Word: capshaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes late in the film, when Kate Capshaw, playing a no-nonsense femme fatale-cum-cattle ranch owner, takes revenge on her emotionally retarded son Flyboy (Jeremy Davies) for dropping his role as flunky to become "man of the house." (Flyboy, since his father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what...
...Locusts stars Vaughn (Swingers, The Lost World) as Clay Hewitt, a man on the run who ends up in a small Kansas town, and goes to work at a ranch owned and operated by Capshaw. Capshaw immediately begins to seduce Vaughn, causing sexual tension and rivalry with other ranchers. Clay escapes from the growing soap opera on the range, through his relationship with a local girl (Judd). But when Vaughn befriends Flyboy, teaching him how to be man and not to take abuse from Capshaw, a skewered triangle erupts between the three of them, with Capshaw turning up the sexual...
...dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd having a picnic with Davies, you feel as if you're watching two different movies. What's meant to be seen as ambitious and dramatically compelling comes across as strung out and hollow...
...also got momentum: besides his role as a nature photographer in The Lost World, he stars in the forthcoming neo-noir drama The Locusts (opposite, coincidentally, Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw), and is filming the comedy Clay Pigeons (with Janeane Garofalo). "The reason I've scheduled all these movies in a row is that I don't know how long this window of opportunity will last," says Vaughn. "While the opportunity is here, I want to take advantage of it." Don't sweat it, baby, the word's out: everybody knows you're money...
...director was even more excited when his wife Kate Capshaw gave birth to their latest child Destry. With excellent timing, she arrived on a production...