d'Avignon, or La
juicy slab of O'Neill or Williams, or
Goulue. Quite possibly, she and
one brief shot of Courtney Love swing-
Cezanne have sex, but just one yawn
ing nude on Larry Flynt's chandelier.
could neuter that for you.
Freundlich seems to want multilay-
Sometimes, pregnant minimalism
ered minimalism, about a New
had better be Zen or it's nothing. The
England Everyfamily (are they your
best to be said for The Myth of
family? Sorry). Apart from a mighty
Fingerprints — big title for a little
tempting turkey, which nobody is seen
movie — is that it provides a tasteful
truly enjoying — they're too busy
antidote to a berserk grabber and
stitching quilted footnotes to Woody
groaner like A Thousand Acres. Rated
Allen's Interiors — and some frequent
R. Exclusively at Landmark's The
jumps into the sack, the movie is about
Main Theatre.
not connecting. Chekhov did it better.
* 1/2
Blythe Danner is Lena, an elegant
— Reviewed by David Elliott
mother earth, an open hearth of love
ROCKETMAN
yet not very verbal (damn, are these
It wasn't me. It was Harland
Yankees). Roy Scheider is Hal, the
Williams,
the Jim Carrey/Jerry
tense, bottled (and bottle-prone) patri-
Lewis/Pee-wee
Herman morpho-thing,
arch and rural squire. Scheider looks
squawking,
screeching,
careening and
haunted, perhaps by thoughts of a huge
caroming
through
RocketMan
as geek
shark, or good roles that got away.
astronaut Fred Z. Randall.
Danner and Scheider are powerful as
It was Jessica Lundy, who plays it
talents, but even they can only do so
straight
and falls flat as the love-inter-
much with just faces. They have been
est
astronaut.
It was William Sadler,
used too little in '90s films to justify
who
handled
silliness
just fine while
Freundlich daubing them on, lightly,
illuminating
Bill
6-
Ted's
Bogus
with his dainty brush.
At one point,
Danner goes up to the
attic with her bored
and brittle, oldest
daughter, Mia (Julianne
Moore). We expect hair
will be let down, and
fine fur will fly. With
performers this good,
how can it turn boring?
It does. Freundlich
has them throttled. Nor
does he do anything
but bring up an old
song memory when
remote, testy Hal goes
for a walk in the woods
with his son's delightful
lover, Margaret. That's
Hope Davis, so terrific
in The Daytrippers, who
Harland Williams stars as computer geek Fred Z
still keeps her humor
Randall in RocketMan.
up and zips one great
line: "That spider could
Journey, but here, playing it straighter
have kicked Charlotte's ass.
even than Lundy, turns in a spectacu-
Sons Jake (Michael Vartan) and
larly leaden 90-minute slow burn.
Warren (Noah Wyle) are interchange-
It was Beau Bridges, so good and so
able parts as nice, young guys. Mia's
reliable
so often, reduced to painful
husband, a dull therapist (Brian
earnestness.
It was Stuart Gillard,
Kerwin), is a nice, older, dorky guy (is
who,
despite
having Teenage Mutant
he a sleep therapist?). Laurel
Ninja
Turtles
III under his belt, direct-
Holloman, as sassy daughter Leigh,
ed this shoddy embarrassment.
perks around as family mascot.
It was Craig Mazin, who, despite
James LeGros adds moments of
— or, more likely, because of— his
surprise as a distant schoolmate of
background as a director of marketing
Mia's, Leonard, who blithely changed
for Disney, co-wrote. And it was Greg