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directed by Peter Chelsom...
Filmmakers today are desperately stalking an elusive, yet deliciously lucrative genre--the cult classic. Peter Chelsom's new "Funny Bones" is one of the few to capture the capricious beast. The film, starring Oliver Platt (the dramaturg-thug of "Bullets Over Broadway"), brilliantly walks a tightrope between absurdist comedy and tragedy without ever missing a step...
HEAR MY SONG. This Anglo-Irish hit, about a nightclub manager (Adrian Dunbar) who hopes to lure a retired Irish tenor (played with well-calculated reserve by Ned Beatty) from exile for one last concert, has for a time a jaunty, quirky air. But director Peter Chelsom allows eccentricity to deteriorate into cuteness...