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COLD MOUNTAIN R
YOU GO SERVED PG13
CHEAPER BY THE
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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED - BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR - ALEC BALDWIN
WILLIAM H. MACY
MARIA BELLO
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HAMILTON PG13
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MYSTIC RIVER R
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MASTER AND COM-
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STUCK ON YOU PG13
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THE MATRIX
REVOLUTIONS R
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LOONEY TUNES: BACK
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[11:35], 1:55, 4:25
LOVE ACTUALLY R
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PETER PAN PG
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RADIO PG
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MYSTIC RIVER – R
SCHOOL OF ROCK PG13
3:30 8:30
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COLD MOUNTAIN – R
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THE MISSING R
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TIMELINE PG13
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Bad Luck
THE COOLER: Directed by Wayne Kramer.
Written by Wayne Kramer and Frank Hannah.
Produced by Sean Furst, Michael A. Pierce.
Cinematography, Jim Whitaker. Editor, Arthur
Coburn. Music, Mark Isham. Production design, tony
Corbett. Costumes, Kristin M. Burke. Starring William
H. Macy, Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello. With Ron
Livingston, Shawn Hatosy, Estella Warren, Paul
Sorvino and Joey Fatone. Lions Gate Films, 2003. R.
101 minutes.
[11:15], 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50
(12:30 2:40) 4:50 7:00 9:10
HELD !
OVER
Natalie (Maria Bello),
Shelly (Alec Baldwin) and
Bernie (William H. Macy)
in the Shangri-La.
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E
ven though no one smokes in theaters
anymore (thanks be), I left this film
feeling as if I had been stuck in a dark
Vegas smoke ’n’ booze factory, where under
flashy neon, oily men and lurid women lived
and died by the ker-ching of the slots.
The Shangri-La is definitely a throw-
back to the bad old days, a “gambler’s casi-
no” run by a cocky Shelly Kaplow (Alec
Baldwin), who finds his way of life, and his
casino’s, hanging in the balance. New suits
have weaseled their way into becoming
advisors for the mob guys he works for.
Squeaky-clean looking guys like Larry
Sokolv (Ron Livingston), an efficiency
man whose eye is always on the bottom
line.
Charlene (Estella Warren) in tow. Of course
the con in Mikey hits up the old man for
some dough for the baby, which he builds
into a huge pile of cash at the tables of the
Shangri-La. Let’s say Mikey’s scam has
serious side-effects and leave it at that.
Everyone gets involved, and it’s a very bad
scene.
I have many complaints with this movie,
although I recognize that some people will
like the show and tell others to see it. But
the movie’s violence is the kind I particu-
larly hate to see, you know, like torture.
And the sex between Natalie and Bernie
turned me off.
Both the sex and the violence are graph-
ic in crude ways, unlike a much more wor-
thy film that was briefly in town two weeks
ago, In the Cut. That film has plenty of
explicit sex and sex talk, but the director,
Jane Campion, knows how to direct actors.
Even Meg Ryan — I’ve wanted to slap her
in every movie she’s been in except In the
Cut — gives a mature, vulnerable perform-
ance that has nothing to do with being cute.
I left this film feeling as if I had been stuck in a dark
Vegas smoke ’n’ booze factory,
where under flashy neon, oily men and lurid women
lived and died by the ker-ching of the slots.
Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is a
sad, lonely man who’s been working off a
gambling debt he owed Shelly by being the
casino’s cooler. Bernie is such bad luck, all
he needs to do is appear at a winner’s table,
and the guy starts losing. Benny puts out a
winning streak faster than the fire truck
squelches a grass fire in the rain.
Bernie starts getting some attention
from a good-looking cocktail waitress,
Natalie (Maria Bello), which surprises him,
and before long they become an odd cou-
ple. Natalie seems as lonely in her own
sexy, beautiful way as Bernie, and they do
ordinary, everyday things as well as have
sex.
But like a bad penny, Mikey (Shawn
Hatosy), Bernie’s kid he abandoned years
earlier, turns up with his very pregnant wife
In The Cooler, the actors are mis-directed,
and the tone of the intimacy is lost. Bernie’s
groans and crotch shots may be what some
young dude imagines sex is like for an older
man, but audiences don’t need to hear it, or
see it, for god’s sake.
Who knows? With a more professional
writer and director, this movie could have
crawled a few notches higher up the scale
of Vegas-type movies. But with Goodfellas
and Croupier occupying the top spot, no
way The Cooler could end up anywhere
near them. The movie is conditionally
redeemed by its strange ending, but I was
still glad to get out of the smoky bar, go
home, shower, wash my hair and curl up
with a good thriller.
Dirty in a purely amateur, mobbed-up way,
The Cooler opens Friday at the Bijou.
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