Word: ribisi
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...GIOVANNI RIBISI, right, has been in good movies, like Saving Private Ryan, and bad movies, like The Postman. He's had more than a few flings with TV. (Who could forget the immortal My Two Dads?) But The Mod Squad is his first experience with a movie made from a TV show. His approach? Take it all very seriously. "Even if I do a porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake...
Starring Natasha Gregson Wagner and Giovanni Ribisi...
Young Joey Milano, played by Giovanni Ribisi, has left his native Brooklyn for what he terms a "vacation" in Louisiana. A rather detached teenage boy with little direction in his life, Joey has shacked up with the alluring Sissel, a seemingly feisty girl whose parents' recent separation makes her feel as though she no longer has a place in the house in which she was raised. Sissel's father, Henry, is fully aware of the fact that she and Joey are "living in sin," but he tacitly approves--in fact, their relationship gives him access to Joey's energy...
...character when she wishes to warm up to Joey, a quality that is polite and playful at the same time it is slyly calculated. And possibly even better is her withdrawal, acted with a cool removal and detachment from her surroundings that translates both mentally and emotionally. Giovanni Ribisi is good as the young Joey, but probably more so because of Peretz's and Ryan's adaptation of the story than anything else. Great though the character may be presented, Ribisi plays him as more ignorant than innocent, a subtle distinction that in the end postpones the viewers' ability...