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...nothing beats an overnight expedition. Fifth-grader Ryan Gregson spots a herd of deer in a meadow and exclaims, "Wow, I didn't know there were so many deer so close to where I live." And he won't soon forget...
...Kids was a glum screed about teens, drugs and unsafe sex. At least in Paradise, from a novel by ex-con Eddie Little, the lowlifes have some fun shooting up and stealing. Here two career criminals (James Woods and Melanie Griffith) adopt a young couple (Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner) into la dolce venom. There's a droll tough love in this inversion of Father Knows Best, where Dad is given to arias of rage, Mom kills people, Bud and Princess do junk. The tone is naturalism run amuck: two-ton emoting, closeups of syringes in groins. Enough...
Starring Natasha Gregson Wagner and Giovanni Ribisi...
Part of what makes this development so compelling is the very effective performance of Natasha Gregson Wagner as Sissel. She brings a wonderfully devilish aspect to her character when she wishes to warm up to Joey, a quality that is polite and playful at the same time it is slyly calculated. And possibly even better is her withdrawal, acted with a cool removal and detachment from her surroundings that translates both mentally and emotionally. Giovanni Ribisi is good as the young Joey, but probably more so because of Peretz's and Ryan's adaptation of the story than anything else...
...darkness that contains the promise of redemption (or at least responsible adulthood) for his wayward protagonist. We don't believe it for a second. We do, however, believe in the talent of his actors. The vengeful women--a coolly elegant Heather Graham and a flat-voiced, sharp-minded Natasha Gregson Wagner--are more than mere accompanists to Downey's tour de force; they're full-scale partners, finding arresting dissonances in this unfinished chamber piece...