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...WITHOUT A FACE (1993). In the book a deformed man is befriended by -- and has sex with -- a troubled boy. In Mel Gibson's movie...
DIRECTOR: MEL GIBSON...
...title is a misnomer. Justin McLeod does not lack a face. His problem is that he has two of them. His right profile has been grossly disfigured in an auto accident, but the opposite side is pure Mel Gibson, handsome and, you'll be relieved to know, getting most of the screen time. It symbolizes, pretty obviously, a deeper split in his personality, the unmarked side representing the idealistic young teacher he once was, the twisted side the bitter recluse he has become...
...Gibson, directing for the first time, presents this deeply wet material in a reasonably cool and dry manner. But his film is in desperate need of smarm busting -- something, anything that would relieve the familiarity of its characters, the predictability of its structure, the bland failure to challenge its perfect correctness of outlook...
Updated how: In film, Mel Gibson as young James Garner, James Garner as older James Garner