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...much of a choice," complains the now deceased founder of Buckeye Basin on his head-stone. Such is the comic dilemma of the town pariah, Cassie (Rosanna Arquette). After stabbing the village stud with a fork for loving and leaving her, Cassie is none too popular in her hometown. Having bungled suicide attempt after attempt, she resigns herself to a boring job and a life in limbo...
...irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice Adams. Rosanna grates; the film galls. If Nobody's Fool doesn't get on your nerves...
...real aliens of the book are the Owners, cut off from themselves. Yet hope glimmers. Hooper's voyeuristic passion is transformed when he brings his nymphet back from the O-Zone and she proves intelligent and sensitive. Moura gets to unmask her stud, thereby changing loneliness into at least a healthy lust. Masks are also important to Theroux's satiric intentions. "You can get away with anything in a mask," says Hooper, as he watches a woman strutting in the latest fashion: a face covering, some chains, sandals and nothing else...
Convoluting the plot further, Stone's middle-aged mistress and her dumb-stud pal decide to blackmail the fashion mogul. While trying to videotape Stone murdering his wife, they succeed only in filming the local police chief with a prostitute in his car. Here, the movie attempts to develop the characters, depicting the plotting woman and her friend as too sensitive to watch the alleged murder on the videotape...
...vanity, the dresser. A gust of stardust, and in breezes Molly: impossibly clear complexion (considering her deep-fry diet), hair like Ronald McDonald's, the famous waxed-candy lips semaphoring a smile. Today she is dressed in black, with standard-teen tribal earrings (diamond-encrusted loops, ruby stud in left ear), and as she says, "Hi," she piles her hair into a Wilma Flintstone topknot...