Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film is an elaborate, fitfully funny Tarantoon about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face...
...know where OSCAR AND LUCINDA is heading--toward the kind of happy, reconciling ending that usually crowns romantic period adventures. Don't get too comfortable with that thought. For this story, adapted from Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel by Laura Jones and directed by Gillian Armstrong, is as wayward as its main characters--comic, fierce, digressive. Its business is to turn sure-thing expectations into a game of chance, and provide us with that rarity--a genuinely eccentric yet deeply insinuating film. --By Richard Schickel...
...evidence, as so much else in this exuberant and, by the way, wonderfully written novel, points in more than one direction. Which is how Barney intended it. He has an answer for everything and everyone. He even anticipates the man or, more likely, the woman who would accuse him of feeling sorry for himself: "Don't knock self-pity. There's a lot to be said for it. Certainly I enjoy it." You will...
Holiday in Your Heart, on ABC, Dec. 14 at 9 p.m., is a good deal more simplistic than A Christmas Memory, but what can you expect? One is based on a story by Truman Capote, the other on a novel co-written by a 14-year-old, country singer LeAnn Rimes, who stars in the drama as herself. This is truly a heart-toasting affair, as Rimes must choose between seeing her grandmother, who has cancer and may not survive an operation planned for the next day, or making her debut at the Grand Ole Opry. The show features Rimes...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...