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...ferocious battle of wits ensues. On one side: Buckaroo (Peter Weller) and the members of Team Banzai. On the other: Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), once a brilliant physicist, now the vilest, battiest extraterrestrial in all the genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...
...career has included many conventional entertainments (The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King), he has always been game for such bizarre experiments as Beat the Devil, Freud and Reflections in a Golden Eye. This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination. Wise Blood is based on Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism and surrealistic wit. Huston takes to O'Connor's hothouse style like a gambler to a royal flush...
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