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David Jacobson’s powerful docudrama
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about Jeffrey Dahmer does the unthink
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a creditable effort toward explaining, with
out excusing, some of the mind-set that
drove his crimes.
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Dahmer was con-
victed in
mur
dering 16 young men,
the killings being
attended by various
bizarre sex rituals
including cannibalism.
The case gained further
notoriety because M il
waukee’s homophobic
police department blew
the chance to nail
Dahmer when they
interpreted a desperate,
naked, young Laotian
man as the killer’s lover
running out after a
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Dahmer was, in fact,
known in the gay community as someone to
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avoid, but this didn’t prevent the charismat
ic, racist, self-hating homosexual from
Friends star Jennifer Aniston rescues her
attracting plenty of victims.
career from the brink of syndication in this
Jacobson, who also made 1993s The Secret challenging dramedy from the guys behind
Chuck & Buck. She plays a depressed wife
Life: Jeffrey Dahiner, wants to do more than
whose misery loves the company of a sullen co
mere ly record reality, so he takes us (ready or
worker (Jake Gyllenhaal). When he turns out
not!) inside the killer’s head, deftly inter
to be more than she bargained for, she finds
weaving memories of troubled teen years an
herself at a difficult crossroads.
of seduc
family life with present-day
—Jim Radosta
tion and murder. A particularly unsettling
sequence shows the young Dahmer (Jeremy
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Renner) trying to seduce a straight boy by
convincing him that getting a gay blow job
A misanthropic exterminator (Jeffrey Tam-
would be a major act of rebellion. This cat-
hor) loses his erection during a heterosexual
and-mouse game is punctuated with trade-
encounter and convinces himself he must be gay.
mark attempts to drug his victim, followed by
While cmising for “chicks with dicks" at a har he
a sudden, lethal assault, visualized elliptically.
meets another fiftysomething who has given up
Renner’s portrayal is intelligent and sym
on love (Jill Clayburgh). Believe it or not, this is
pathetic, illustrating someone who is so shut
the premise behind writer/director Eric Schaef
off from his feelings that his only way to find
fer’s shockingly inept romantic comedy, made
love is through murdering and hacking up
further unwatchahle with tasteless tranny, midget
other gay men, the ultimate grim response of
and dildo “jokes." What a missed opportunity to
the self-loathing homo.
put an older couple in the spotlight.
— Gary Morris
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of late? He does his best with this dull,
clunking drama about a New York detec
tive trying to protect his Long Beach
unkie son from being arrested for murder,
while battling thugs with names like Spy-
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it’s so entertaining! Mark Romanek (the
genius behind groundbreaking videos by
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