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...whole ordeal was a hallucinogenic nightmare. Principal photography took an exhausting 238 days. A typhoon destroyed some of the sets. The director mortgaged his house to cover ballooning costs. He fired his first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack. At one point the director told his wife, "I'm thinking of shooting myself." So when it was all over, Francis Ford Coppola figured he had earned the right to a public primal scream. "My film is not a movie," he told the press at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where...
...dull tag line-If Your Mom was an Angel and Your Father was the Devil You'd Be Messed Up Too-and you have yourself a motion picture with quite a bit going against it. That said, I immensely enjoyed Little Nicky, a heartwarming story about the devil (Harvey Keitel, a bit out of place in this classless romp) and his three sons: ne'er-do-wells Adrian (Rhys Ifans) and Cassius (Tom Lister) and wimpy, innocent Nicky (Sandler). This isn't your father's hell; Satan rules justly over the condemned souls, respecting that a natural balance must exist...
...drama of Jesus' story is that he is God and man; his body is passionately at odds with his soul. But many viewers prefer prim Bible stories (hence folks who deplored Harvey Keitel's Brooklynite Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ don't mind Hebrew Apostles who sound like British lords). Sisto gives them an Al Gore-like Jesus, who stiffly recites scriptural lines and whose chief means of showing emotion is shouting. He may laugh and cry, but so rigidly and unnaturally you end up hoping for a reappearance by the comparatively interesting Satan--played by both...
...Safe a priority when he pitched shows to CBS; the network in turn insisted that he act in it (he plays a bomber pilot). "I'm the 800-lb. gorilla that can make this work," he admits. He personally secured the A-list cast, Don Cheadle, Noah Wyle, Harvey Keitel and James Cromwell among them. And he contends the story is no mere period piece. "Even though certain things were dated, it resonates for me," he says. "It's biblical, the sacrifice of Abraham...
...Keitel, playing P.J. Waters, an American who specializes in deprogramming youthful cult followers at the behest of their parents, and Winslet, as Australian Ruth Baron, who specializes mainly in self-absorption, find themselves alone in a shack, arguing for one another's souls, is the substance of Jane Campion's curiously exhilarating and often quite funny film...