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...movie (and play) demonstrate throughout an irreverent playfulness with language as if it were an assumed meaningless jargon. Spacey's Mickey clarifies the distinction between "flip" and "sarcastic"; Chazz Palmenteri's actor-99.44 percent consisting of repressed fury--seeks some solace in the exact conceptual phrasing of "karma"; and then there's Eddie's kabbalistic Merriam-Webster romp. Some bits are even a little reminiscent of a Coen screenplay, the way the guys repeat and throw this or that phrase around like an exotic football...
...wagon. There's Darlene (Robin Wright Penn in a reprise of the troubled slut she portrayed in Forrest Gump and Moll Flanders; I miss The Princess Bride), the old flame passed between Eddie and Mickey who counters Eddie's infidelity with her own in mock independence. There's Phil (Chazz Palminteri), the struggling actor who drowns his artistic voice in a persistent whine about his own worth. And there's weed, Valium, fast cars, big houses, sex, sex and more...
...very specific groups of people like... women. And men. And defense lawyers and prosecutors and cops and psychiatrists and politicians and all Asian people (especially Chinese-Americans) and blacks and whites and people who appreciate good movies and people who care about their seven dollars and people who like Chazz Palmintieri and redheads and brunettes and people with hazel eyes and... well, you get the picture...
...story (such as it is) focuses on San Fransisco assistant D.A. David Corelli (Caruso), who has had some sort of relationship with Trina Gavin (Linda Fiorentino), noted psychiatrist (right) and wife of Corelli's best friend, Matt Gavin (Chazz Palmintieri), the most powerful defence attorney in the city...
...Jade" is not resucitated by anyone. Any movie that has Angie Everheart and Linda Fiorentino in it is of some interest on a purely visual level. However, any movie in which Angie Ever-heart gives the most believable and compelling performance has some-thing terribly wrong with it. But Chazz Palmintieri is a genuinely good actor, and when even he can't do any-thing with this movie, we know that the core must be rotten...