Word: holmesã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Holmes?? habit has been made possible and perpetuated by Ron Lanius, played by Sweet Home Alabama’s Josh Lucas as a charismatically psychotic son-of-a-bitch, who keeps Holmes around to humiliate whenever an occasion arises. Lanius and his gang, including Dylan McDermott’s David Lind, a mysterious biker with possible psychotic tendencies, hang out at a drug den on Wonderland Avenue...
Through a variety of mysterious circumstances, the drug gang, with Holmes?? willing or unwilling assistance, rob the house of Holmes?? other dealer, the millionaire club owner Eddie Nash, a role in which Eric Bogosian tries to top his cartoonish villain in Under Siege 2. Although he doesn’t quite achieve that formidable goal, he does create a sense of empathy for a truly terrible man, aided by his Scarface-like rise from immigrant to mob kingpin...
...revenge for the robbery, Nash, with Holmes?? assistance (whether willing or not is left unclear), sends his men to the drug den on Wonderland and they create a grisly bloodbath rivaled only by the Manson Family murder...
...Holmes?? relative guilt in both actions is questioned in Rashomon-like flashbacks that see the past through very different perspectives. Until the very end, we are only clear about the strong sleaziness that pervades this...
...only trait keeping him from becoming a total loser is his very real love for his 19-year-old mistress Dawn Schiller, played by Kate Bosworth, and Holmes?? continuing affection for his ex-wife, Sharon, played by Lisa Kudrow with a stronger sense of pathos than “Friends” has ever allowed her to express...