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...Willis and Matthew Perry, the film tells the story of what happens when your unassuming dentist Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) finds that his new next-door neighbor is former notorious hitman Jimmy the Tulip (Willis). What ensues is a madcap plot involving the fact that Jimmy, his former boss Janni Gogolak (Kevin Pollack) and his estranged wife Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge) have ten million dollars tied up in an account only all three can sign for; of course, if anyone dies among the three, only the remaining signatures are needed. Jimmy on the other hand is an unwilling captive to these...
What makes this drab case history into a compassionate and likable film is the rare combination of fresh young talents that Italian-born Producer Joseph Janni (Darling; Far from the Madding Crowd) has recruited from British television. Terence Stamp, 28, is the only member of the company with any movie experience to speak of. John Bindon, 24, is an ex-merchant seaman who has never even acted before. Poor Cow is also the first film for TV Director Kenneth Loach, 30, who has achieved a personal, idiosyncratic immediacy with a hand-held camera and ad-libbed dialogue that sounds natural...
...movie, though, belongs to 24-year-old Carol White, another émigré from TV. She invites inevitable comparison with Julie Christie; Producer Janni "discovered" both of them, and there is a notable physical resemblance. Miss White's range as an actress remains to be tested, but the gamut she runs here is already fairly long-slob and sexpot, worried mother and girl in love. She is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope by riding with the punches-whether they come from Fate or some other...
Welcome to MGM. Because of Hollywood's international outlook, Britain's Joseph Janni, producer of Darling, now looks there rather than to England. "If I go to J. Arthur Rank with a film idea, they consider me a nuisance," he claims. "If I go to MGM, I am welcomed." France's Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) has been signed to a multipicture contract at United Artists, as has Polanski at Paramount. The Iron Curtain countries are a continuing source of new talent, and Hollywood studios have dangled fat contracts before Czechoslovakia's Jan Radar...
...From the Madding Crowd, the three-hour, full color, Cinerama epic that opened here last week, was, believe it or not, made by the same production team that turned out Darling two years ago. Producer Joseph Janni, director John Schlesinger, and screenwriter Frederic Raphael marked Darling--in black-and-white--with an economy of action, quick cuts, and some deft, telling punches at society's flabby midsection. The film was also marked by Julie Christie...
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