Word: script
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knight says she and Schlesinger are currently focusing on the script for next year's show-the company's 152nd...
...thing that's clear from the glut of contemporary teenpix is that a lot of young talent is being wasted in gonadal junk. If only these kids could find a smart script and a director who knew how to harness their coltish appeal, they might quickly turn promise into achievement. As it happens, the wait wasn't all that long. Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready...
...judge from the script by John August (a comer; no, an arriver), Ralph's Market in Hollywood is stocked with sirloin starlets. Katie Holmes, she of the angel-slut face, is there from Dawson's Creek. Sarah Polley--with Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon eyes and a mouth born to pout (some clever director will cast her as Heather Graham's younger, savvier sister)--is a cashier. Party of Five's dreamboat Scott Wolf is in Polley's check-out line. The film isn't five minutes old and already you suspect you'll be entranced even if it stinks...
Julia Stiles is a straight-A high school senior who just turned 18 two weeks ago. She has a publicist. She has an agent. She co-authored a script that's in rewrites, and she has the leading role in a studio film. All of which makes her remarkably similar to the 289,000 other adolescents currently jockeying to be Hollywood's next big thing. Surely you've noticed how each weekend brings scores of cheaply made movies packed with TV kids from the WB or Fox networks (see previous review). Stiles thinks it's unfair to stereotype the genre...
...First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would use to showcase memorably bent characters. Rapp's idea of character comedy is to have the movie's villain literally caught with her hand in the cookie jar. This little essay on greed and blurred...