Word: jon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miss Jon", Meyer said. "He added tremendous value for Harvard...
...grizzled Gene Hackman). Dean lives the perfect American life with a loving wife, wonderful children, a beautiful house and his prized juice blender. But everything changes when a bird-watcher (Jason Lee) catches the execution of a venerable U.S. Congressman by the head of the National Security Agency (Jon Voight). Soon, Dean is unknowingly in possession of the video and is the target of surveillance and public defamation. Underlying this story is a controversial congressional bill in response to the threat of terrorism that would legalize unwarranted observation by the government of any suspected individual...
VERY BAD THINGS Starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz Directed by Peter Berg Polygram Films...
...Flies or anything else in the "civilzed people aren't really so civilized" genre. Perhaps the real horror of this movie is how the clich‚--which, like the Jaws or the "Jason" serieses, will never go away--has come back to terrorize us once again. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) are a happy couple, soon to be married. Kyle goes with his buddies to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. They do a lot of drinking and a little murdering. They return. Their sins themselves do not haunt them, but rather the realization that...
Presumably, Very Bad Things will be ignored by all but those who evaluate movies in terms of shock and gore. Jon Favreau and the other talented people involved in this movie will presumably go on to, if not Great, at least Somewhat Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however...