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...John Bubber (Andy Garcia)--the homeless man who rescued 54 passengers including newscaster Gayley--turns out to be an incredibly nice guy. His niceness is do magical that a comatose boy wakes up after Bubber visits him. The public and the media go wild. News reports of the "Angel of Flight 104" are always accompanied by the patriotic strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...usually fiery Andy Garcia is totally miscast. He looks the part of the fraudulent "perfect hero" John Bubber and does an adequate job of rendering Bubber's muted, too-too sincere personality, but you wish Garcia didn't have to have such a subdued role...
...forget the flaws, or aren't such an anal movie critic, "Hero" well provide an evening of innocuously amusing entertainment. As Bernie LaPlante explains to a guilt-ridden John Bubber at the end of the film. It's just a matter of finding "the layer of bullshit" you're comfortable with...
...beneficiary. Yale-educated Michael Thomas, who at 46 has had successful careers in both milieus (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lehman Brothers), has distilled from the darker lunacies of these worlds a novel of crackling humor and mordant observation. Its bigger-than-Barron 's protagonist is Oilman Buford ("Bubber") Gudge IV, who has been content to nurse his multibillion-dollar fortune in the Texas Panhandle until lust and vengeance propel him forth like a plague of pissants...
Gudge has two serious problems: he is dying of cancer and he is totally at the mercy of his new wife Caryn, a dexterous Texas tart who has decided that she wants nothing less from Bubber than the most dazzling collection of Renaissance art left in private hands. Unfortunately, the pictures are not for sale. In addition, the dying man is hell-bent on getting even with a half-sister who once cheated him and a Senator who once humiliated him on TV. Gudge's revenge involves a vast investment swindle that will administer America (in the author...