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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 2002)
aprii 19.2002 C rush Andie MacDowell is the one with the crush— or rather the one head over heels in love with a much, much younger man (Kenny Doughty) in this uneven romantic tragicomedy. MacDowell and Doughty are both great, and the sex is hot, hut the well-intentioned study of changing women’s relationships in the face of an unconventional coupling turns into too much of a female-bonding sohfest. — Lisa Bradshaw <£§> D eath to S moochy Like previous Danny DeVito films (Throw Momma from the Train, The War o f the Roses), his latest project brims with inspired lunacy, dark humor and inventive situations. Pub licly disgraced kiddie show entertainer Robin Williams plots to destroy his successor, Smoochy (Edward Norton, brilliant as always), who meanwhile attempts to reform the corrupt and dangerous world of childrens entertainment. Harvey Fierstein’s amusing appearance as a charity fund racketeer is not the only “gay theme” here. — Kevin Moore the Butterfly's Wings, a reference to the theory that a flapping insect in the Atlantic can cause a hurricane in the Pacific. —Jim Radosta I ris Kate Winslet actually seems to channel Iris Murdoch as a young woman despite writer/director Richard Eyre’s determination to bland down the eccentric, brilliant bisexual novelist and her writer husband, John Bayley (Jim Broadbent and Hugh Bonneville), into tiresomely “serious” movie subjects. Judi Dench as the older Murdoch is fine but wast ed, as Eyre’s middlebrow sensibility precludes much of interest in favor of a predictable, Life time-movie Alzheimer’s storyline. — Christopher McQuain What's popped and what's flopped, In a theater near you. Spanking the monkey in Y Tu M amá Tam bién <&/£& <& > <£§> K issing J essica S tein Two attractive women find love in the per sonal ads, but can essentially straight girls be dud, bottom of the bag only if you’re really hungry cC§> <&> good effort, pass the salt <*£> <^> P anic R oom In the “for what it is” category: For what it is— an action suspense thriller, basically— Panic Room is a success. Director David Finch er (Seven, Fight C lub) offers the usual showy, technophilic camera tricks, and it’s filmed in his patented slick, dark Dank ’n ’ Damp-ovi- sion (which actually does befit the story). We also get to see Jodie Foster display the fiercest maternal instincts this side of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. —CM <& > H appenstance The adorable Audrey Tautou ( Amélie) turns on the charm again in this fable about how even our smallest gestures can change the course of other people’s lives. The origi nal French title translates as The Beating o f come gay? What could have been a homo- phobic embar rassment isn’t in this adapta tion by Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen of their stage play. Fortunately the pair insisted on playing the leads, too, which is largely why this film is so dam endearing -LB ^ <& > TREM BLING BEFORE G - D Sandi Dubowski’s must-see documentary follows the extremely varied lives of a group of lesbian and gay Orthodox Jews, each with a unique experience of the grossly unfair struggle and suffering that occurs when an individual’s sexuality is pitted against faith. These stories, in their realness, are as painful as they are Auto, Home, Life & Business □□□□□ "Your Independent Insurance Agency" Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker, Inc. mmmm, tasty! get the big tub o’ com compelling; not everyone gets a happy end ing, but everyone in front o f Dubowski’s camera earns our empathy. —C M Y T u M ama T ambien Using storytelling quirks similar to those in Amélie, director/co-writer Alfonso Cuarôn somehow achieves the impossible: A teen sex comedy that actually shows sex. A buddy movie in which one friendship’s limits truly are put to the test. A coming-of-age road trip where the characters arrive in a much different place by the end of their journey. 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