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...nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz, in a wonderfully authentic performance), "but otherwise I'm real normal." Better than normal. He shines in school, plays Cupid between his mom (Cher) and a rowdy old friend (Sam Elliott), and falls into tender love with a City Lights sweetie (Laura Dern) who can see only his good heart and humor. Metaphorically, Rocky is the beautiful soul hidden in every shy teenager with a bad case of zits...
...Captain Cher Nastala and Ian Bickley led the way with 75/72 and 75/78 rounds, respectively, on the par-71 course...
...Hurt's Elephant Man look like the Wild Coyote by comparison. Climcal direction and Monday Night at the Movies screenwriting damn Mask into an abyss of sloppiness and unprofessionalism from which it is redeemed only by Eric Stoltz's tour-deforce in the title role and superb performances by Cher as Rocky's wackedout but tenderhearted Mom and Sam Elliott as her off-again, on-again biker boyfriend...
There is only one problem with this attempt to fashion a contemporary parallel of Renaissance parables: Bogdanovich isn't clever enough to succeed. He prevent us from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended...
Bogdanovich's incessant fumbling stains Mask with the "what-might-have-been" syndrome of a good idea lost in poor direction. Instead of another Elephant Man, which could have showcased the acting talents of Stoltz, Cher and Elliott to their best advantages, we get People presents the Life and Times of Rocky Stoltz...