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...black girl; the girl's father, Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson), retaliates with murder; he goes on trial in a racially volatile atmosphere. Enter his idealistic young lawyer, Jake (Matthew McConaughey); his mentor, Lucien (Donald Sutherland); the ruthless prosecutor (Kevin Spacey); and a Klan member or two (e.g. Kiefer Sutherland)--the story's ready-made. Sandra Bullock weaves her way through the story as Jake's indispensable assistant...
...children miss out on something essential? They don't seem to think so. "Sometimes I like playing school," confides Lydia Kiefer, 6. "I'll get up in the morning, get my backpack, put some books in it, come downstairs, and sit down at my little brown table and pretend I have a teacher and other kids next to me." She pauses to think. "But I'm not so sure it would be so fun in real life...
...everyone must have hoped was the perfect reverse spin on City Slickers. In The Cowboy Way, the two rubes have many stupid misadventures as they try to save a young woman from white slavery. The sheer laziness of the writing, direction and especially the playing by Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland is stunning. The stars seem to be improvising much of the time and winking to the audience, "Hey, folks, we're having a lot of fun!" Hey, guys...
...much the worse for the menu. It's hard to see this show without reflecting that Boyd may turn out to have been the major artist that, with the single exception of Anselm Kiefer, '80s Neoexpressionism never had. Is everything of his on the same level? By no means: curator Barry Pearce has edited Boyd's long and effusive output sharply, and even so there are some real clinkers among the more recent work. Yet one remains convinced of a deep, solid achievement, not only in painting but also in sculpture -- for some of Boyd's ceramic work is truly...
Really, the most striking feature about this film is its uncanny resemblance to the "Young Guns" series. Consider the parallels: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and friends are bad boys on horse with semi-noble causes, murdering profusely to get what they want, and grinning the whole time so as to enchant the ladies both of the screen and the audience (at one point, I heard a lass Behind me gush, "Ommigod! She gets to kiss Charlie Sheeeen!"). Yet I must commend director Stephen Herek for being so economical. It's always good to see another saved-from-the-executioner...