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Message in a Bottle
Starring Kevin Costner and
Robin Wright Penn
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Playing at Hollywood 16
t. Valentine’s Day has come and gone, and the
traditional release of a great date-movie is in
evitable. Message in a Bottle was supposed to be
erfect movie to make for a perfect date,
ased on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks,
Mage in a Bottle is a movie about love, both lost
md iound.
Rfter a bad divorce, Teresa Osborne (Wright Penn),
siirsumed with caring for her son and her career at
hKhicago Dibune. While on a brief vacation Teresa
pi on her daily jog when she comes across a bottle
ituci in the sand on a deserted beach. Surprised to
find i note in the bottle, she reads the message thor-
rnghlyand becomes infatuated with the writer’s
Teresa then begins to track down the mystery
l“G.” This premise is rather pathetic. Searching
I man on the basis of a letter is hard to swallow,
|proves to be the first hurdle the film needs to
come.
[Bv this point in the movie, there is really no sus-
;e. The audience knows that the man she is
thing for is Costner. The only mystery left is how
ley will develop a relationship.
■he evidence she finds brings her to a shipbuilding
|wi in North Carolina. She manipulates her way into
■ret Blake’s (Costner) life without revealing her true
■vat ion.
■ostner successfully portrays Garret as a man with-
■ope. Garret lost his wife two years prior to meet-
■Teresa and has not had a relationship with a
■nan since then. To ease his pain. Garret puts all of
■me and energy into sailboat restoration and
■ding.
■n the other hand, Theresa easily wins the heart of
|rret’sfather, Dodge (Paul Newman). Dodge is a
fee man who is content with living near his son.
■/man does an excellent job of adding humor to a
ItlkT dreary love story and, as a Hollywood legend,
|e|tes an unforgettable character in a rather forget-
■e movie.
■eresa originally travels to find out about the true
■i behind the letters, but eventually begins to fall in
love. Garret begins to develop feelings for her and
■snot quite know how to handle them. Theresa’s
failure to tell him the truth about her circumstances
■shadows tension between the two. One day he is
Tng to find out about her obsession to track him
n and will surely be upset. No one is quite sure
it is ■going to happen, but as the movie gets
;er and longer, the audience sees it coming,
e acting in this movie is quite convincing. Cost
and Wright Penn accurately demonstrate the body
;uage and dialogue of new-found love in this film,
de: C-).
By Jeff Kempf
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Photo Courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
|he comedic movie Rushmore, Max (Schwartzman)
jnd Cross (Williams) watch Blume (Murray) dance.
Rushmore
Starring Jason Schwartzman and
Bill Murray
Directed by Wes Anderson
Playing at Hollywood 16
here has never been a more self confident and
cocksure nerd than beekeeper, director and cal
ligrapher Max (Schwartzman).
jHowever, Max’s extracurricular activities interfere
ithhis academic performance and he is put on “sud-
>n death probation” at his posh private school. Rush-
ire Academy.
Instead of concentrating on his classes, Max be-
nes infatuated with a teacher. Miss Cross (Olivia
lliams), and decides to build a giant aquarium on
school’s baseball field in her honor. Steel tycoon,
Blume (Murray), also falls for Miss Cross, inciting
itter war between he and Max.
'Rushmore cops out on greatness by avoiding the
darker, murkier subtexts that pervade and Max re
mains an enigmatic and ambiguous creature.
Max patronizes most of the adults in the film
and, spanning generations, becomes the best friend
to the blandly hilarious Mr. Blume. There is a sense
that this is Max’s world and we are all just living in it
(Grade: B +).
— Jeff Schmidt
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Peter (Livingston) gets another lecture from his boss,
in the Mike Judge’s first live action film Office Space.
Office Space
Starring Ron Livingston and
Jennifer Aniston
Directed by Mike Judge
Playing at Hollywood 16
T he turning point in Peter’s (Livingston) life is
when he visits a hypnotherapist in the beginning
of the film Office Space. Peter, the film’s protago
nist, tells the therapist that because of his job, “Every
single day has been worse than the day before, so that
everyday you see me is the worst day of my life. ”
Peter is then lured into hypnosis and when he
awakens, he skips out on work, cleans fish at his desk
and tells efficiency experts he only works 15 minutes a
day. The candidness with which Peter approaches his
work now prompts the efficiency experts to label him
as a “straight shooter with upper management skills.”
After Peter’s friends, Samir (Ajay Naida) and the un
fortunately named Michael Bolton (David Herman)
are laid off, the three conspire to rip off the company
they work for with a plot they lifted from Superman
III.
Office Space was inspired by the “Milton” cartoons
that appeared on “Saturday Night Live.” “Milton” was
written by Mike Judge, the creative force behind
“Beavis and Butthead” and “King of the Hill,” and Of
fice Space is his first foray into live-action filmmaking.
The results are often hilarious and molded after the
violence in Scorsese and Tarrantino films.
Judge has a way of giving the most mundane char
acters a biting wit and he has the gall to ridicule every
thing from corporate America to waiters at a T.G.I. Fri
day’s knockoff (Grade: B).
— Jeff Schmidt
Blast from the Past
Starring Brendan Fraser and
Alicia Silverstone
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Playing at Hollywood 16
T he Webbers family emerges from a fallout shelter
in Blast from the Past, bringing a whole new
meaning to the term nuclear family.
Calvin (Christopher Walken) and his pregnant wife,
Helen (Sissy Spacek), mistake a crashed jet for a nu
clear attack, and move into a fallout shelter construct
ed by Calvin. In the shelter for the next 35 years, He
len gives birth to Adam (Fraser, his name a play on the
Biblical Adam and the Atom Bomb) and raises him to
appreciate the finer things in life: Rob Roys and Perry
Como.
When Calvin has a heart attack, the now-grown
Adam is sent out into the modern world of drive-bys
and drag queen prostitutes to gather more supplies.
He also wants to meet a girl, and does, in the form of
the bitter Eve (Silverstone). A girl from Pasadena,
Calif, who does not glow.
The film is at its best and funniest when it focuses
on the contrasting eras — the 1960s and the 1990s.
When Adam first hits the streets he sees a black postal
carrier and exclaims, “Oh my lucky stars a negro!”
Fraser is his usual wide-eyed comedic self, but Sil-
verstone’s limitations are becoming apparent.
Blast from the Past is like Pleasantville in reverse,
but it does not quite have the appeal or the astuteness
of that film. Blast from the Past skirts the fine line be
tween good and dull, never finding itself or providing
consistent laughs (Grade: B-).
— Jeff Schmidt
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