Word: delroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have your roommate or maybe some waiter read for you. Here, Ally Sheedy (St. Elmo's Fire and more recently High Art) plays the role you wrote, or maybe it's Mary Alice (star of the Broadway productions of Having Our Say, Fences and The Shadow Box), or Delroy Lindo (Clockers, Malcolm X and Get Shorty), or Martha Plimpton (remember her from Parenthood and Goonies...
...heart it's a romantic comedy, It Happened One Night with an edge. Not so fast. You haven't taken the angels into account. They're ferociously played by diminutive Holly Hunter and massive Delroy Lindo, and Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) has sent them back to Earth to bring these crazy kids together. If these dysfunctionals can be made to function in harmony, there is hope, he thinks, for a world riven by romantic discord. Well, why not? A little dollop of Here Comes Mr. Jordan or Stairway to Heaven never hurt anyone--except that these seraphs have a mean streak...
What ensues is some of the most embarrassingly forced "Odd Couple"-style romantic comedy this side of the Atlantic. The remainder of the plot revolves around two down-and-out angels (played by Delroy Lindo and a wonderfully peppy Holly Hunter) on a mission to unite Celine and Robert in the face of all sorts of adversity, not the least of which is Celine's blood-lusting father...
...film also suffers from being way too long, clocking in at two hours and 20 minutes (including a pointless 15-minute side plot that wastes the great Delroy Lindo in a clumsily caricatured role). Whenever the film begins to drag--which is pretty much whenever Pacino is off screen for more than ten minutes--Hackford throws in some nudity. Pacino excepted, nearly all the main characters get to run around at least once in their birthday suits...
...deal (he built a major airline from scratch) confronting an equally smart and ruthless kidnapper (Gary Sinise) and his dangerously fractious gang. At stake: the life of Tom's cruelly abducted son. The ransom: $2 million. Tom's wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up. In 7 out of 10 cases, the G-man tells Tom, this leads to the child's return. These odds, however, are obviously less than certain. And after a couple of close, sadistic encounters with...