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This time he's Nicholas Van Orton, super-rich investment banker, too busy to pay attention to his ex-wife--"She married a pediatrician or a gynecologist, or a pediatric gynecologist"--and too stuffy to bond with his rakehell brother Conrad (Sean Penn). As a birthday present, Conrad gives Nick a card for CRS, Consumer Recreation Services, an outfit that devises elaborate, personalized games for select clients. And now Nick is the lucky--or doomed--fellow chosen to play. Nick...
Perhaps a relative wants to relieve Nick of his fortune. Or CRS is the ultimate evil conglomerate, or the prank of some zillionaires with a severe weird streak. In The Game anything is possible. But not everything is plausible. By the end, you must accept that dozens of people are willing to put Nick in jeopardy--and that other people, bless 'em, have a Job-like ability to be the butt of a cosmic joke...
...with The Indian Runner and The Crossing Guard. But from friendship, and to help bankroll his directorial dreams, Penn has made half a dozen films in the past year or so. Friendship with the late writer-director John Cassavetes led to She's So Lovely, directed by Cassavetes' son Nick, for which Penn won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. And because Penn once met Terrence Malick in a bar and told him, "Give me a dollar and point the way," he is now acting in The Thin Red Line, Malick's first film since...
...Lovely is the tale of two souls who are "mentally and emotionally retarded," Nick Cassavetes says. "They have one talent: they can love each other really good." Eddie, a small-time punk, is away when the pregnant Maureen is assaulted by a neighbor. Driven nuts by the news of her beating, he shoots a paramedic and is hospitalized for 10 years. In the interim, Maureen has married Joey (John Travolta), but that doesn't matter to Eddie when he gets out. He just wants his honey back...
...Director Nick Cassavetes is less a full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure...