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...gimmicky firstyear high school students steal scenes as well. The one with the stomach flu (Felix Cheung) and the pretentious actress (Karin Lewicki) are the most memorable...
Milwaukee's Chem-Bio Corp. was charged with reckless homicide for allegedly missing what experts called unmistakable signs of cancer on the Pap smears of two women. Dolores Geary and Karin Smith died of cervical cancer in 1993, years after the Pap smears were allegedly misread. Filing criminal charges in a negligence case is extremely rare. The families of both victims had already won multimillion-dollar settlements from the lab and the women's HMO, Family Health Plan...
Meanwhile, the romantic element asserts itself in the form of Jack Dale (Steve Raizes), Karin's long-lost high school sweetheart. After 15 years, Jack returns to Las Colinas with his soon-to-be third wife, Virginia (Jenni Paredes), a suitably annoying blonde Southern bimbo archetype. Jack has promised to take Virginia to the cotillion that evening and to announce their engagement at a luncheon the next day. His highpowered corporate boss, a forceful cellular presence, seems to have other plans...
Lacking the guts to say no to his boss or break the bad news to Virginia, Jack asks for Karin's help. He has to skip the cotillion, get to California for a business meeting, and return in time for the luncheon the next day, all without Virginia's knowledge. In spite of herself, Karin has Virginia out cold within minutes. Grandmother Mallard, imbibing nearly half a bottle of Scotch between her shampoo and set, passes on to a better world. With two bodies and two deep breaths, the action is rolling...
Nobody's You's acting is competent, with a few real stand-outs. Cowan gives an excellent performance as Karin; her presence and thoughtfulness as an actress serve well the beautician's combination of self-confidence and vulnerability. Raizes holds his own as Jack, though at times his character's ineffectual nature seems a bit forced. Paredes is exuberent as the effervescent Virginia, though unfortunately her energy sometimes overwhelms her sense of timing and delivery. Liz Amberg and Rosalie Parker are memorable as the ill, subsequently dead Grandmother Mallard and the sexually charged, Coke-guzzling Romanian receptionist. Brett Conner deserves...