Word: fichtner
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...Mohr), a pair of popular television actors, beginning with their attempt to lure Ronna into a sting operation in exchange for absolution from a previous violation of the law. The setup becomes secondary as they are propositioned by a truly quirky couple, the cop that arranges the sting (William Fichtner) and his wife (Jane Krakowski), and then discover they share a common love interest. This latter revelation brings Adam and Zack back into Ronna's world at the rave, where they find themselves in a new violation...
...Adam (Scott Wolf) andZack (Jay Mohr), a pair of popular televisionactors, beginning with their attempt to lure Ronnainto a sting operation in exchange for absolutionfrom a previous violation of the law. The setupbecomes secondary as they are propositioned by atruly quirky couple, the cop that arranges thesting (William Fichtner) and his wife (JaneKrakowski( and then discover they share a commonlove interest. This latter revelation brings Adamand Zack back into Ronna's world at the rave,where they find themselves in a new violation ofthe...
...worth following because it forks into a second story--Simon and his friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) go to a Vegas lap-dance parlor and play with gunfire--and a third, involving Adam, Zack and a narc (William Fichtner) who comes on to them like a Mark Fuhrman on Viagra. Though some of these folks shade into their 30s, all act like teenagers. The movie is set on Christmas Eve, but emotionally it's Mischief Night, when kids will do anything for the freewheeling hell of it. They fool around as if there were no tomorrow, not caring that tomorrow...
...pros like Harris and Pendleton are considerable. So are the pleasures of encountering more serious drama than is common on Broadway. But nothing makes off-Broadway more exciting than the emergence of new talent, the sense of a career being born. That hope is fulfilled to overflowing by Fichtner and Rapp, who both combine exhilarating talent with terrifying insight into how destruction can serve as a mask for self-destruction...
...Fiery Furnace, Fichtner's character is confronted with having abused his wife and sons for years by a scholarly brother-in-law who pulls out a gun. Fichtner sinks into a chair, stares defiantly everywhere else and finally at his accuser, then thrusts his head forward straight into the barrel of the weapon. He conveys in the same swift deed a last spasm of dare-you defiance and a willing embrace of an end to his own pain. Although almost everything in Timothy Mason's stylistically messy melodrama has the power to surprise, nothing else comes close to that startling...