Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plot twists upend and make old-hat whatever seemed the height of evil and deception just a scene ago. So, opening scenario only: Vanity realtor Sandra Dunmore (Patricia Arquette) is sleeping with her husband Jake's brother, Ben (Don Johnson), but since Ben and Jake (Dermot Mulroney) stand to share a bell-ringing inheritance, Jake and Sandra consider offing Ben, who is also idly condescending to pursue his insecure secretary (Mary-Louise Parker). When they do kinda-not-accidentally bump Ben off (a balcony), the sarcastic, haggard Sgt. Pompano (Ellen DeGeneres) turns up, with a Dudley Do-Right...
...conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself gets caught up in lies...
David Arquette's character, Josie's brother Rob, is the second motivator that pushes the cathartic journey along. He was once the classmate who egged on Josie's ridicule, a ridicule which snowballed into a series of nightmarish events that the movie chronicles through periodic flashbacks. But the sophomoric days of brotherly derision are behind him, and now he boosts his sister's morale in all the right situations while trying to improve his own stagnant life. In the meantime, his antics offer some great quips and scenes guaranteed to have you doubled you over in laughter...
...immortal words of Melrose Place hunk and brother of Elisabeth Shue `85, Andrew Shue: "Do Something...
State police picked Smith up last Thursday night at his brother's house. It was 72 hours since they'd been contacted by AOL, five days after Richard Smith contacted the FBI and a little less than a week since Melissa was posted. David Smith was released on $100,000 bail, and is scheduled to be arraigned this week. If convicted, he is expected to face about seven years in jail...